The document discusses various topics including scat singing in jazz, movie scenes and plot details, urban legends, historical figures and events, and notable people from literature and history. It touches on films like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Rosemary's Baby, and The Pride of Yankees. It also mentions the Lincoln Memorial statue, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, Lou Gehrig, and Kubla Khan. Several questions are posed and answered about these different topics in 3 sentences or less.

1. Infinite Pounce

2. 1
• Although one would expect the director to
take the photo especially for the movie, it was
actually a photo taken from 1923 with the
actor’s head added in.
• Who replaced the guy in the next picture and
for which movie?

5. • Jack Nicholson, The Shining.

6. 2
• Supposed model of something being built for
a company named Pink Visual. What is being
built? Why is it “different” from the others?
Image in next slide.

9. • 2012 Bunker for their stars.

10. 3
• Connect:
• Escalator
• Heroin
• Kerosene
• Zipper
• Yo-yo
• Xerox

12. • Genericized trademarks

13. 4
• X lies in far West Texas. According to the 2010 census
the city's population is 649,121. X is the nineteenth
most populous city in the United States of America and
the sixth most populous city in the state of Texas.In
2010 X was awarded an All-America City Award, the
oldest community-recognition program in the United
States.
• We know X best for a massacre at a church here. How
it happened, who was there, how many got killed and
who killed them - changes depending on who's telling
the story.
• X?

15. • El Paso, Texas.
Wedding chapel massacre from Kill Bill

16. 5
• The sunrise problem can be expressed as
follows: "What is the probability that the sun
will rise tomorrow?"
• The sunrise problem illustrates the difficulty of
using probability theory when evaluating the
plausibility of statements or beliefs.
• Which mathematician introduced this
problem in the 18th century?

18. • Pierre-Simon Laplace

19. 6
• Born in Kerala, India. Sagittarius. Supposedly
blessed by Agni.
• Image in next slide

22. • Dhalsim

23. 7
• The X was the creation of Camden, New Jersey, chemical
company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., whose
family owned and operated the R.M. Hollingshead
Corporation chemical plant in Camden.
• Hollingshead's X opened in New Jersey June 6, 1933, on
Admiral Wilson Boulevard at the Airport Circle in
Pennsauken, a short distance from Cooper River Park. It
offered 400 slots. He advertised his X with the slogan, "The
whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the
children are.”
• X?

24. • Drive in theatre.

25. 8
• The company gives away The Clean Stick
Award to people who do this. They usually do
this to find the answer to a question
popularized by their ads. Since 1970, they
have received more than 20,000 letters from
children who believe they have the answer.
• Funda.

27. • How many licks does it take to get to the
center of a Tootsie Pop?
• According to the company, given to people
who get to the center without giving in to the
temptation to bite.

28. 9
• And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling
cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be
razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags
shall blink until the end of days.
• from The Book of X, 12:10
• And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The
bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and
thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its
strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered
in horror.
• from The Book of X, 7:15
• X?

30. • Book of Mozilla
quotes seen on entering about:mozilla on
Firefox.

31. 10
• X not only said he wanted a role in The
Expendables 3, but that director Darren
Aronofsky offered him the lead in The Wrestler.
Aronofsky quickly took to Twitter to deny X’s
claims.
• X that he turned it down. The reason?
“The problem is, if I had done it, Hollywood would
have looked at it as a joke.”
X has previously lied about being offered a position
to play bass for Metallica.
X?

33. • Hulk Hogan

34. 11
• X was devised by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn to
explain his notion of triolectics, his refinement on the
Marxian concept of dialectics. The game purports to
deconstruct the confrontational and bi-polar nature of
the conventional version as an analogy of class struggle
in which there stands a signifier of the state and media
apparatus, posturing as a neutral arbitrator in the
political process of ongoing class struggle.
• The May 2010 X held at Haggerston Park ended with
Labour winning 0-2-3 to the Conservatives and Lib-
Dems.
• X?

36. • Three sided football

37. 12
What did this comic supposedly inspire?

39. • Inception

40. 13
• Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television
equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the
collection of impressionist paintings owned by his
corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van
Gogh. He couldn’t figure out whom to award the sale to.
• Christie's went to the 11-year-old twin daughters of the
international director of Christie's Impressionist and
Modern Art Department Nicholas Maclean, who suggested
”________" because "Everybody expects you to choose
’____'." Sotheby's said that had no particular strategy, but
went with ”_____". Christie’s won and sold the $20 million
collection, with millions of dollars of commission for the
auction house.
• Funda.

42. • Auction house rock-paper-scissor match.

43. 14
• Connect

45. • Charles Manson
• The Beatles- “Helter Skelter”
• Marilyn Manson
• Polanski and Tate. Tate was murdered by him.

46. 15
• _____ ______:Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa
Filmworks which deals with X‘s modern-day struggle to protect
the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from vampires with the
help of Mexican wrestler El Santo.
• Ultra______! is a comedy from 2003 produced by LeisureSuit
Media in which X comes to modern day New York City to usher in
2000 years of peace. When he discovers that he is unable to relate
to modern youth, he dons a superhero costume and appears to the
world as Ultra______!
• _____ ______ Superstar is a 1973 American musical film directed
by Norman Jewison. A film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd
Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name, the film stars Ted
Neeley, Carl Anderson and Yvonne Elliman. Ted Neeley was
nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of X.
• Who was the subject of all these movies?

49. Theme Round
Answers

50. Example

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68. Infinite Pounce II

69. 1
• In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvization
with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or
without words at all. Scat singing gives singers the
ability to improvised melodies and rhythms, to
create the equivalent of an instrumental solo
using their voice.
• This show was named after Frank Sinatra’s scat at
the end of his recordings of “Strangers in the
Night”.
• Which show/eponymous character?

71. • Scooby Doo

72. 2
“Actually, it's not a question of room, it's a question of
buoyancy.”
X said this about a certain “problem” fans had with a
part in his film. He then enlisted The Mythbusters to
defend his stance. Mythbusters decided to find out for
themselves whether or not X’s buoyancy theory was
actually correct. And they proved him wrong.
X then tried to save face and said that it had to happen
that way because it was in the script.
What did they prove?

74. • They proved that both Jack and Rose could
have got on the raft at the end of Titanic.

75. 3
• Scrapped concept model for what? (Another
image next slide)

78. • Gun wielding dino-human hybrids in Jurassic
Park IV

79. 4
• Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, was an outlaw and member of
The Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh
likely met Robert Leroy Parker after Parker was released
from prison around 1896. Together with the other
members of "The Wild Bunch" gang, they performed the
longest string of successful train and bank robberies in
American history.
• Longabaugh is better known to us by a name he adopted
when he was in a jail in ________, Wyoming. Robert
Redford played him in a 1969 American Western.
Something that takes place every year in Utah was
renamed after Redford’s character.
• How do we better know Longabaugh?

81. • The Sundance Kid.
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was the
‘69 movie and Sundance Film Festival, the
event.

83. 5
• John Wright
• Thomas Wintour,
• Thomas Percy
• Robert Keyes
• Thomas Bates
• Robert Wintour
• Christopher Wright
• John Grant
• Sir Ambrose Rookwood
• Sir Everard Digby
• Francis Tresham.
• Obvious one has been removed. What did they all do/plan to do?

85. • Gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes has been
removed.

86. 6
• X is a 1942 American Film directed by Sam Wood and
starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Walter
Brennan. It was a tribute to Y. The film starred Babe
Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig and Bill Dickey as well.
It was nominated for 11 Oscars winning and for Editing.
Gary Cooper who played Y was right handed and Y left
handed so many scenes were shot and then prints
reversed. Y also starred in the 1938 western film
Rawhide. Researchers presented a paper in 2006 after
analyzing this movie and concluded that “Examination
of Rawhide showed that Y functioned normally in
January 1936.”
• X, Y?

88. • The Pride of the Yankees, Lou Grehig

89. 7
• It has been the center of two urban legends.
• First one, that the face of General Robert E
Lee was carved onto the back, and looks back
across the Potomac towards his former home
Arlington House.
• Another legend says that _______ is shown
using sign language to represent, with his left
and right hand showing his initials.
• What am I talking about?

91. • The Lincoln Memorial Statue

92. 8
Which movie is being referred to here? [Image
in next slide]

95. • Rosemary’s Baby

96. 9
• X was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in
China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to
the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū, which he renamed
Dàdū, the present-day Beijing. In 2012, X was made a World
Heritage Site. X was also visited by Marco Polo.
• In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about X in Purchas his
Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream.
The dream caused him to begin the poem known as 'Kubla
Khan'. Unfortunately Coleridge's writing was interrupted by
an unnamed "man from Porlock," causing him to forget
much of the dream, but his images of X became one of the
best-known poems in the English language.

98. • Xanadu

99. 10
Connect.
• Geoff Horsfield
• Nenȇ
• Bobby Moore
• Francisco Franco
• Adolf Hitler
• Mao Zedong
• Bruce Lee
• Lance Armstrong

101. • They all have Monorchism, i.e one ball.

102. 11
• Chrysippus- after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it
attempt to feed on figs.
• Thomas Urquhart,
the Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator
of François Rabelais's writings into English- upon
hearing that Charles II had taken the throne.
• In 1989, Ole Bentzen, a Danish audiologist, while
watching A Fish Called Wanda.
• At the end of the film Mary Poppins, Mr. Dawes, Sr.
• What happened to them?

104. • They died laughing.

105. 12
• Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Y illustrated
the term "X" with this story:
• It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about
two men in a train. One man says "What's that package
up there in the baggage rack?", and the other answers,
"Oh, that's a X". The first one asks "What's a X?"
"Well", the other man says, "It's an apparatus for
trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands". The first man
says, "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands",
and the other one answers, "Well, then that's no X!" So
you see, a X is nothing at all.
• What is X?

107. • X-MacGuffin
• Y-Hitchcock

108. 13
• This language was created by David J Peterson, a member of the Language
Creation Society. David J. Peterson and his development of the language
were featured on an April 8, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List. Peterson
drew inspiration from the writer’s description of the language, as well as
from such languages as Russian, Turkish, Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili.
• David Peterson has said that "You know, most people probably don’t really
know what Arabic actually sounds like, so to an untrained ear, it might
sound like Arabic. To someone who knows Arabic, it doesn’t. I tend to
think of the sound as a mix between Arabic (minus the distinctive
pharyngeals) and Spanish, due to the dental consonants.“
• The name of the language which is also the name of the people who speak
it, was listed fourth in a list of words from television most used on the
Internet, compiled in September 2012 by Global Language Monitor.
• Which language? Show gets you no points.

110. • Dothraki from Game of Thrones

111. 14
• When typing the initials in X for New York City,
"NYC", the three resulting glyphs are an eye, a
heart, and a city skyline: "I Love New York." A
spokesperson for the company explained that
"typographers took pains to ensure that the
image corresponding with the capital letters NYC
was a pleasant one". This occurred after _______
accidentally associated "NYC" with a poison
(death) symbol, a Jewish Star of David, and a
thumbs-up, creating what appeared to some
people as an endorsement of anti-Semitism.

113. • X-Webdings

114. 15
• X(23 March 1893 – 4 January 1974) was
an Indian inventor and engineer who is also
referred to as the Edison of India. He is credited
with the manufacture of the first electric motor in
India. His contributions were primarily industrial
but also span the fields of electrical, mechanical,
agricultural (Hybrid cultivation) and automobile
engineering. He had only primary education but
excelled as a versatile genius. Among his hobbies
was train travel to nearby cities.
• Who?

116. • G.D. Naidu :D

117. LVC

118. +35/-17

119. +30/-15

120. +25/-13

121. +20/-10

122. +15/-7

123. +10/-5

124. +5/0

125. ANSWERS

126. • Musicians/band names inspired from literature.
• 1)Holly Golightly
• 2)Moby
• 3) Veruca Salt
• 4) Opeth (derived from the word "Opet," taken
from the Wilbur Smith novel The Sunbird)
• 5) Velvet Underground
• 6) The Doors
• 7)Aerosmith