This document summarizes information about several topics: 1) It discusses the British musician Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock band Queen, known for his powerful vocals and flamboyant stage persona. 2) It mentions the game "Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock" made famous by The Big Bang Theory. 3) It notes that Joseph Heller coined the term "Catch-22" in his novel of the same name about absurd rules faced by soldiers in World War II.

1. GREY MATTERS

2. 1.
• X, born Farrokh Bulsara, was a British musician, record
producer, and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead
vocalist and lyricist of a popular rock band.
• As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage
persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range.
• He continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the
history of popular music, characterised as "one of rock's
greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the
greatest voices in all of music".

3. Answer
Freddie mercury

4. 2.

5. Answer
• Rock – paper – scissors - lizard - spock
( Made famous by The Big Bang Theory)

6. 3.

7. Answer
• Justice league of America

8. 4.
• “..He has no ambition and no energy. He will not
even go out of his way to verify his own solutions,
and would rather be considered wrong than take the
trouble to prove himself right. Again and again I have
taken a problem to him, and have received an
explanation which has afterwards proved to be the
correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of
working out the practical points...”
— X, speaking of his brother Y.

9. Answer
X - Sherlock Holmes
Y - Mycroft Holmes

10. 5.
• A _____ is a paradoxical situation from which an
individual cannot escape because of contradictory
rules.
• ____s often result from rules, regulations, or
procedures that an individual is subject to but has no
control over because to fight the rule is to accept it.
• Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel of the
same name, which describes absurd bureaucratic
constraints on soldiers in World War II.

11. Answer
Catch 22

12. 6.
Connect
A. Jana gana mana
B. Amar Sonar Bangla
C. Sri Lanka Matha

13. Answer
Rabrindranath Tagore

14. 7.
Connect
• Anne of Green Gables
• Oliver Twist
• A little princess
• Tom Sawyer
• Harry Potter
• Heidi
• Mowgli
• Jane Eyre

15. Answer
• All are books whose protagonists are orphans.

16. 8.
• Better known by his pen name X, Munroe was
a British writer who is considered a master of
the short story, and often compared to O.
Henry and Dorothy Parker.
• The pen name X may be a reference to a
character in the poem Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyam.
• However, X may also or instead be a reference
to the South American monkey of that name.

17. Answer
Saki

18. 9.
• This picture titled “The
Red Vineyards near
Arles” is an oil painting
by the Dutch painter
Vincent Van Gogh. It was
sold in 1890 for 400
Francs.
• Why was this picture
very special to Van
Gogh?

19. Answer
• It is the only piece sold by the artist while he
was alive.

20. 10.
• X is one of the 25 districts that make up the city of
Seoul in South Korea. X literally means ‘South of the
river’.
• X is considered as the national capital of education
and is known for its heavily concentrated wealth and
high standards of living.
• The city inspired something that became world
famous.

21. Answer
Gangnam District

22. 11.
• Mr. Tushar read an article in the TOI in 1995 that
something (X) which rightfully belongs to his
family was stored in the Bank of Odisha for 49
years.
• The bank managers and the Government denied
it. After months of court hearings and a hunger
strike, the Supreme court finally ruled that X was
authentic and restored it to Mr. Tushar’s family.
• This incident inspired a movie called Road to
Sangam (2009).

23. Answer
• X – Gandhiji’s Ashes
• Mr. Tushar Gandhi is the
Mahatma’s great
grandson.

24. 12.

25. Answer
Alfred Hitchcock cameos

26. 13.
• X is an extreme or irrational fear of heights,
especially when one is not particularly high up. It
belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space
and motion discomfort.
• Y is often used incorrectly to describe a fear of
heights, but it is more accurately a spinning sensation
that occurs when one is not actually spinning.
• Y is a 1958 American psychological thriller
film by Alfred Hitchcock.

27. Answer
• X – Acrophobia
• Y - Vertigo

28. 14.

29. Answer
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Mike Tyson

30. 15.

31. Answer
• Groucho Glasses
(named after comedian Groucho Marx)

32. 16.

33. Answer
• The most interesting man in the world

34. 17.
• Name all the 7 Indian movies in IMDB top 250.
• Two films, though having Indian actors and
Indian subjects, were foreign productions.

35. Answer
• Taare Zameen Par (#119)
• 3 idiots (#126)
• Rang de Basanti (#159)
• Gandhi (#198)
• Lagaan (#225)
• Slumdog Millionaire (#238)
• Swades (#249)

36. 18.
• X is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
• It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love
in which the Party attempts to subject a
prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare,
fear or phobia.

37. Answer
• Room 101

38. 19.
• The X effect is contradictory interpretations of
the same event by different people.
• The phrase derives from the movie X, where
four witnesses' accounts of a murder are all
different.
• The Simpsons, Spongebob, Virumaandi,
Powerpuff Girls, How I met your mother, have
all used this effect.

39. Answer
• The Rashomon
Effect

40. 20.
• The X Tower is a memorial to John Lennon
from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey
Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík,
Iceland.
• It consists of a tall tower of light, projected
from a white stone monument that has the
words “X" carved into it in 24 languages.
• These words, and the name of the tower, are a
reference to Lennon's peace anthem .

41. Answer
The Imagine Peace Tower