Instincts gen finals (final)

4 Rounds
• Written-1
• Dries-1
• Written-2
• Dries-2

Written Round -1
Each question has 2 parts. 5 points for each part
10 points for the theme

The 2 parts of each question are connected in a way. The connection is
the theme.

1.
X was the son of the wandering sage Parashar and fisherman's
daughter Satyavati, father of Dhritarashtra, Pandu, and Vidur; when
Ambika and Ambalika were sent to him to bear children, his ugliness
caused Ambika to close her eyes (resulting in Dhritarashtra's blindness)
and made Ambalika turn pale (resulting in Pandu's physical infirmity).

The Modified Scheme of Elementary Education or Madras Scheme of
Elementary Education dubbed by its critics as Kula Kalvi Thittam, was
an abortive attempt at education reform introduced by the Indian
National Congress Government of the Madras State, led by Y in 1953.
The scheme proposed the introduction of two shifts or sessions in
elementary schools. In one session regular teaching would be done and
during the second session, the students would be sent home to learn
the occupations of their parents. It became controversial and was
accused of being a casteist scheme to perpetuate the caste hierarchy.
The controversy forced Y to resign from the government.

2.
X who suffered from a curse that says he would die if he ever engaged
in sexual intercourse (he eventually died when he had sex with his
second wife); his two wives took advantage of a spell through which
they bore the sons of the gods.

This is “Bhagwanji” and he died in
Faizabad, UP in the year 1985. It is said
that Bhagwanji looked uncannily like Y and
his writing matched that of Y. On at least
four separate occasions, Bhagwanji himself
admitted that he was in fact Y but that it
was in the best interest of the nation that
he stay anonymous.

3.
Barring Krishna, X was most respected as an adviser by the Pandavas,
whom he forewarned on various occasions of Duryodhana's plots to
exterminate them, such as Duryodhana's plan to burn them alive in the
house of wax. Excepting the prince Vikarna, X was the only one who
protested against the humiliation of Draupadi in the Kaurava court. In
that moment, Duryodhana viciously rebuked X, calling him ungrateful.
When Krishna visited Hastinapura as a peace emissary of the Pandavas,
he shunned Duryodhana's offer to stay in the royal palace, preferring
instead the home of X, on account of him being the only neutral man in
the Kaurava court.

Y dodged death and had miraculously escaped near fatal disasters in
his life, not once, but thrice. First he survived the Bubonic plague. Then
within two months of Mahatma's assassination, Y suffered a massive
heart attack, which he was later to attribute to the bottled up grief
caused by Gandhiji's death. Timely action and combined efforts of his
daughter, secretary and nurse saved his life. Again, in 1949 the plane he
was travelling in developed some engine snag and lost radio contact
before making emergency landing in some desert area of Rajasthan.
When he returned to Delhi after the mishap, he received rousing
welcome and standing ovation in the parliament of India.

4.
The story of X's birth is related dramatically in Mahabharata.
Bharadwaja went with his companions to the Ganga River to perform
his ablutions. There he beheld a beautiful apsara named Ghritachi who
had come to bathe. The sage was overcome by desire, causing him to
produce a reproductive fluid. Bharadwaja Muni captured the fluid in a
vessel called a X, and X himself sprang from the fluid thus preserved. X
would later boast that he had sprung from Bharadwaja without ever
having been in a womb. X spent his youth in poverty, but studied
Dharma and military arts such as archery, in which he gained expertise.

Bihar in the 1970s became the testing ground for sampoorna kranti. In
the 1930s and 40s, Y was the leader idealistic youth looked up to. He,
perhaps, saw the same spirit of idealism and rebellion in the students
who came out on the streets against corruption in high places. After
leaving socialist politics for Vinoba Bhave’s Sarvodaya movement, Y had
consistently expressed his disillusionment with political parties, and
argued for a communitarian democracy. When Indira Gandhi declared
the Emergency in 1975, Y’s focus shifted to rescuing democracy from
authoritarian rule.

5.
It is said that in some military campaign Gandhara came under attack
from Hastinapur. Hastinapur conquered Gandhara, killed the king
Achala Suvala, and imprisoned all the male members of his line, saying
that line was full of adharma. This included X and his 100 brothers.
Since all of them were sparsely fed (with one grain of rice each per day)
in the prison, the family decided that at least one of them could survive
and gave all the rice to X, the most cunning of them all, so that he
could live on to take revenge. In some stories, X carves from the bones
of his dead parents ___ that will never lose him a game.

Excerpt from “The Dramatic Decade”:
“It is believed that Y played an important role in the decision to declare
the Emergency: it was his suggestion, and Indira Gandhi acted on it. In
fact, Indira Gandhi told me subsequently that she was not even aware
of the constitutional provisions allowing for the declaration of a state of
Emergency on grounds of internal disturbance, particularly since a state
of Emergency had already been proclaimed as a consequence of the
Indo-Pak conflict in 1971.”
Y was then the chief minister of West Bengal.

6.
Other names for X:
• Vaikartana - the one who is related/belonging to the Hindu solar deity SuryaSuryaputra - son of
Surya
• Parashurama Shishya - disciple of Parashurama
• Angaraj - King of Anga
• Vijaya Dhari - one who wields Vijaya bow
• Adhirathi - son of Adhiratha
• Daanveer - the hero possessing undying charitable nature
• Daanshoor - one who fought like a true warrior
• Vrisha - one who is truthful in speech, engaged in penances, observant of vows, and kind even to
enemies
• Sūtaputra - son of a Sūta or belonging to charioteer caste
• Kaunteya - son of Kunti

FITB and ID Y
"The ____ will mirror faithfully the views of Hindustan's Muslims and
the All Hindustan Muslim League in all its activities: economic,
educational and social and more particularly political, throughout the
country fearlessly and independently and while its policy will be, no
doubt, mainly to advocate and champion the cause of the Muslims and
the policy and programme of the All Hindustan Muslim League, it will
not neglect the cause and welfare of the peoples of this sub-continent
generally“
- Y, in the year 1941.

1.
X was the son of the wandering sage Parashar and fisherman's
daughter Satyavati, father of Dhritarashtra, Pandu, and Vidur; when
Ambika and Ambalika were sent to him to be inseminated, his ugliness
caused Ambika to close her eyes (resulting in Dhritarashtra's blindness)
and made Ambalika turn pale (resulting in Pandu's physical infirmity).

X dodged death and had miraculously escaped near fatal disasters in
his life, not once, but thrice. First he survived the Bubonic plague. Then
within two months of Mahatma's assassination, X suffered a massive
heart attack, which he was later to attribute to the bottled up grief
caused by Gandhiji's death. Timely action and combined efforts of his
daughter,secretary and nurse saved his life. Again, in 1949 the plane he
was travelling in developed some engine snag and lost radio contact
before making emergency landing in some desert area of Rajasthan.
When he returned to Delhi after the mishap, he received rousing
welcome and standing ovation in the parliament of India.

Bihar in the 1970s became the testing ground for sampoorna kranti. In
the 1930s and 40s, Y was the leader idealistic youth looked up to. He,
perhaps, saw the same spirit of idealism and rebellion in the students
who came out on the streets against corruption in high places. After
leaving socialist politics for Vinoba Bhave’s sarvodaya movement, Y had
consistently expressed his disillusionment with political parties, and
argued for a communitarian democracy. When Indira Gandhi declared
the Emergency in 1975, Y’s focus shifted to rescuing democracy from
authoritarian rule.

5.
It is said that in some military campaign Gandhara came under attack
from Hastinapur. Hastinapur conquered Gandhar, killed the king Achala
Suvala, and imprisoned all the male members of his line, saying that
line was full of adharma. This included X and his 100 brothers .Since all
of them were sparsely fed (with one grain of rice each per day) in the
prison, the family decided that at least one of them could survive and
gave all the rice to X, the most cunning of them all, so that he could live
on to take revenge. In some stories, X carves from the bones of his
dead parents ___ that will never lose him a game.

X-Shakuni
Y-Siddharth Shankar Ray

6.
Other names for X:
• Vaikartana - the one who is related/belonging to the Hindu solar deity Surya
• Suryaputra - son of Surya
• Parashurama Shishya - disciple of Parashurama
• Angaraj - King of Anga
• Vijaya Dhari - one who wields Vijaya bow
• Adhirathi - son of Adhiratha
• Daanveer - the hero possessing undying charitable nature
• Daanshoor - one who fought like a true warrior
• Vrisha - one who is truthful in speech, engaged in penances, observant of vows, and kind even to
enemies
• Sūtaputra - son of a Sūta or belonging to charioteer caste
• Kaunteya - son of Kunti

Theme
The parallels between characters of the Mahabharatha and characters
of the Indian independence movement in the Great Indian Novel

2. ID X and Y
Despite going on to shape the sound of some of Britain's best musical
acts, X wasn't assigned to pop music when he started work as a
producer on the Parlophone label. Instead, he worked as a producer of
regional folk music and comedy records. When Y's manager sent him a
demo tape, after several labels had turned Y down, he agreed to sign
the band first and then gave them an audition, thereby flouting the
most important rule of music management, and changing the course
of his life forever.

X- George Martin
Y- The Beatles

3. Who is X?
Born to a wealthy bourgeois family in Paris in 1628, X was an author
whose oeuvre includes classics such as Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in
Boots, Cindrella, and Sleeping Beauty; he is thus regarded as the
founder of the fairy-tales genre. Much of X's work is derived from pre-
existing folk tales, and X himself may have in turn influenced the works
of the Grimm Brothers.

4.
This is a photo from El Diablo
restaurant, located on a Spanish
island called Lanzarote, northwest
of Morocco.
Lanzarote is part of the Canary
islands, and the restaurant is set
against the backdrop of the
Timanfaya National Park.
What is its speciality? (Better photo
on next slide)

Situated on a dormant volcano
The restaurant relies on the dormant volcano producing bursts of heat or hot vapour, which rise through a hole
in the ground to brown the food placed over it on a cast iron grill

5.
The phrase “Plata o plomo” consisting of two elements, best described
X’s relationship with the Columbian government. “Plomo” was an
effective, inescapable policy whose execution resulted in the deaths of
hundreds of individuals, including civilians, policemen and state
officials. And “Plata” meant he also bribed countless government
officials, judges and other politicians.
What did “Plata o plomo” stand for? And whose policy was this?

6.
The United States of America remained officially neutral in World War I till 1917. But
America strongly supported her allies Britain and France by providing them with
logistics and troop support. There were Airforce Expeditionary Forces with aircraft
sent for the aid of Britain and France. As USA officially neutral, they couldn't put up
the Star Spangled Banner on the fighter planes. But the pilots of America wanted the
Europeans to know that they were Americans and display their identity high.
So they drew a Native American figure on their aircraft. What tradition is this said to
have lead to?

A tradition of attack helicopters (and UAVs) etc. to
be named after Native American tribes
• Attack Helicopter Apache
• Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter OH-58D Kiowa Warrior
• Rotorcraft H-13 Sioux
• Turbine-powered helicopter UH-1 Iroquois etc

7. FITB. Also, give the modified nickname
Arthur Conan Doyle used Holmesian techniques to find out the identity
of ______ _____ _____ (a nickname given to the criminal). He claimed
that the criminal was actually a girl, so he modified the nickname
slightly.
Based on the letters that were supposed to have been written by the
criminal, Sir Doyle claimed that he/she was literate, and had travelled
in America.

Jack The Ripper
Jill The Ripper

8.
In an Ask Me Anything Session on Reddit, Bill Gates was asked:
"Are there any purchases that you are adamant about being frugal over? That one
thing you just won’t spend much money on?"
He replied saying:
"I think people's spending instincts are set when they are in high school. I don't like
spending a lot of money on clothes or jewelry (for me - I do like to buy nice things
for my wife)."
What tongue-in-cheek reaction did this create?

Someone anonymously bought him Reddit Gold

9.Put Funda
Diaconis is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford
University and, formerly, a professional magician.
What he and his fellow researchers discovered is that most games of
chance involving coins aren’t as even as you’d think. For example, even
the 50/50 coin toss really isn’t 50/50 — it’s closer to 51/49, biased toward
whatever side was up when the coin was thrown into the air.
However spinning a one penny coin, especially one with the X on the
back, gives even more pronounced odds — the penny will land tails side
up roughly 80 percent of the time.
Why does this happen?

The side with Lincoln’s head on it is a bit heavier than the flip side, causing the coin’s
center of mass to lie slightly toward heads. The spinning coin tends to fall toward
the heavier side more often, leading to a pronounced number of extra “tails” results
when it finally comes to rest.

10. What are we talking about?
In Spanish, it’s called “Sé como José.”
It started off in English as an ironic jab at the social justice warriors aka
people prone to lengthy and hostile verbal debates on social media.
This later came to be used to spread awareness against Facebook’s
Internet.org campaign.

11
In November 1937, the Modern Review of Calcutta carried a profile of X. The essay
was written under the pen name "Chanakya".
Some excerpts-
“What is he aiming at with all his want of aim? What lies behind that mask of his,
what will to power, what insatiate longings? His conceit is already formidable. It
must be checked. We want no Caesars.”
"intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient"
“the emotion that it [his mere smile] had roused in the multitude” “just tricks of the
trade to gain the goodwill of the crowds whose darling he had become.”
“He might still use the language and slogans of democracy and socialism, but we all
know how fascism has fattened on this language and then cast it away as useless
lumber.”
Who is the essay about? Who wrote it?

12
A Chinese teenage prodigy in the board game Y labelled X “weaker” than him and
confidently declared that he could beat it. “Even if X can defeat Lee Se-dol, it can’t
beat me,” 18-year-old Ke Jie said on his microblog account.
Y originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago, and is one of the oldest
games of its type played today. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a
cultured Chinese scholar in antiquity.

Go, and Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo

14.Who talking about what?
It was when I turned to her belief in astrology and numerology that I
sensed I had gone too far. "Who said I believe in astrology and
numerology?" X retorted, eyes ablaze. [...]
In desperation I decided to claw things back. With minutes to go I said
"You are a very tough person, ____ ______". I meant it as praise but
the comment backfired. "People like you have made me so"
[...]
I stretched out my hand and said "_____ ______, a pleasure talking to
you". X replied "I must say it wasn't a pleasure talking to you.
Namaste". X rebuffed my proffered hand, unclipped and banged down
the mike and left the room.

Karan Thapar about his interview with Jayalalithaa

Written Round-2
ID the topic/inspiration for these Iron Maiden songs from the lyrics
+10 for each right answer

1.
As the sun breaks, above the ground,
An old man stands on the hill.
As the ground warms, to the first rays of light
A birdsong shatters the still.
His eyes are ablaze,
See the madman in his gaze.
Fly on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,
On your way, like an eagle,
Fly and touch the sun.
Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears
Looks the old man in the eye
As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd
In the name of God my father I fly.

2.
Wake alone in the hills
With the wind in your face
It feels good to be proud
And be free and a race
That is part of a clan
And to live on highlands
And the air that you breathe
So pure and so clean
When alone on the hills
With the wind in your hair
With a longing to feel
Just to be free
Is it right to believe
In the need to be free
It's a time when you die
And without asking why
Can't you see what they do
They are grinding us down
They are taking our land
That belongs to the clans

3.
I know, captain, that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us I'm sure
The Colonel's gone rogue, and his methods are unsound
You'll take a PBR up river; Track Him Down!
There's a conflict in every human heart
And the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused
But there are some things which cannot be excused
He's acting like a god - an insane lunatic
Your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow
Here is the file and it's all you need to know

4.
In the gloom, the gathering storm
abates
In the ships gimlet, eyes await
The call to arms to hammer at the gates
To blow them wide, throw evil to its fate
All summers long the drills to build the
machine
To turn men from flesh and blood to
steel
From paper soldiers to bodies on the
beach
From summer sands to Armageddon's
reach
Overlord, your master not your god
The enemy coast dawning gray with
scud
These wretched souls puking, shaking
fear
To take a bullet for those who sent them
here
The world's alight, the cliffs erupt in
flame
No escape, remorseless shrapnel rains
Drowning men, no chance for a
warrior's fate
A choking death, enter Hell's gate

5.
There calls the _______
There comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?
She... onward she comes
Onward she nears out of the sun
See, she has no crew
She has no life, wait but here's two.
Death and she life in death,
They throw their dice for the crew
She wins the ______ and he belongs to her now.
Then, crew one by one
They drop down dead, two hundred men
She, she, Life in Death.
She lets him live, her chosen one.

6.
All alone in a crowded room
He tries to force a smile
The smile it beamed or so it seemed
But never reached the eyes, disguise
Masquerading as the funny man do they despise
The false smile maketh of the man
Glass empty or half full
Try to make some sense or sorrows drown
All looks well on the outside
Underneath the solemn truth
There’s something that inside has died
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned
Tears of a clown

7.
I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp.
You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask.
And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last.
Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past.
You're standing in the wings, there you wait for the curtain to fall.
Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all.
Yeah, I know that you're gonna scratch me, maim me and maul.
You know I'm helpless from your mesmerising cat call.
Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
Don't you stray, don't fade away.
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
Don't you stray, from the narrow way.
I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there.
You're the _______ __ ___ ______, you're the devil, you're just out to scare.
You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air.
Haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair.

8.
You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.
The Bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall.

Scottish Independence struggle

3. The song Edge of Darkness is based on a
critically-acclaimed movie. ID the movie/the book
which the movie is based upon.
I know, captain, that you've done this work before
We've got a problem you can help us I'm sure
The Colonel's gone rogue, and his methods are unsound
You'll take a PBR up river; Track Him Down!
There's a conflict in every human heart
And the temptation is to take it all too far
In this war things get so confused
But there are some things which cannot be excused
He's acting [?] like a god - an insane lunatic
Your mission - exterminate with extreme prejudice
The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow
Here is the file and it's all you need to know

6. “Tears of a clown” is Iron Maiden’s tribute
to which famous personality?
All alone in a crowded room
He tries to force a smile
The smile it beamed or so it seemed
But never reached the eyes, disguise
Masquerading as the funny man do they despise
The false smile maketh of the man
Glass empty or half full
Try to make some sense or sorrows drown
All looks well on the outside
Underneath the solemn truth
There’s something that inside has died
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned
Tears of a clown

1.
In 1953 the boss of Coca Cola met President Eisenhower requesting
him to create a 7.5 cent coin. This was because something that had
become a popular way of buying Coke by the 1950s which was
preventing the company from increasing prices.
Why did Coke want a 7.5 cent coin?

2. This is a telegram sent by a US diplomat to President
Nixon. What genocide is the Telegram referring to?
Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed
to denounce atrocities. Our government has failed to take forceful measures to protect its citizens
while at the same time bending over backwards to placate the ______ dominated government and
to lessen any deservedly negative international public relations impact against them. Our
government has evidenced what many will consider moral bankruptcy, (...) But we have chosen not
to intervene, even morally, on the grounds that the ______ conflict, in which unfortunately the
overworked term genocide is applicable, is purely an internal matter of a sovereign state. Private
Americans have expressed disgust. We, as professional civil servants, express our dissent with
current policy and fervently hope that our true and lasting interests here can be defined and our
policies redirected.

Bangladeshi Genocide
This is the “Blood Telegram,” by Archer Blood, last Consul General of Dhaka which was a scathing criticism of US
support for the Bangladeshi genocide.

3.
Excerpts from an article from The Hindu-
President Pranab Mukherjee's attempt at culinary bonhomie with the
Israelis during his address to the Knesset left a bit of bad taste.
In his address on Wednesday, he said: "Indian population enjoy the
taste of X" However, he pronounced it as Y.
The Hindu's correspondent at the event saw the Israeli MPs look at
each other for a moment after that reference. Hopefully not much was
read into the slip.

4.
The Spad VII was a highly successful American fighter plane built during
WW I. It was a single bay biplane with extra mounted struts. The
engine was 330 pounds and it had a 37 mm cannon mounted. The
wheel mountings of this plane and the occasional payload explosive
(this was before the development of bombers) case it carried were
made of an unusual choice of material- paper mache. Except for the
primary parts of the plane like the engine , the propeller and the skin ,
auxiliary parts like the cockpit seat were completely manufactured
using paper mache. Why did they choose to do so?

If made of a metal like aluminum and if it falls into enemy hands, they
wanted to minimize the amount of metal(a crucial resource) that the
enemy got hold of. That's why they even made explosive casings with
paper mache.

5. FITB or Put Funda
Martin gathers his inspiration from a huge variety of sources including films; visiting museums and art galleries;
reading comics and books; and collecting ephemera and trivia. He continues to be fascinated by crowds: their
vibrancy, pattern, and range of detail and humour provide him with limitless source material:
"I love their movement and energy."
He is also constantly on the look-out for puns and wordplay to use in his pictures. Gradually, from all of this
meticulous research, astonishing craft and patience his unique scenes are created. A picture takes Martin many
months to draw, with ____ added when he comes to what he feels is a “good place” for ____, he explains.

6.
The Hollandic _____ Line is a series of defence systems conceived by
Maurice of Nassau in the early 17th century . The Hollandic ____ Line
proved its value less than forty years after its construction during the
Franco-Dutch War, when it stopped the armies of Louis XIV from
conquering Holland, although the freezing over of the line came close
to rendering it useless. In the 20th century the Line was extended to
include the city of Utrecht.
How does this defensive system work- something that can probably
work only in the Netherlands?

Floods parts of the country as a defense system.

67 countries the US is obliged to go to war for

8.ID X
The concept of X was originally introduced outside of print media at the
National Press Club in July 1979. This was at a Conference of the Women's
Institute for Freedom of the Press by Katherine Lawrence of Hewlett-
Packard. This was part of an ongoing discussion of a clash between written
policy of promotion versus action opportunities for women at HP. The term
was coined by Lawrence and HP manager Maryanne Schreiber.
The term was later used in March 1984 by Gay Bryant. She was the former
editor of Working Woman magazine and was changing jobs to be the editor
of Family Circle. In an Adweek article written by Nora Frenkel, Bryant was
reported as saying, "Women have reached a certain point--I call it the X.
They're in the top of middle management and they're stopping and getting
stuck."

9. What is the question?
Operation Teapot aimed to answer a bunch of questions. One of them was this:
“After the bomb, Can I, ______________?”
The answer was "Yes", since the composition is still maintained, but “Don't expect
it to be same/great".
(picture on the next slide)

After the bomb, can I drink a beer?
(or beverages in general)

10. ID X
X was founded in 1947 as a non profit organization. So their financial status is not known but estimates peg X
to be one of the most cash rich organisations in the US.
X's international headquarters is located on an 376-acre campus outside Princeton. They have offices all over
the USA. Overseas office locations, all of which are associated with for-profit subsidiaries include Amsterdam
(X Global BV headquarters), London ( X Global BV), Seoul (X Global BV), Paris, Amman, Warsaw, Beijing, and
Kingston, Ontario.
X employs 2,700 individuals, including 240 with doctorates and an additional 350 others with "higher
degrees." Critics point to the fact that X has a monopoly in most of its products which would be the subject of
anti-trust lawsuits if in any other industry. Though not all of us may be familiar with X, we would definitely
have heard of people who’ve used some of their services .

Educational Testing Services - ETS

11. What change was made from picture 1 to
2? (Clues if no one objects)

Defragmentation of Mona Lisa or “Mona Lisa
Defragged”

12. Who is X?
X is a well known person you’ve all heard of. He famously won a libel action against the Daily Star,
which had alleged he had paid for sex with a prostitute. He had secretly given a friend £19,000 for
an alibi. The alibi was (accidentally) for the wrong night, so was never needed, yet despite his
slightly miraculous triumph, X couldn’t help greeting the friend at one of his star-studded Christmas
parties – in front of other guests – with the jocular salutation: “This man owes me £19,000 and has
not paid it back”. That reckless, suicidally arrogant joke incensed the friend so much he took the
tale of the fake alibi to the News of the World, sparking a chain of events that would lead to X’s
incarceration for perjury.
X’s profession however was not hindered much, and he continued doing what he did while in
prison.

13.
These are the exceptions to how certain things are depicted in a subreddit:
X - always with a monocle and tophat.
Israel - is a cube always. Jewish Physics.
Nepal - is in the shape of its flag
Y - always with sunglasses.
Kazakhstan - always as a brick.
Singapore - as a triangle.
Which subreddit, and X and Y?

Sub- r/Polandball
X-England
Y-America

14. What is the phrase? (blank is indicative of
length)
There are several theories on the origin of this phrase.
One of the theories for the origin of this phrase is that, it comes from a group called X, a tier of 7-10
year old Girl Scouts or Girl Guides, who kept the name of a mythical creature. They were known for
being kind and helpful, performing household chores while family is sleeping. As a reward for doing
these good deeds, without expecting in return, they received badges or at times, Y’s.
A popular marketing practice employed by many stores in post-World War II US was the
distribution of stamps with each purchase. The number of stamps given out varied with the amount
of the purchase. These stamps were collected by customers and later redeemed for household
gifts. The stamps got their name, “____ _____,” from the colour of the earliest stamps. The
relationship between a purchase and the collection of these “____ ______" equated with doing a
good thing (supporting the local vendor) and getting a bonus (the valuable stamps).

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