Manage a Trio Finals

Top Eight
1. Madan Gopal, Gursartaj Singh Nijjar, Tania Garg
2. Kartik Gupta, Shantanu Sinha, Saru Lakshmi
3. Shivraj Singh Negi, Kavya, Amar
4. Shashank Sabesan, Narayanan V
5. Anusha ,Shreesh, Harsh
6. Vallabh Prakash, Surbhi Shukla, Sairam S
7. Suraj Mudaliar, Madhumita Tayade, Vibha Menon
8. Priya Sampathkumar, Rachit Kothari, Rohit Rajgharia

List of rounds
• 2 bounce rounds : 15 questions each
• 3 LVC
• 1 A-Z
• Audience Round

Quick reminder before we begin

Q 1
• X is a 1964 B&W Hindi film directed and produced by Y
also starring himself. Z is the actress in the movie. Film
narrative progresses through dialogues and
background music composed by Vasant Desai, who also
gave a song, “Dekha hai sapna koi..” sung by Lata
Mangeshkar.
• The film is soliloquy of a man who comes home to find
that his wife and son are not at home, he assumes that
they have left him and reminiscences his life with
them, and scared of his life without them, he regrets
his past indiscretions.
• Identify X, Y, Z. Why is the movie so famous?

• X: Yaadein
• Y: Sunil Dutt
• Z: Nargis

Q 2
• In the original, unaired pilot of the series, the
conception of the female lead was very different. She
was called Katie, and was envisioned as "a street-
hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable
interior". X and Y would "approach her with honesty, to
draw the real, sensitive Katie out". The role was played
by Amanda Walsh. However, the test audiences
reacted to the character negatively, seeing her as too
mean. Because of this, the character was changed, and
the role was recast.
• Who is she?

Q 3
• XY is a concept album. According to ___(1)___,
the album is "based on a love story with a happy
ending", in which two protagonists: X and Y, who
are living in an oppressive, dystopian urban
environment, meet one another through a gang
called "The Lost Boys", and fall in love. Lyrically,
the album is inspired by "old school American
graffiti" and "the White Rose Movement."
___(1)___ also said that the album was
influenced by HBO TV series The Wire.

Q 4
• Gold: Sandra Izbasa, 15.191 points
• Silver: X, 15.083 points
• Bronze: Maria Paseka, 15.050 points
• Who is X? What did she inspire?

Q 5
• X were accidentally discovered by Y in an effort to cure a dying prince
of the sultan he worked for. Y dug a pit where he discovered the
restorative chemical pools that he dubbed X for their abilities to heal
those at death's door. After using the pit to save the life of the prince, a
side effect of the pit's restorative abilities revealed itself as the prince
went mad and killed Y's wife, Sora. Blamed for his wife's murder, Y was
left to die, buried in the desert, but was soon rescued by his own tribe
and a boy named Huwe. Afterward, he used the tribe to gain
vengeance for what happened to him and proceeded to call himself
the "Head of the Demon", which is a direct translation (from Arabic) of
Y.
• X? Y?

• X: Lazarus Pit
• Y: Ras al Ghul

Q 6
• Kalimannu is an upcoming Malayalam film
directed by Blessy, starring Shweta Menon in
the lead role. Inspired by the story of
Abhimanyu and Subadhra, the film is
supposedly an ode to the bond between a
mother and her child. In September 2012, an
incident during the filming of the movie led to
a lot of controversy, with protests from various
parts of the country. What happened / why
were people protesting?

• The delivery of her first child was filmed live
for the movie

Q 7
• Z is a ten-episode miniseries based on a book (with
same name) by historian Stephen Ambrose. Its
executive producers - X and Y had collaborated three
years after the success of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (1998).
• The budget was approximately $125 million, which
comes to an average of $12.5 million per episode,
more expensive than any other television show,
including other HBO productions.
• It enjoys a rating of 9.6 on IMDb with over 75K votes.
• Give me X,Y,Z.

• X-Steven Spielberg
• Y-Tom Hanks
• Z- Band of Brothers

• Laurence Oliver, Liza Minnelli, Kevin Costner,
Roberto Benigni, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock
• They have collected both Oscars and Razzies

Q 9
X is 1963 CinemaScope British film, directed by Mark
Robson, and based on a 1962 book by Stanley Wolpert of
the same name. It stars Horst Buchholz, Diane Baker, Jose
Ferrer and Robert Morley.
The film is a fictional narrative set in the last few hours of
Y’s life that lead up to his assassination of Z. As he
prepares for the shooting at Z’s residence, flashbacks
recall of Y’s troubled life of violence with Muslims, his
problems with his family, and his involvement with two
women.
X was also first motion picture depiction of z
What are X,Y,Z?

• X: Nine Hours to Rama
• Y: Nathuram Godse
• Z: Mahatma Gandhi

Q 10
Ernie Pyle, war correspondent with over 400
daily and 300 weekly publications, glorified the
soldier. He suggested that soldiers get combat
pay which was later accepted under the Ernie
Pyle Bill. Sadly he was killed by a sniper in the
Okinawa campaign in April, 1945. in pop culture,
a film starring Burgess Meredith playing Ernie
Pyle and featuring Robert Mitchum as Lt. Capt.
Bill Walker created which iconic character?

Q 11
Print ad for which Chain?

Q 12
• “X" uses the 50s progression, an I-vi-IV-V chord progression that hundreds
of popular songs have used such as "Heart and Soul" and "Unchained
Melody". It is performed in the key of B major at a tempo of 112 beats per
minute. According to Randy Lewis of Los Angeles Times, the familiar
structure contributes to the song's catchiness, making it what others have
called an earworm. The song also sees Y on a harmony track. In a review
for Rolling Stone, writer Matthew Perpetua described the vocals as having
"a peculiar tonality that inadvertently highlights the absurdity of
boilerplate pop lyrics," adding that the tone in the refrain "sounds unlike
anything else in pop music." He noted the sound as being not entirely
agreeable to listen to, but stated that Y ultimately ends up "sounding like a
distinct singer with an alluring sort of anti-charisma." The lyrics of the
song speak about "hanging out with friends and having fun." Paul Asay
of Plugged In noted that lyrics reflect the happenings of a day, in the life of
a teenager like Y.
• Identify X or Y

Q 13
At first, the producers were looking for a quintessentially
American person to play the role of X. Bryan Singer in particular
felt there was no way he was going to hire a non-American actor
for the role.
At the time of the casting , Y was in Namibia filming the
movie Flight of the Phoenix. He assembled an audition tape in a
hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light and apologized
for its appearance. Singer was very impressed by his
performance and commented on how well the "American actor"
was able to grasp the character.
Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey
were the others in contention for the role of X.

• X: Dr. House
• Y: Hugh Laurie

Q 14
X is a BBC BAFTA-winning children's television
series, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll
Productions. The show was at the center of a
controversy when American cleric and conservative
pundit Jerry Falwell claimed in 1999 that Y, one of
the X, was a homosexual role model for children.
Falwell based this conclusion on the character's
purple colour and his triangular antenna; both the
colour purple and the triangle are sometimes used
as symbols of the Gay Pride movement.
Give us just X.

Q 16
• X was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to
the character Y from @’s novel Z. The term first became popular because
of an increase in the availability and number of readers of the novel
(which, up until that point, had been subject to rather mixed reviews)
following release of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.
• The term was often related to a mistaken belief that Y's journey into the
West at the end of @'s novel meant that he would live forever. In fact, @
maintained that Y would still die, and travelled West only for healing.
Another meaning ascribed to the term, especially in later usage, is that
@'s work remains alive and popular.
• The term was used frequently in graffiti, buttons, bumper-stickers, t-
shirts, and other materials. It was commonly associated with the hippie
movement.
• X and Y??

• X: Frodo Lives
• Y: Frodo Baggins from LOTR

Q 17
This appearance in the air is called a mirage. He
told a sailor to go up to the foretop and look
beyond the ship. The man obeyed, and
reported that he could see on the water, below
the ship in the air, one precisely like it.
Explanation for ?

Q 18
• X is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon
Network. The series stars a muscular beefcake young man named X who dons
a pompadour hairstyle and an Elvis Presley-like voice and has a forward, woman-
chasing personality. Plots typically revolve around him trying to get a woman that
he has targeted throughout the episode.
• Y is an American comic science fiction animated children's television series created
by Genndy Tartavosky for Cartoon Network. The series follows Y, a boy-genius with
a secret laboratory filled with his collection of inventions. He constantly battles his
sister Dee Dee, who always gains access despite his best efforts to keep her out, as
well as his arch-rival and neighbor, Mandark.
• Z is an American animated television series created by animator Craig
McCracken and produced by Cartoon Network Studios for Cartoon Network. The
show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls
with superpowers, as well as their "father", the brainy scientist Professor Utonium,
who all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA.
• What's special about the three creators?`

• X: Johnny Bravo, Y: Dexter, Z:Power Puff Girls
• Roommates in college

Salvador Dali and Walt Disney for
Destino

Q 20
X is a graphic novel completed in 1991 by American
cartoonist Y. It depicts Y interviewing his father about his
experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The
book uses postmodern techniques—most strikingly in its
depiction of races of humans as different kinds of
animals, with Jews as mice, Germans as cats and non-
Jewish Poles as pigs. X has been described as a memoir,
biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of
genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win
a Pulitzer Prize.
Give X and Y

• X – Maus
• Y – Art Spiegelman

Q 21
• A _____ is a table-top mountain found in the highlands of South America,
especially in Venezuela meaning "house of the gods" in their native
tongue. It served as inspiration for a location in a popular 2009 movie X.
Name the movie.

Q 22
When Neo & Morpheus Fight in the construct in
the movie The Matrix (where Morpheus is
teaching Neo to fight, taking him through all
those martial arts lessons), there are 2 different
pieces of music, composed by Don Davis -
"Switch or Break Show" and "Bow Whisk
Orchestra".
What’s the significance of these pieces?

• They are both anagrams of Wachowski
Brothers – the producers of the movie

Q 23
• *_______ is a film genre which was once defined
by film critic Andrew Sarris as "a sex comedy
without the sex". The classic age of _______ was
in the 30’s and 40’s and it has close links with the
theatrical genre of farce. _______ films often
include mistaken identities, cross dressing, class
issues and fast-talking, witty repartee. In short,
it is a genre of comedy which is unconventional,
goes in different directions, and behaves in
unexpected ways.

Q 24
• "Do you like what you doth see...?" said the
voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively
parted the folds of her robe to reveal the
rounded, shadowy glories within. Frito's throat
was dry, though his head reeled with desire and
ale. She slipped off the flimsy garment and strode
toward the fascinated boggie unashamed of her
nakedness. She ran a perfect hand along his hairy
toes, and he helplessly watched them curl with
the fierce insistent wanting of her.”

Text from Bored of the Rings, a short novel
written by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C.
Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon

Q 25
Sources suggest Xs are made from a single strand of mutated DNA.Xs
are impulsive creatures with little self-control, but with a wide-eyed
wonder and odd innocence that endears them to viewers and makes
them relatable. They can be pesky when they are doing weird
interactions with other people, animals, or objects. The Xs have
standard English names such as Dave, Stuart, Kevin, Jerry, Carl, Phil,
Jorge, Tim, Donny, Mark, Lance, Tom, John, Steve and Bob.
According to Pierre Coffin there are over 899 Xs. However, on the Ellen
DeGeneres show, Gru himself claims there are actually only 7 Xs. He
explains that the editor of the photo cuts and reimposes extra Xs.
X?

Q 26
Grammar is not a time of waste.
A trained ape could not teach gym.
I cannot hire a substitute student.
I will not yell `Fire' in a crowded classroom.
I will not skateboard in the halls.
I will not sleep through my education.
I will not sell miracle cures.
I will not sell school property.
Put Funda

Q 27
• Connect to a 2012 film adaptation of a Beat -
Generation novel

• Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

______ is a shy or unpopular individual who doesn't socialize or
participate in activities at social events. He or she may have other
talents but usually does not express them in the presence of
other individuals. The term comes from the image of a person
isolating themselves from areas of social activities at ballroom
dances and parties, where the people who did not wish to dance
(or had no partner) remained close to the walls of the dance hall.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed), the first
known usage of the term in this sense was in an 1820 poem
entitled County Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed. It was
originally used to refer to women, and only in the context of
dances; more recently the term has been expanded to include
men and other social gatherings.
Hint: The author of a bestseller directed its own movie
adaptation
Q 28

• Scarborough Fair – Simon and Garfunkel.

Q 30
• In 1979 it was announced that Roger
Zelazny’s Lord of Light would be made
into a 50 million dollar film. It was
planned that the sets for the movie
would be made permanent and
become the core of a science
fiction theme park to be built in Aurora,
Colorado. Famed comic-book
artist/writer/editor Jack Kirby was even
contracted to produce artwork for set
design. However, due to legal problems
the project was never completed.
• Recently came back to limelight why?

Q 31
• In the universe of ______ , the midi-chlorians is used
by the X to detect children who are in harmony with
the Y . The midi-chlorians are everywhere in the
universe and present in all living beings. The number of
midi-chlorians varies among individuals, but the
minimum concentration required to receive X training
is 2500 midi-chlorians per cell. An ancient prophecy
foretold the appearance of a Chosen One imbued with
a high concentration of midi-chlorians, strong with the
Y, and destined to alter it forever.Z is supposed to have
had the most midi-chlorians per cell in the universe
although at times his son had the same count that Z
did.

• X: Jedi
• Y: Force
• Z: Anakin

A - Z
 A – Z
 Written round
 3 points per correct answer, no negatives
 +10 if you get all correct

A, the eldest son of his father, relinquished his right to
the throne in order to facilitate his dad's second
marriage. B played the role of A in the epic TV series C,
produced by D. C ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June
1990.
B also played the role of the title character in the series E
of the same name. At times, E exhibits traces of
attraction towards F, who works in the same place as E's
alter ego, G.
Dr. H, one of the antagonists in the series, is a mad
scientist who specializes in cloning and creating
monsters to thwart E. H is also the code-name of one of
the characters in a famous book written by I.

J (real name), a Venezuelan hitman, was nicknamed H,
apparently because the book was found among his
possessions.
The nickname was also used as the name of the most
prominent antagonist in the first three books of the series
K, created by L. After L's death, the series was continued
by M.
The series K was also adapted into a series of movies,
starring N as the protagonist. N also played the role of a
sportsman O, in the film P. The title of the film is derived
from the name of a poem written by Q.
The sport which the film P is based on was reportedly
invented at an English school, which lent its name to the
sport. R, a Booker Prize winning author, is an alumnus of
the school. R's ex-wife, S, is a cookbook author, model
and TV show host.

• S was born in T, a city in South India. One of
the major temples in T is U. The main deity
worshipped in U is V. According to the
Puranas, V's partner, W, worshipped V in the
form of a peacock at this temple. Thus, the
locality X where the temple is located gets its
name from the vernacular word for peacock.
• Y needed Z in order to send his ancestors'
souls to heaven, or something like that. Z,
however, was fast and uncontrollable. On Y's
request, V helped him by trapping Z within
his hair in order to control Z's speed.
• Incidentally, A is Z's child

 A – Bhishma
 B – Mukesh Khanna
 C – Mahabharat
 D – BR Chopra
 E – Shaktimaan
 F – Geeta Vishwas
 G – Gangadhar
 H – Dr. Jackal
 I – Frederick Forsyth
 J – Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
• K – Bourne Series
• L – Robert Ludlum
• M – Erich von Lustbader
• N - Matt Damon
• O – Francois Pienaar
• P – Invictus
• Q – William Ernest Henley
• R – Salman Rushdie
• S – Padma Lakshmi
• T - Chennai

 U – Kapaleeswarar
Temple
 V – Shiva
 W – Parvati
 X – Mylapore
 Y – Bhagiratha
 Z - Ganga

•  Bangalore
New York 

•
• Washington
London 

Long Visual Connect (LVC)
Connect all the images. Points
decrease with every successive slide.

This is your chance to take a final guess….

ANSWER
These are all people who were featured on the Beatles’
album ‘Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’ cover.
The people are (L-R):
Slide 1: Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, Lenny Bruce
Slide 2: Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Lewis Carroll
Slide 3: Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde
Slide 4: George Bernard Shaw, David Livingstone, John
Lennon
Slide 5: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

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