This document contains trivia questions on various topics ranging from history, pop culture, science and more. Some key details include: 1. The first recorded withdrawal of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault occurred in 2015 due to the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Svalbard is also the northernmost town in the world. 2. A furnace is used for metal production as well as laboratory processes and is also the name of a 1953 play with themes similar to McCarthyism, a practice that originated in the US to expose communist infiltration. 3. The dozens is a game of spoken insults between two players in black communities in the US, often incorrectly referred to as "playing

1. Non-Trivial Trivia
Finals
Mahale and Daattavya

2. Pounce Bounce Round1
+10/-5 on pounce.
+10 on bounce.
Partial Points at QMs discretion

4. 1.
Liberty Leading The People(photo) is an 1830 painting by Eugene Delacroix.
How did this painting regain importance in 2008? Or simply where have you
seen this from something in 2008.

7. 2. List of What?
a.Gujarati Mango Chutney
b.Firangi Cheese n Spice
c.Punjab da Pickle
d.Shillong Noodle Masala
e.Goan Butter Garlic

10. 3.
What kind of creatures are the Canary Islands
named after?

12. The name Islas Canarias is derived from the Latin name
Canariae Insulae, meaning "Islands of the Dogs"

13. 4.The story of which bands name?
● X's friend ________ Newball, whose name they changed to form
the word Y.
● a television commercial for Olympia Brewing Company.
● the four members' renewed commitment to their band

16. 5. What is his most famous pen name x?
Samuel Clemens was an aspiring reporter when he published a humorous piece
under the name X. Later, he would be far more famous as a satirist than as a
journalist.
Clemens named himself after the phrase X which is what a boat’s leadsman cries
when the river water reaches a depth of 12 feet (meaning it’s deep enough for steam
boats).
X was far from the only pen name Clemens used - scholars still have trouble tracking
down his work because he published under so many different names. Along with X,
Clemens was also fond of publishing under the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.

19. 6. What will he Inherit ?
George Dominic Percy, Earl Percy (born 4 May 1984), is a British businessman and the heir
apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland.
He became heir apparent to the dukedom in 1995, when his uncle Henry, 11th Duke of
Northumberland, died. Percy's parents, now Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, were
eager to protect him from "vices and pitfalls", and they filed a lawsuit to prevent him from
inheriting £1 million and a £350,000 annual income upon turning 18.
Percy is also set to inherit £ 485 million along with the X, which has led him to be the target
of many memes and has been the reason of him receiving many marriage proposals from
fans.

21. ALNWICK CASTLE

22. 7.List OF What? Order Important.
● Camila Cabello
● Phoebe Robinson
● Aly Raisman
● Sarah Silverman
● Gal Gadot
● Lilly Singh
● Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
● Trace Lysette
● Tiffany Haddish
● Angy Rivera
● Franchesca Ramsey
● Millie Bobby Brown
● Ellen DeGeneres
● Jennifer Lopez
● Chloe Kim
● Alex Morgan
● Mary J. Blige
● Beanie Feldstein
● Jackie Fielder
● Danica Patrick
● Ilhan Omar
● Elizabeth Banks
● Ashley Graham
● Rita Ora
● X and Y

24. Girls Like You Music Video, Maroon 5
Adam Levine’s Wife Behati Prinsloo and Daughter Dusky Rose

25. 8.Explanation of what?
While Scott Adams, the creator of the X, has offered no definitive explanation for this, he has
explained the Y at least as a further example of X's lack of power over his environment.
A second explanation given by Adams in the X FAQ is that "he is just glad to see you". Adams has
also hinted that the Y may be displaying an aversion to him.
Additionally, in Seven Years of Highly Defective People, Adams wrote: "Many readers asked me to
allow X to lose his innocence with Liz, so to speak. But I didn't see any way I could do that in a
comic strip and get it past the editors. So I developed a secret sign. I told the people who receive
the X newsletter that if X ever got lucky with Liz, I would draw Y flat one day."

27. Why Dilbert’s Tie is curved upwards.

28. 9.
W X Y Z is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from
Kentucky. The song was originally titled "Farewell Song" in a songbook by Burnett dated to around 1913.
The song was popularized by The Stanley Brothers who recorded the song in the 1950s, and many
versions were recorded in the 1960s, most notably by Bob Dylan.
Variations of the song have also been recorded under the titles of “Girl X Y Z” by Joan Baez,”Maid X Y Z”
by Judy Collins, and “Z” by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Public interest in the song was renewed after the release of the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
where it plays a central role in the plot. The song, with lead vocal by Dan Tyminski, was also included in
the film's highly successful, multiple-platinum-selling soundtrack. This recording won a Grammy for Best
Country Collaboration at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002.
Which iconic song?

30. Man Of Constant Sorrows

31. 10.Easy Peasy
Snowball’s Chance is a parody sequel of Animal Farm
written by John Reed.
In this controversial novel written in the weeks following
the September 11 attacks, Orwell’s exiled Snowball
returns to the farm with a new idea X and a new motto:
“All animals are born equal-_______________.”
Id X. Bonus points for the motto.

33. Capitalism.
“All animals are born equal — what they
become is their own affair.”

34. 11.
X vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a 2015 young adult novel and the debut
book by American author Becky Albertalli.
The coming-of-age story focuses on the titular protagonist is forced to come out
after certain set of incidents. The novel is set in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
The name of the novel is a parody reference to the supposed Y, a pejorative term
that was commonly used by opponents of gay rights in the United States until
growing popular support for gay rights among the American people rendered the
use of the term no longer acceptable in public.
Name the books more famous movie adaptation by 20th century Fox and the term
Y.

36. Love,Simon
Y-Homosexual Agenda

37. 12. Purely Trivia
Name all four capital cities situated on the banks of the River Danube.
(2.5 per answer on bounce)
(+15 on pounce)

39. Bratislava
ViennaBelgradeBudapest

40. 13.
X was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology.
X was conceived after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father, King
Cinyras of Cyprus. Myrrha had sex with her father in complete darkness for nine nights, but
he discovered her identity and chased her with a sword.
The gods transformed her into a myrrh tree and, in the form of a tree, she gave birth to X.
Aphrodite found the infant and gave him to be raised by Persephone, the queen of the
Underworld.
X grew into an astonishingly handsome young man, causing Aphrodite and Persephone to
feud over him, with Zeus eventually decreeing that he would spend one third of the year in
the Underworld with Persephone, one third of the year with Aphrodite, and the final third of
the year with whomever he chose. X chose to spend his final third of the year with Aphrodite.
Id X, whose name has now come to being synonymous with “a very handsome man”.

42. Adonis

43. WRITTEN ROUND 1
CELEBS DRESSED AS OTHER
CELEBS
1.2 parts for each question. +5 for each part.
2.+20 for all correct.

44. 1.

45. 2.

46. 3.

47. 4.

48. 5.

49. 6.

50. EXCHANGE
SHEETS!

51. ANSWERS

52. 1.
Katy Perry dressed as
Freddie Mercury.

53. 2.
Kylie Jenner dressed
as Christina Aguilera.

54. 3.
Paris Hilton dressed
as Miley Cyrus.

55. 4.
Miranda Kerr dressed
as Marilyn Monroe.

56. 5.
Nina Dobrev dressed
as Ryan Lochte.

57. 6.
Ellen DeGeneres dressed
as Nicki Minaj

58. WRITTEN ROUND 2
Creative Marketing
1.+5 for each correct.
2.+5 for all correct.

59. 1.

60. 2.

61. 3.

62. 4.

63. 5.

64. EXCHANGE
SHEETS!

65. ANSWERS

66. 1.

67. Veet Hair Removal Cream

68. 2.

69. Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones

70. 3.

71. Colgate Dental Floss

72. 4.

73. Scrabble

74. 5.

75. Guinness Beer

76. Pounce Bounce Round 2
Anticlockwise
+10/-5 on pounce.
+10 on bounce.
Partial Points at QMs discretion

77. 14
Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR), started the X global seed vault. It is managed by the
Norwegian crop trust. Various countries and institutions deposit genetically pure seeds for
safe storage here. It acts as a doomsday device to support agriculture for the coming
millennium.
In 2015, due to escalation of the Syrian civil war, something happened for the first time.
X is also the northernmost town in the world.
What happened in 2015? Bonus points for X.

80. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, First ever withdrawal of stored seeds.

81. 15
A X is a container that can withstand very high temperatures and is used for
metal, glass, and pigment production as well as a number of modern laboratory
processes.
X is also the name of a famous play, written in 1953 which has themes very
similar to a practice Y. This practice originated in the US during the 1940s and
1950s to expose supposed communist infiltration in the US government.
X and Y?

83. McCarthyism

84. 16
X is a game of spoken words between two contestants, common in black
communities of the United States, where participants insult each other until one
gives up.
Comments in the game focus on the opposite player's intelligence, appearance,
competency, social status, financial situation, and disparaging remarks about the
other player's family members
Those outside the African-American community, in fact, often use the incorrectly
specific term "Y" to refer to X

86. The dozens,

87. 17
The acronym X is used to tell humans and computers apart to prevent by asking
users to write a combination of alphabets/numbers from an image.
There are several projects of converting books to the ebook version. One method
is to scan the books and use OCR software to convert image of text to actual text.
But somebody has to validate whether the conversion is successful.
An adaptation of X, reX has been developed to solve this problem.
X ? Funda?

90. 18
Maurice Tillet was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name,
The French Angel. (Image Follows)
He is believed to be the inspiration for the lead character of a very popular movie
franchise X. One famous scene from an installment of the franchise X is possibly a
tribute to Tillet’s wrestling career.
X ?

94. 19
X was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anesthesia and medical hygiene.
He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in
tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London, in 1854.
The Broad Street cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854
near Broad Street in London. This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the
physician X study of its causes and his hypothesis that contaminated water, not air, was the
source of cholera. This discovery came to influence public health and kickstarted the
sanitation movement.
Today the name X is very famous for a different reason, relevant to pop culture

96. John Snow

97. 20
The X is a landmark building in Brussels, originally constructed for the 1958
Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects
André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall.
In the 1950s, faith in scientific progress was great, and a structure depicting ____
was chosen to embody this.
<Image follows>
X ?

100. The Atomium

101. 21
The term X is often used as a term for most forms of background music,
regardless of the source of the music, and may also be known as "elevator music"
or "lift music".
A popular song The Sound of X was released by a famous progressive rock band
to comment on the washing down and decline of music.
X? +5 for the band

103. Muzak, Porcupine Tree

104. 22
When asked why he created X, Y replied "Because I wanted a place to recreate all
of the things I never got to do as a child... As a child I was always working."
Y named X after a famous island from the story of Peter Pan, the boy who never
grows up.
Y purchased the estate X in 1988 and it was both his home and a private
amusement park.
X,Y?

106. Neverland, Michael Jackson

107. 23
The disease X killed over 50 million people in 18 months which was around 3-6%
of the World’s population at the time. The number of deaths per unit time is the
highest for this disease.
However the name X is a misnomer as the disease didn’t actually originate in
______. A possible reason for this misnomer is due to the neutrality of ______
during a major world event of the time. During this time, the media of various
countries used a certain tactic which can explain the misnomer.
X? Funda ( What did the media do )

109. Spanish Flu. Misreporting of media during world war 1 to maintain morale.
As Spain was neutral, the media would report about the effects of the disease in
Spain but not at the battlefronts of their countries.

110. 24
In a 2003 soccer match supporters of the Brugge KV club went from a bar where
X was playing to a match against Italy’s AC Milan, singing the melody all the while.
Brugge KV fans soon adopted it as a celebratory chant following their team’s
goals.
After another Italian team, AS Roma, defeated Brugge during the 2006 UEFA Cup
tournaments, it was brought to Italy and became popular there. That year’s FIFA
World Cup saw Italy triumphant and the melody was chanted throughout the
Roman streets.
X?

112. Seven Nation’s Army

113. 25
This Leicester born sportsman, X is a world champion in his sport and his
renowned for his fighting spirit and work ethic which make up for his perceived
lack of natural talent.
This sport is dominated by British players and is known for the immense amount
of precision and concentration required which imposes unique constraints on
spectators as well.
X has openly spoken about his passion for football and appeared on the pitch for a
game between Leicester and Everton. <Image Follows>
X?

116. Mark Selby

117. 27

119. Mandela effect

120. 28
X is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges, conceiving
of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of
a certain format and character set.
X is also the name of a website which extends the idea originally presented by
Borges to develop an infinite library of sorts which is said to contain all possible
combinations of characters in some digital location.
The title X is Biblical reference to a story in the book of Genesis, which explains
the origin of different languages. In the story, a unified and monolingual human
race sets out to build an enormous tower in the city of _____ that would reach up
to the heavens.

122. The Library of Babel

123. 29. List of what?Funda works too.
1.Abuja, Nigeria
2.Canberra,Australia
3.New Delhi,India
4.Gaborone,Botswana
5.Washington DC,USA
6.Brasilia, Brazil

125. List of Purpose Built Capitals-
Most are inland and were moved from major port cities to prevent attack and
control by sea.

126. 30
“The station was very interested in its early days about providing niche content for
‘off peak’ broadcast”, says Joe, “and along with Tim Lyons, the Chief Engineer, I
proposed a weekly home computing show, with the unique feature of transmitting
programs ‘live’ from the cassette storage used at the time”. Datarama was born,
but it wasn’t until July 1983 and the fourth episode of the show that the hosts
finally received clearance from the Independent Broadcasting Authority to transmit
computer data.
<Video follows>

127. FUNDA?

129. Transmitting data or computer programs over the air through sound data
stored in cassettes

130. Connect

131. +60/-40
A small island in North Eastern America, whose name means
'land of many hills' in Senape language, was sold by the
Senape Indians to Dutch fur traders for 60 guilders in 1626.
What name did the Dutch give to their surrounding
settlement?

132. +40/-20
Which popular poultry dish was believed to have
been created at the Russian Merchants Club in
the early 20th Century?

133. +20/-10
How is the vegetable Brassica Oleracea (Gemmifera Group)
better known?

134. +10/-5
Which agreement, signed in March 1957, established the
European Economic Community?

135. +5/0
Who was the Greek goddess of war, justice, wisdom and
many other areas?

137. Answers
European Capital Cities