Pandora's box- The General Quiz- SIlhouettes 2019, AFMC

Saraswat Chatterjee
Rohan Setlur
Devansh Srivastava
ARMEDFORCESMEDICALCOLLEGE
SILHOUETTES 2019

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 Pratyusha Yedla for her contributions.
 Sai Pavan Kumar and Ruturaj for guinea-pigging.
Shoutouts

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 25 questions.
 No negatives.
 Every 5th question is starred. They will be used to break ties. If tie still
remains, sudden death will be followed.
 Part points are present for two part answers.
 All blanks are indicative.
 6 teams to qualify for the finals.
 QMs’ decisions are final.
Rules

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 The following flag belongs to a British Overseas Territory, whose capital
is Hamilton.
 The Coat of Arms are indicative of a pop-culture reference to the
territory.
 Name the territory.
 Image on the next slide.
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 Inspiration for this famous song came while witnessing a jazz band
playing in the corner of a practically deserted pub in Deptford, South
London. At the end of their performance, the lead singer announced
that they were the “_______ __ _____", and X found the contrast
between the group's dowdy appearance and surroundings, and their
grandiose name amusing.
 Thus their next compostion came to be named such, and it went on to be
critically acclaimed, and is regarded as one of the all time greats in Rock
music.
 ID the song and name X.
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Sultans of Swing
X- Mark Knopfler

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 In 1930s companies like Procter and Gamble, Colgate, Palmolive, and
Lever brothers started sponsoring radio shows, which came to be
known as X, due to association with these companies.
 X have also lent their name to their modern TV counterparts.
 Give X.
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 Syldavia is a fictional country in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics
series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a
rivalry with the fictional neighboring country of Borduria. Syldavia is
depicted in four books, and referenced to in one.
 The Muslim and Ottoman influences drawn in the scenes depicting
Syldavia indicate that Hergé took inspiration from the country X to
create Syldavia. King Muskar XII, the fictional King of Syldavia bore a
resemblance to King Zog, the then King of X, and even the flags look
alike to some extent.
 ID X.
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 X is a commune in Tunis Governorate, Tunisia. It is named after, and
includes in its area, an important archaeological site.
 Established in 1919, X municipality is some 15 km to the east-northeast
of Tunis, situated between the towns of Sidi Bou Said to the north and
Le Kram to the south. It is reached from Tunis by the R23 road via La
Goulette, or by the N9 road via Tunis-X Airport. The X Palace (the
Tunisian presidential palace) is located in this municipality.
 Apart from being a residential locality, it attracts thousands of tourists,
and the name X may remind one of a famous ancient settlement, which
ceased to exist in 146 BC.
 ID X.
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 When Daniel Handler was doing research for his first novel, The Basic
Eight, he had to contact several right-wing organizations. He didn't
want to put his real name on any mailing lists, though, so he made up
the nonsense name "XY" for when he wanted to hide his identity.
 The name became an inside joke with his friends, until he decided to
stick it on a series of children's books, and create a dour narrator to go
along with it.
 Give XY.
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 X was first produced in _________ by two chemists, John Wheeley Lea
and William Perrins, and went on sale in 1837. It is still produced in the
city today, although the origin of the recipe remains a mystery.
 The story goes that Lord Sandys, the Baron of _________ had been the
Governor of Bengal, and had taken a liking to a strong recipe he had
found during his time in Bengal. He visited the chemist shop asking for
the recipe to be made up. Lea and Perrins made an extra jar for
themselves, but found that they did not like the concoction and stored it
in the cellar. Some time later they retasted the preparation, which had
undergone fermentation by that time, to discover that it was delicious.
 Give X.
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 The following is an inexhaustive list of people who are suspected of
something.
o Paul Horner from Liverpool, who was arrested for vandalism in 2014
o Richard Pfeiffer, a Brooklyn based artist, arrested in 2015
o A parking attendant at Dismaland
o Thierry Guetta, a clownish French artist
o Robert Del Naja, frontman of the band Massive Attack
o Robin Gunningham, a Bristol resident- the most likely suspect
 Who are these people?
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People alleged to be Banksy

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 This is a graffiti on a wall in Tel Aviv, Israel, painted by the Israeli
graffiti crew Kis-Lev in 2014.
 What is the graffiti about?
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 The term X actually originated as early as 1773 and referred to a variety
of coffee. In the late 1700’s, one variety of coffee beans became
extremely popular in Europe, and these are still among the best type of
beans that nature has to offer: Xs. Now the term is used to refer to a type
of coffee preparation popular all over the world.
 The X coffee beans were named for the port of X in Yemen, where the
beans were shipped from. It was the Ottoman Turks, who began
occupying Yemen in 1536, who originally began exporting the beans
through the port of X, which involved a complicated trade route to Suez
and then by camel to Alexandria, and then onward by French or
Venetian merchants. These beans are now commonly called Y beans.
 Give X and Y.
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 Probably the single most important Morse code that any layman can
(and should) remember is the distress signal …---… which conveys the
message “Save Our Souls”. However, users of the old Nokia models
(such as the iconic 3310) have unknowingly memorised the Morse code
for another message by default, having heard it several times a day.
 What is the code, and what does it mean?
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The message tune (…--…)
SMS

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 In the first half of the 20th century, the Olympic Games actually had a
medal competition for ____ ________. It was a part of the larger “Arts”
portion of the Games, that included everything from literature to
sculpture.
 USA’s first medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was in this event.
 In ____ ________ category, only nine medals went to stadiums or other
sports facilities. The other three went to parks. None seemed to go to
any actual ____ _____. Whether this is because people got confused,
because the type of people who want Olympic medals really like their
sports, or because Olympic judges simply didn’t see the point of any
other sort of facility, history does not record.
 What was this event?
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 The Dahomey Amazons or Mino, which means "our mothers," were an all-
female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the present-
day Republic of Benin which lasted until the end of the 19th century. They
were so named by Western observers and historians due to their similarity to
the mythical Amazons of ancient Anatolia and the Black Sea.
 The women's army consisted of a number of regiments: huntresses,
riflewomen, reapers, archers, and gunners. Each regiment had different
uniforms, weapons and commanders.
 The Dahomey Amazons have served as the inspiration for a group of fictional
characters as well.
 ID the fictional counterparts.
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 There are songs throughout the Led Zeppelin catalogue which are based
on Tolkien characters and plots, but this one got its start after Robert
Plant was jailed overnight, having been caught in Hyde Park after dark.
With nothing better to do, he obviously began to dream about the
famed Middle-earth mountain range.
 What is this famous song?.
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 This is a scanned copy of a secret document
from the mid-1900s.
 What is this all about?
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Percentages Agreement between
Winston Churchill & Josef Stalin

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 The Truth of Transubstantion involves the method by which the communion
wafer received during a Catholic service would be transformed into the flesh
of Christ. The priest would hold the wafer and say “Hoc est corpus meum” (this
is my body), and so it would be, as per their belief.
 Among other differences, Protestants did not subscribe to this view, and only
considered this practice to be a symbolism. They subsequently ridiculed the
Catholic church for continuing to believe so, to the extent that the Protestant
King James I had a clown in his court who would prefix his magical tricks with
the incantation “_____ _____”, in apparent mockery of the practice. The phrase
caught on, clearly.
 FITB.
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 In photography, X is the aesthetic quality of the blur created in the out-
of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Differences in lens
aberrations and apertures shape causes some lens designs to blur the
image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring
that is unpleasant or distracting (“good” and “bad” X, respectively)
 X occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.
 The term comes from the Japanese word meaning “haze”, and is also
used by the Japanese to refer to mental clouding or senility.
 Give X.
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 The Battle of Haldighati (18 June 1576) between the Rana of Mewar, Maharana
Pratap; and the Mughal emperor Akbar's forces, led by Man Singh I of Amber
led to a Mughal victory and significant casualties among the Mewaris but
failed to capture Pratap, who escaped.
 Perhaps the most famous tale in connection to this battle is that of the
Maharana’s faithful horse Chetak, who made the escape possible. Chetak as
well as all the other horses employed in battle by the Mewar army had a
peculiar characteristic armour, involving a certain attachment. This invariably
helped them survive the battle thus increasing the chances of victory in the
largely cavalry based military.
 What was this characteristic armour? How was it beneficial?
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Horses were fitted with fake elephant trunks, which
made them look like baby elephants, and hence the
Mughal army elephants did not attack them

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 In October, Elizabeth Warren released the result of a DNA test showing
that she did have Native American ancestors a number of generations
ago — a result that only egged the president on and also drew criticisms
from the Cherokee Nation and others.
 Trump and his administration have accused Warren of unfairly
benefiting from her claims of Native American heritage. This often
involves Trump referring to Elizabeth Warren as X in his speeches and
tweets.
 Give X.
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 Love and Pain is a series of 6 paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The
painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck,
as the couple embrace. Although others have seen in it "a man locked in a X's
tortured embrace – her molten-red hair running along his soft bare
skin," Munch himself always claimed it showed nothing more than "just a
woman kissing a man on the neck".
 The painting was first called “X" by Munch's friend, the critic Stanisław
Przybyszewski. Przybyszewski saw the painting on exhibition and described it
as "a man who has become submissive, and on his neck a ______ X’s ____.“
 What is the alternative name, X, of the painting?
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 During the time of the Spanish-American War, in 1898, an American
mining engineer by the name of Jennings Cox created this drink to
protect his workers from yellow fever. It later became popular in the US.
 The classic X, made from nothing more than rum, lime juice and sugar
shaken with cracked ice and strained, takes its name from the place it
was invented, the mining town of X on the southeastern tip of Cuba.
 What is X?
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 Who controls the past now controls the future,
Who controls the present now controls the past,
Who controls the past now controls the future,
Who controls the present now?
 These are lyrics from the popular song "Testify" by Rage Against The
Machine.
 What is the song referring to?
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 Kim Phuc, a 55 year old Canadian lady recently received the Dresden
prize for her work for peace.
 She was honoured for her support for UNESCO and children wounded
in war, and for speaking out against violent and hatred.
 However much of the world possibly knows her for something else.
 What?
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 Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF, is
a Spanish football club based in Villarreal, a city in the province
of Castellón within the Valencian Community.
 In spite of being a low profile teams with limited finances, they have
inflicted several crucial defeats on giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona
and Atletico Madrid, and have consistently challenged them to the title.
 Because of this reason, they have been given a nickname, which may
also remind you of a hit 1969 rock number from England.
 Give the nickname.
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El Submarino Amarillo/ Yellow
Submarine

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 Map of what?
25*
1883-1914, 1919-1939, 1945-1962
1919-1939, 1945-1963, 1963-1977
1930-1939, 1945-1962
1982-2005
1977-2001, 2001-2007, 2007-2009

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1883-1914, 1919-1939, 1945-1962
1919-1939, 1945-1963, 1963-1977
1930-1939, 1945-1962
1982-2005
1977-2001, 2001-2007, 2007-2009

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 5 rounds- 2 written rounds, 2 IRs and 1 long connect.
 +10/-10 on pounces and +10/0 on direct/pass questions.
 Unlimited number of pounces per IR round.
 Teams will get a bonus of free pounces (without negatives) based on the
number of correct answers given in the preceding written round- for
example, if the team got 3 correct out of 5 in the written round, they will
get 3 pounces with non negatives in the following IR.
 All blanks are indicative.
 QMs’ decisions are final.
Rules

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Written Round 1
Movie plots explained badly

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 Name the movies whose plots are explained below:
o a)Group spends 9 hours returning jewellery
o b)Addicted girl takes advantage of mentally challenged boy for 3
decades
o c)Lack of anti virus leads to invasion
o d)Billions of dollars in subsidy for a potato farmer
o e) Paranoid billionaire afraid of an immigrant
Questions

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 a)Lord of the rings
 b)Forrest Gump
 c)Independence Day
 d)The Martian
 e)Batman Vs superman
Answers

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Infinite Rebound 1
Clockwise

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 Chempakamaran Pillai alias Venkat was an Indian-born political activist
and revolutionary. Pillai lived in Germany for most of his active years,
and died in Berlin in 1934.
 He served as the Foreign Minister for the provisional GOI set up in
Kabul in 1915 and has been associated with the so-called Indo-German
conspiracy.
 His legacy probably lives on in institutions like ours, as well as in all
Gujarati schools each morning, as of last year.
 What is his legacy?
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He popularised the term Jai Hind

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 In the Jardin des Plantes in Paris stands a small carousel, different from all
other carousels in the world.
 Called the Dodo Manège, this carousel was installed in 1992 at the inspiration
of a scientist in comparative anatomy in the adjacent natural history museum.
Sized for children, riders can climb aboard the back of creatures such as the
Barbary lion, the horned turtle, the panda, the gorilla, and many others.
 A small plaque in the front of the carousel offers a guide to these animals,
offering an ecological context to the whimsical amusement.
 How is this carousel unique?
 Images on the next slide.
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Carousel of Extinct and Endangered Animals

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 This location is 3 Savile Row in London, which was the headquarters of
Apple Corps.
 On 30th January 1969, something happened on its roof, which was
unannounced, and the sound of which caused some confusion among
spectators watching from five storeys below, many of whom were on
their lunch break. The Police grew concerned about noise and traffic
issues. Apple Corps employees initially refused to let police inside, but
reconsidered it when threatened with arrest.
 What was happening here? Also, why was this event significant?
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The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert
It was their final public performance

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o Titanic
o John F Kennedy
o Private Ryan
o Ned Stark
o Dinosaurs
o The twin towers
o Martha and Thomas Wayne.
 This is an example of a certain kind of lists that became a viral internet trend in
2014 and saw a surge every time X showed an outstanding performance.
 What are these?
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Things David De Gea could have saved

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 The International Outbreak Museum in Portland, Oregon is the world’s only
museum of its kind. It features objects collected from outbreaks of __________
________ that took place in Oregon and around the globe.
 The museum is a single windowless room in a state office building that’s home
to the Oregon Health Authority. The small room is crammed with more than
100 exhibits that fill tall glass-encased cabinets and cover every surface.
Exhibits range from freezer-aisle pot pies, cheese, breakfast cereal and frozen
pizza to tampons and home-canned beets.
 On a shelf along the back wall some tarot cards and printed mugs mark the
exhibit dedicated to an infamous person.
 What is the museum all about? Who is this special exhibit dedicated to?
 Images on the next slide
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Museum of Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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 This is a cheque which the United States Treasury sends every year.
 These cheques have not been encashed for more than 50 years as a
protest against the very reason the cheque is being sent.
 To whom are these cheques addressed and for what?
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Cuba
Occupation of Guantanamo Bay

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 Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of
constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written.
The word “c a d a e” is itself a representation of this main restriction,
while cadenza is a solo passage in music. In addition to the main
restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions or entire works of
different types and pieces of literature in story, structure and rhyme. For
example, his tribute to Poe’s famous “The Raven”, with which he starts
his book, is as follows:
o “One/A/Poem/A/Raven/Midnights/So/dreary/tired/and/weary/..
 What was the restriction?
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Pi ∏- The story includes words containing the same
number of letters as the first 3000+ digits of pi.

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 Connect:
o An iron
o A purse
o A lantern
o A race-car
o A thimble
o A shoe
o A top hat
o A battleship
o A cannon
o A rocking horse
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 Sometime during the 1790's, people had started practicing a certain thing. Soon after this
became known, the term soixante-neuf was given to it. The earliest known use appeared
in Whore's Catechisms in France. This led to the origin of term X.
 It’s worth the current iteration on how we say/pronounce “Y” in the format most likely
came about thanks to South Park, which, in an October 2006 episode, features cops replying
“Y” to a student who was reporting that another kid at South Park Elementary was having
sex with an extremely attractive kindergarten teacher.
 X and Y have been used together extensively on internet irrespective of the context and
trend continues to rise since the last decade. It’s now natural to respond with Y to anything
even closely related to X on the internet now.
 Donald Trump in a recent tweet announced that “X of our great citizens expect their
finances to improve in the next year, a 16 year high. Y!”
 The internet users immediately responded expressing their wonder if Trump made an
intentional joke or if he was simply ignorant of the context of using X and Y together.
 What are X and Y?
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 A Buzzfeed post called “Why _____ is the Worst Word ever” received more
than 4 million views.
 When the New Yorker asked readers to nominate a word to scrub from the
English language in 2012, the overwhelming consensus was to ditch ______.
 In another experiment that polled 400 people…20% people reported that
______ gave them the same reaction as fingernails on a chalkboard.
 Some say that it’s because of the way it sounds. Some say that it’s because of
what it’s associated with.
 Others say that there’s nothing wrong with it at all, and that hating on ______
has just become one of those things that people do, like eating out of tide pods
and playing with fidget spinners.
 FITB.
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 The following images show the evolution of something, through
multiple proposed designs. The final one, which is used today, is
slightly different from these proposed designs in a particular way, and
that also makes it unique among the others of its kind.
 What are these designs for? How is the final one unique?
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Flag of Greenland
Only Nordic flag without a Nordic Cross

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 Janet Airlines is a non-existent airlines, and it is the unofficial name
given to a highly classified fleet of passenger aircrafts operating out of
McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas.
 The fleet's "Janet" call sign, from which its de facto name comes, is said
to stand for "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal". They hire the pilots
and crew after repeated background checks.
 What is the primary operation of Janet Airlines?
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Transfer employees to and from Area 51

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 The X is the animal used to symbolize the International Society of
Cryptozoology and is the centrepiece of their logo, even though its existence
has now been proved.
 For years, Europeans had brushed aside tales from the native people of the
Congo- the Pygmies- about a creature that looked like a strange crossbreed. At
the turn of the 20th century, Sit Harry Johnston rescued some pygmies from the
Germans and gained their trust. They then told him about this strange
creature, and he himself went to the Congo, and sent skin and bone specimens
to London.
 After their 1901 “discovery”, they have featured in many children’s books.
These shy creatures prefer the tropical Ituri rainforests of the north-eastern
part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and like to remain hidden.
 Give X.
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 Rumors arose about X's activities during the German occupation of
France during World War II, and she was criticized for being too close
to the German occupiers. One of X's liaisons was with a German
diplomat, von Dincklage After the war, X was interrogated about her
relationship with von Dincklage, but she was not charged as a
collaborator due to extensive intervention by Winston Churchill.
 X later became a famous businesswoman.
 ID X.
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 According to some social media threads, a new analysis of two
characters from a beloved franchise has come to light.
 X, a benevolent protector and personification of everything good and
noble, is now being regarded as a terrible, scheming, puppet master,
and is being compared to Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian politician,
who first gave the idea of using unscrupulous means to achieve success
and gain power.
 Another character Y, is said to be directly inspired by Machiavelli’s
most famous book and its protagonist, and was even named
accordingly.
 ID X and Y.
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X- Albus Dumbledore
Y- Severus Snape

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o Andorra- Spain and France
o Lichtenstein- Austria and Switzerland
o Nauru- Australia
o Marshall Islands- United States of America
o Samoa- New Zealand
o X- Switzerland
 What is this an inexhaustive list of? Also, give X.
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Countries with no Armed Forces and the countries they are dependent on
X- Vatican City

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 The small town of Framlinghan in Suffolk, UK had a boost in the
number of visitors after the release of a 2017 song. The main attraction
in the town is the adjacent Framlingham Castle.
 The song is by X, who was born and raised in Framlingham, and this
song was a tribute to his hometown. The castle featured at the end of
the video as well.
 ID the singer X, and the song.
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X- Ed Sheeran
Castle on the Hill

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 The National Cathedral in Washington is an important place of worship
for all residents of the city, but the most important resident of the
cathedral does not reside on the altar, but on a stained glass window.
 On 21st July, 1974, 3 people delivered this object to the cathedral, on
behalf of the President and the people of the USA, 5 years after it was
procured.
 In preparation for mounting the 3.6 billion-year-old object, workers
sealed it between two pieces of tempered glass circled with a band of
stainless steel. The sealing was done in a nitrogen environment so that
any void between the pieces of glass would be filled with nitrogen
rather than air, preventing deterioration.
 What is this object?
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Piece of moon rock from Apollo 11 mission

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 Many conventions for this measurement have existed at different times and in
different countries. Today, the A and B series of ISO 216, which includes the
commonly used __ size, are the international standard used by almost every
country. However, in many countries in the Americas as well as in
the Philippines, the North American series of measurement is more prevalent.
 The base category is defined as having an area of 1 m2 and a dimension ratio of
1 to √2.
 Successive categories are defined by halving the preceding one across the
larger dimension.
 The significant advantage of this system is its scaling without compromising
the aspect ratio from one size to another—such that they can be reduced or
increased perfectly while making use of X.
 What is being talked about?
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Paper sizes (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, ...)

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 In Jan 2018, Philadelphia officials attempted to stop football fans from climbing
the city poles in January, but that did little to stop the Eagles fans.
 They tried various solutions- one of them being using Crisco, a shortening
made entirely of vegetable oils, to grease up the poles. This however failed
after the Eagles beat Minnesota Vikings in a NFC championship game. This led
to the city being made an offer of 110 gallons of X by Y.
 Y tweeted "@PhilyPolice heard that you maybe looking for an alternative to
@Crisco for *greasing up the poles* this weekend-can we interest you in a few
barrels of X?"
 What are X and Y?
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 In 2017, UNESCO added a new entry into the World Heritage Sites list.
The entry comprises of 15 fortification sites spread across Italy, Croatia
and Montenegro.
 7 of these are part of the Stato de Tera, or the land fortifications, and the
other 8 form the Stato de Mar, or the sea fortifications.
 What did these fortifications protect?/Why were these structures built?
 Images on the next slides.
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Fortifications of the Republic of Venice
and its trade routes

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 In May 2016, Observer reporter Dennis Flynn wrote a mock article about
a guy who missed his flight out of Germany’s Leipzig-Halle Airport a
few months prior to this, due to an uncommon situation.
 Although this article was humorously written, many people actually
missed flights out of the airport, as one of the terminals was shut down
for two days, for something, which became a worldwide phenomenon
in May 2016, garnering a lot of interest, humongous amounts of money,
and of course, a social media storm.
 What was happening in the Leipzig-Halle Airport?
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Filming of Captain America: Civil War
airport battle scene

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o Christian: 58.9%
o No religion: 29.6%
o Object to answering: 6.9%
o X: 1.5%
o Buddhism: 1.2%
o Hindu: 1.2%
 This is the list of religious affiliations in 2001 census in New Zealand. This
religion gained popularity not just in New Zealand, but all around the world,
due to an online campaign to urge Y fans to recognize themselves as X. The X
follow the "16 teachings" based on the presentation of the fictional X, such as
“X are mindful of the negative emotions which lead to the ____ ____" and “X
are guardians of peace and justice”.
 Give X and Y.
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X- Jedi (Jedism)
Y- Star Wars


o Elvis Presley’s jerky hip thrusting movements in Hound Dog
o The pioneers of Sino-American ping-pong diplomacy
o The reveal of President Nixon’s Watergate scandal
o The early investors of Apple Computer
 What in the world of cinema ties these 20th century events together?
24


 In 797 AD, the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VI was removed
from the throne by his mother Irene, who declared herself Empress.
This angered the Church, who regarded a male Roman Emperor as the
head of Christendom.
 Thus Pope Leo III sought a new candidate for the dignity, and crowned
Charlemagne as the Emperor, thus establishing the ____ _____ ______,
which was later described by French philosopher Voltaire as “This body
which was called and which still calls itself the ____ _____ ______ was in
no way ____, nor _____, nor an ______”.
 FITB.
25


Written Round 2
Food names changed


 Political (and marketing) reasons for changing names of food products
have taken place several times in the past. Here are some examples of
such “rebranding”. Fill in the missing name.
 French Fries _____a)_______________
 ____________b)________ Roses of Prophet Muhammad
 _________c)___________ Bib Label Lithiated
 Snickers ___d)__________
 __e)__ Chinese Gooseberry
Questions


 a)Freedom Fries
 b)Danish pastry
 c)7up
 d)Marathon
 e)Kiwi
Answers


Infinite Rebound 2
Counter clockwise


 Tematagi or Tematangi is an atoll in the southeastern area of
the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Tematagi is a medium-
sized atoll. It measures approximately 11.5 kilometers in length and has
a maximum width of 7 kilometers, with a land area of almost 8 square
kilometers.
 The geographical location of Tematagi offers an unique advantage to
people of a particular religion, which they can’t get anywhere else.
 Give the religion, and the advantage being talked about. Also, why is
this the only place where this advantage exists?
1


Muslims can pray in any direction here
Tematagi is the antipode of Mecca


 In the post-World War II era, the ____ experienced a huge resurgence.
So Kennedy went undercover to gather information. But when he took
the information to local authorities, they had little interest in using it.
 Struggling to make use of his findings, Kennedy approached the writers
of the Superman radio serial. It was perfect timing. With the war over
and the Nazis no longer a threat, the producers were looking for a new
villain for Superman to fight. The ___ was a great fit for the role.
 In a 16-episode series, the writers pitted the Man of Steel against the ___.
By 1948, people were publicly mocking the ____, and of course
Superman had emerged victorious.
 ID this Superman villain.
2


 Edward Theodore Gein, also known as “The Butcher of Plainfield”, was an American
murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown
of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered
that Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and
keepsakes from their bones and skin.
 The story of Ed Gein has had a lasting effect on American popular culture as
evidenced by its numerous appearances in film, music, and literature. Gein served as
the inspiration for a myriad fictional serial killers across different movies, the most
prominent ones being:
o X, a young man with multiple personality disorder, from a highly acclaimed 1960 film.
o Y, a masked murderer and cannibal, who appeared in 8 films of a franchise.
o Z, a serial killer in a multi award winning 1991 film, who had a modus operandi of
killing and skinning overweight women.
 ID X, Y and Z.
3


X- Norman Bates from Psycho
Y- Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Z- Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs


 X is the diminutive form of a word in Italian, meaning "hood" or
something that covers the head. It is believed that the Y friar, Marco
d'Aviano, was the inspiration for X.
 X has its name not from the hood but from the red-brown colour of the
hooded robes worn by monks and nuns of the Y order. The word has
been borrowed into the German language as Z and is described as,
"______ with sugar, egg yolks and cream.”
 Today, Z is still served in Viennese traditional cafés, comprising of
______ with only a few drops of cream.
 Give X, Y and Z.
4


X- Cappuccino
Y- Capuchin
Z- Kapuziner


 Because of X's geographic position, as well as its long history as a non-united
region of distinct tribes and states, there are many widely varying names for
X in different languages.
 Some of these names refer to the different tribes which originated in this
region, like Saksa (as the Finnish call it), _________ (France) and ________
(Spain). Some are simply linguistic modifications to the name of X due to
translation, like Tyksland (Denmark).
 The most interesting names are those used by the Slavic people- Niemcy
(Poland), Nemecko (Slovakia and Czech Republic), Njemacka (Croatia and
Bosnia) and Nemetorszag (Hungary). These words basically mean “land of
mute people” in the native languages.
 Give X. Why is X referred to as “land of mute people” by the Slavic people?
5


X- Germany
Because the Germans could not speak Slavic languages


 19 Crimes is a brand of wine, manufactured in the country X. Each
bottle has one of the crimes written on the cork.
 These 19 crimes are closely linked to the origin and history of X, as we
know it today.
 ID the country X. Also, why are these 19 crimes so important to them?
6


X- Australia
People in the United Kingdom found guilty of committing these 19 crimes
were deported to Australia, and they formed the white settlement there


 According to great Plinius, the X was located in the Phoenician city of
Lixus beside the river Lukos, 200 steps from the Atlantic Ocean.
 Near the town of Larache, in present day Morocco, lie the ruins of the
city of Lixus, and there is a garden at the spot where the X used to be,
but no apple trees grow there any more.
 This mythical location X is also associated with a Greek hero and his
extraordinary feats.
 ID X. Also, name the Greek hero and how he is associated to X.
7


X- Garden of the Hesperides
11th Task of Hercules was to steal the golden
apples from the garden


 Dr. Ian Stirling and several assistants used telescopes to watch
undisturbed polar bears hunting seals in the Canadian high arctic – 24
hours a day when conditions permitted, for several weeks each year, for
several years. They documented details on many hundreds of hunts,
and no bear was ever seen ________________________________.
 Just one of those myths that make you go “whoa, so cool!”, I suppose.
 What is this myth?
8


Polar bears cover their noses while hunting,
in order to appear completely white


 Some regions of England have names that originated from the names of
the medieval kingdoms which ruled them. Some parts were ruled by
Saxons while the rest were controlled by Angles.
 So “Kingdom of West Saxons”, “Kingdom of South Saxons” and other
such kingdoms have given their names to many present day counties as
well. The northern part of England was never under Saxon rules, and
comprised mainly of Northumbria and Mercia. This would explain a
doubt which has been discussed countless number of times in many
forums as well as on social media- As to why there is _____, ______,
______, _________ but no ______.
 What is being talked about?
9


There is Essex, Wessex, Sussex and
Middlesex but no Norsex


 X foods are those that conform to the Jewish dietary regulations of kashrut (dietary
law), primarily derived from Leviticus and Deuteronomy. For example,
the Torah permits only land animals that both chew the cud and have cloven
hooves. Four animals, the hare, hyrax, camel, and pig, are specifically identified as
being forbidden because they possess only one of the above characteristics.
 While most such foods are prefixed with the word “X” to indicate their accordance
with prescribed regulations, with X salt a common misconception occurs. It’s not
because of Jewish dietary guidelines that X salt got its name.
 There is nothing necessarily “non X” about regular salt at all.
 More appropriately, such non-iodised salt should be referred to as “X-ing salt”. But
certain salt companies labeled the boxes of this coarse salt “X salt” rather than “X-ing
salt”, and the name stuck.
 ID X. What really is X salt, then?
10


X- Kosher
Kosher salt is sprinkled on meat to make it kosher
(Koshering/Kashering)


 In the first quarter century after its unofficial founding during a land
auction in 1905, X was still known mainly as a major railroad hub in a
broad, underdeveloped desert valley between Utah and California. By
1930, X had only about 5,200 residents.
 The city officials and business leaders were eagerly expecting a huge
government project 30 miles southeast of X to go through. Finally in
1928, the passed the Boulder Canyon Act, and construction began. In
1933, the project was inaugurated, and received its eventual name Y in
1947. X prospered as a result of Y, with more funding and residents, and
currently is a bustling metropolis with over 2 million residents.
 Give X and Y.
11


X- Las Vegas
Y- Hoover Dam


 Hours after Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give
his speech to Congress the next day, and although the trip from the White House to Capitol Hill was
short, agents weren’t sure how to transport him safely.
 The White House did already have a specially built limousine for the president that he regularly used,
but it wasn’t bulletproof, and the Secret Service realized this could be a major problem now that the
country was at war. US government rules at the time restricted the purchase of any vehicle that cost
more than $750. It was pretty obvious that they weren’t going to get an armored car that cheap, and
certainly not in less than a day. The federal government did already have in its possession a car that
just might fit the bill, which had been sitting in a Treasury Department parking lot ever since it had
been seized years earlier.
 This car was a sight to behold. It had been painted black and green so as to look identical to Chicago’s
police cars at the time. It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden behind the
grille, along with a police scanner radio. To top it off, the 1928 Cadillac 341A Town Sedan had 3,000
pounds of armor and inch-thick bulletproof windows.
 FDR finally used this car, and it performed so well that he kept using it until his old car was fitted
with identical features.
 Why was this car lying in the Treasury Department?/Who was this car seized from?
12


Al Capone’s car, seized from him for
tax evasion


 The New Mutants is an upcoming superhero-horror film based on the
Marvel Comics team of the same name.
 It deals with a group of young children who are held within a secret
facility against their will, taught how to suppress their mutant powers,
and restricted from living their normal lives.
 The first trailer of the film featured a famous song from 1979, which
deals with similar themes. An eerie version of the song served as the
background music for the trailer, and the font used for the movie name
is also a nod to the song and its creators.
 ID the song.
13


 From early 1980s until the early 1990s, American Express was known for
cutting its interchange fee (also known as a "discount rate") to merchants and
restaurants if they accepted only American Express and no other credit or
charge cards. This prompted competitors such as VISA and Mastercard to cry
foul for a while as the tactics "locked" restaurants into American Express.
Capitalizing on this elitist image, American Express frequently mentioned
such exclusive partnerships in its advertising.
 A group of restaurants in Boston stopped accepting American Express, while
accepting and encouraging the use of Visa and Mastercard, including some
that were exclusive to American Express. The rationale was due to far lower
fees as compared to American Express' fees at the time (which were about 4%
for each transaction versus around 1.2% at the time for Visa and Mastercard).
The revolt, came to be known as the “______ ___ _____"
 FITB.
14


 One of the longest running gags in football is X struggling with his Y.
 "I was conscious of that! They are too long and sometimes the Y didn’t
work. I struggled a lot with that."
 “But, in the end, because people were showing it, I was conscious that I
was under scrutiny when doing it!” said X once.
 This problem was solved when Puma took over as his kit manager and
designed a special product to eliminate this very problem.
 Give X and Y.
15


 The trend of Xs as a fashion accessory really started during the 1920s, and continued
until the 1960s. During that period, actors such as Cary Grant, Fred Astaire and Gary
Cooper wore them regularly. The X subsequently fell into disuse until the late 2000s
when it made a comeback thanks in part to popular television shows such as Mad Men.
 As a visible fashion item there are a wide variety of ways to wear an X, ranging from
the austere to the flamboyant:
o The Presidential, perhaps the simplest
o The Winged Puff
o The Cagney
o The Astaire
o The Diagonal Shell
 ID X.
16


 Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as the X of the West or the X of El Dorado, was
a Sonoran forty-niner, a vaquero and a gold miner who became a
famous outlaw in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
 The popular legend of Joaquin Murrieta is that of a peace-loving man driven to seek
revenge when he and his brother were falsely accused of stealing a mule. His brother
was hanged, his young wife gang raped and Joaquin horsewhipped. Swearing
revenge, Joaquin hunted down all who had violated his sweetheart. He embarked on a
short but violent career that brought death to his Anglo tormentors. The state of
California then offered a reward of up to $5,000 for Joaquin "dead or alive."
 In 1919, Johnston McCulley supposedly received his inspiration for his fictional
character Don Diego de la Vega—better known as Y—from a 1854 book on Murrieta.
 X is a legendary character from English folklore, while Y is a famous fictional book and
movie character.
 ID X and Y.
17


 Over 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, and
Jewish ghettos were built in every German occupied city in Europe.
 The Nazis destroyed the ghettos after the Jews residing in them had
been either killed or transported to concentration camps.
 Surprisingly, Hitler ordered his men to preserve the Jewish Quarter of
Prague. He wanted to create something there, a prospect of amusement
for him and the Nazis, but something despicable to everyone else
around the world. Hence the Prague ghetto was never harmed in any
manner and remains intact till date.
 What did Hitler intend to do with the Prague ghetto?
18


He wanted to turn it into a Museum of
Extinct Race (Jews)


 During the Middle Ages, religion played a big role in the governance
and administration of the empires and the civilised regions of the world.
 In the second half of the 1400s, two seismic political events took place in
Europe, which kept a check on the religious balance. Christianity and
Islam were at loggerheads, and victory in both these events for either,
would have changed the course of history, but fortunately that did not
happen, and a balance was maintained.
 One of the two events took place in 1453 at one extreme end of Europe,
while the other took place in 1492 at the other end of Europe.
 What were these two events?
19


Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire and defeat of the Byzantine
Empire in 1453
Defeat of the Moorish Emirate of Granada and victory of the Castile-
Aragon Union in 1492


 Perfume oils are often diluted with a solvent, though this is not always the case. By far
the most common solvent for perfume oil dilution is ethanol or a mixture of ethanol
and water.
 Traditionally these products were named after a principal ingredient, like geranium
water, lavender water, lilac water.
 In modern perfumery, these terms are used more generically based on the
concentration of fragrance, and hence we have:
o Perfume extract (extrait): 15-40% aromatic compounds
o Eau de parfum (EdP): 10-20% aromatic compounds
o X: 5-15% aromatic compounds
o Y: Citrus type perfume with about 2-6% perfume concentrate aromatic compounds
o Splash and Aftershave: 1-3% aromatic compounds
 Give X and Y.
20


X- Eau de toilette
Y- Eau de cologne


 Two years after narrating an adaptation of X's 1898 novel ___ ___ __ ___
______ on the radio—and purportedly causing some listeners to panic,
thinking that Martians were invading Earth- Y came face to face with
the British author. Coincidentally, the two men were in San Antonio,
Texas for separate speaking engagements, and radio station KTSA
arranged for an on-air chat on October 28, 1940.
 Y, who was just 25 years old at the time, had a friendly conversation
with the 74-year-old X, who expressed his delight at meeting "my little
namesake, Y“, and joked that Y should drop the extra "e" in his name.
 ID X and Y.
21


X- H.G. Wells
Y- Orson Welles


 This 19th century Dutch painter, X, was known to have strong religious
beliefs, and his works were filled with religious references and Easter
eggs.
 One of his most famous paintings might look like a normal depiction of
an urban night scene, but on close examination, one can see hints of a
Biblical scene. There are clearly 12 people dining, around one man with
long hair. One person is seen to be departing into the shadows. Experts
believe it to be X’s version of The Last Supper, depicting Jesus, Judas and
the 12 apostles.
 ID the painter X, and the painting.
22


X- Vincent Van Gogh
Café Terrace at Night


o A 150 foot tall wall of ice around the rim heavily guarded by X
employees
o Two spheres of 51 km diameter moving in circles 4,828 km above the
plane in question
o Upward acceleration at 9.8 m/s^2 driven by a mysterious force called
dark energy
o Rigging of GPS devices to fool airplane pilots
 These are postulates to explain a particular theory.
 What theory? Also, give X.
23


 Zabibah and the King is a romance novel, originally published anonymously in X in
2000, that was written by Y.
 These are some of the characters in the novel:
o 'Arab- The protagonist of the story, the novel follows 'Arab as he becomes King of X. The
character represents Y.
o Zabibah- A poor woman in an unhappy marriage, she is the love interest of 'Arab. Zabibah
represents the people of X.
o Zabibah's husband- A cruel man. This unnamed character symbolizes the United States.
o Hezkel- An emir and an antagonist to 'Arab. Zabibah lives in a small hut next to Hezkel's
palace. Hezkel represents Israel.
o Shamil- Another enemy of 'Arab, Shamil represents both Jews and merchants.
o Nuri Chalabi- An antagonist to 'Arab and a feudal lord. His character represents Ahmed
Chalabi, leader of the X National Congress, an American-funded opposition movement.
 ID X and Y.
24


 People had various different motives for attempting this feat. The
various methods used to achieve this were:
o Underground tunnels
o Using meat hooks
o On a tightrope- tried by one acrobat
o Using a zip-line
o Refrigerated trucks
o Home made hot air balloon- used once in 1979
o Using Playboy Club membership cards
 What feat is being talked about? Also, how did the Playboy Club
membership cards help in achieving this feat?
25


Crossing the Berlin Wall
The cards looked like diplomatic passports


 10 clues.
 Points for answering on each clue is given on the slides.
 Unlimited number of attempts allowed.
Rules

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