Prelims
1
FITB
• ______________--> C. N. Annadurai
• Odai Pillayar Koil --> M. G. Ramachandran
• Auxilium college Roundana --> K Kamaraj
• Kalyana Mandabam --> Periyar E.V.
  Ramaswamy
• Kangeyanallore Road --> B.R Ambedkar
• Chittoor Bus Stand.
• These are the people whose statues are found
  at various locations in Vellore.
2
Who/What made this game?
• PETA.
3

X, according to legend, died of complications resulting from
a strained bladder at a banquet. As it was considered
extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal
was finished, he stayed until he became fatally ill. This
version of events has since been brought into question as
other causes of death which include murder by his student,
suicide, and mercury poisoning among others, have come
to the fore.

Id X.
• Tycho Brahe
4
An eleven-year old boy from Chandigarh reportedly issued a legal notice to a
company raising objection to the use of his first name X in their ad, citing the
reason as harassment by school mates due to similarity in names. He claimed
Rs. 1 Crore in compensation and asked for the removal of the ad.

The company has said that the advertisement is a work of fiction, and that
the characters and situations are fictional and do not in any way represent a
situation close to an eleven-year old and that while it sympathises with the
child in question, the character in question is not X but XY.

It said that the name XY was selected, post looking at phone books plus an
extensive Google search in order to ascertain the non-existence of any such
person - so as to avert causing offense to anybody inadvertently.

Give me XY.
• Hari Sadu.
5
• In cricketing parlance, the word “X" is used to describe the
  stock delivery of a left-arm "unorthodox" spin bowler
  (though some reserve it for the googly delivery). The name
  has its origins in a Test match played between the West
  Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year
  1933. Elliss "Puss" Achong, was a left-arm orthodox
  spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time. According
  to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins
  stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-
  hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to
  the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being
  done by a bloody X!", leading to the popularity of the term
  in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.
• What term?
• Chinaman.
6*
• The 2010 Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by
  sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in
  Egypt. On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian
  were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and on 5
  December 2010 a German woman was killed, when they were
  attacked while wading or snorkeling near the shoreline. The attacks
  were described as "unprecedented" by shark experts.
  The attacks also sparked conspiracy theories about possible
  involvement by ________. Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha, the
  governor of South Sinai, told the state news website egynews.net:
  "What is being said about the X throwing the deadly shark [in the
  sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs
  time to confirm."

• X?
• Mossad/Israel
7
• The film is called both X2 and X3 in media
  reports. The lead actor confirmed that on similar
  lines as with the Rambo franchise (where the first
  movie was called First Blood, then came Rambo
  and then Rambo 3), the film will be called X3. The
  Director also clarified the title to another media
  source, stating "The film is titled X3, not X2.“
• X3's script had to be re-written because it was
  too similar to Spider-Man 3.

• Which movie?
• Krrish 3.
8*
•   There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent
    being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain."
    According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write
    the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining
    the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the
    reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as
    Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, ___________. The phenomenon
    has been known since at least May 26, 2008, when a wiki page was created by
    user Mark J. Two days later, it was mentioned in episode 50 of the podcast
    Wikipedia Weekly, which may have been the first public mention of it.

Following the chain consists of:
• Clicking on the first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link
• Ignoring external links, links to the current page, or red links
• Stopping when reaching "____________", a page with no links or a page that does
    not exist, or when a loop occurs.

•   What am I talking about?
• All (Wikipedia) pages lead to philosophy
9
• X is a small town and comune of approximately 12,000
  inhabitants in the Province of Palermo, Italy. The most
  notable recent event in X was the arrest in 2006 of
  Bernardo Provenzano, "Boss of Bosses", who had been
  in hiding for more than 40 years. This gave rise to much
  celebration. "Liberation Day" on April 11 (the date of
  Provenzano's capture) and naming a street "11 Aprile"
  shows just how much the arrest has affected X.
  Gaetano Riina, X's recent mob boss, was arrested on
  July 1, 2011.

• X?
• Corleone.
10
• "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

• The program on the computer did not run correctly
  because of the input errors into the system—computing
  (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule) the wrong
  question thus giving a "wrong" answer.

• It was observed that the answer given was right if the
  question was assumed to be in base13. X later joked about
  this observation, saying, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't
  write jokes in base 13."

• What am I talking about?/X?
42
11
• This is a picture of Lake Lauenensee,
  Switzerland. It is also referred to as the X Lake.
  Who is X?
• The Chopra Lake after Yash Chopra.
12
• Film School Rejects asked Skyfall producers, and keyholders to the
  James Bond universe, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli why
  X, who has long told anyone who’d listen he wants to make a Bond
  film, has yet to do so. Here was Broccoli’s response:

• Well, early on it was very sweet, because when he was a young
  filmmaker he approached my father. My dad said, ‘Yeah, kid, ya
  gotta get some more [films] under your belt. Years later, when he
  did Y, my father wrote to him about how much he loved it. X then
  sent a really sweet note saying, ‘Now will you let me direct a Bond
  movie?’ [Laughs] My father said, ‘Now I can’t afford you!’ That’s the
  way of the world.

• X.
• Steven Spielberg.
13
Happy Halloween. Which movie is being
referred here?
Back to The Future
14
• X may have originated in the city of Piedras Negras,
  Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass,
  Texas,or in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, at a restaurant
  called the Victory Club, owned by Rodolfo De Los Santos. In
  1943, the wives of ten to twelve U.S. soldiers stationed at
  Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on
  a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had
  closed for the day. The maître d'hôtel, Ignacio "X" Anaya,
  invented a new snack for them with what little he had
  available in the kitchen and served them.
• When asked what the dish was called, he answered, "X's
  especiales". As word of the dish traveled, the apostrophe
  was lost. What did he serve them?
• Nachos.
15
• In the 1933 movie Karma what first did Devika
  Rani and Himanshu Rai achieve?
• First kiss in Indian cinema.
16*
•   Israel: Israel Israeli
•   Belgium: Jan met de Pet
•   Costa Rice: Juan Perez
•   Poland: Jan Kowalski
•   Slovenia: Janez Novak
•   India: Ashok Kumar
•   USA:?
• John Doe.(Placeholder names in different
  countries.)
17
• Any body passing through solid matter (usually at high velocities)
  will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter (the "silhouette
  of passage").
• Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble
  tunnel entrances; others cannot. Corollary: Portable holes work.
• All principles of gravity are negated by fear
• Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. (In
  other words, cats heal fast and/or have an infinite number of lives.)
  Corollary: Cats can fit into unusually small spaces.
• Everything falls faster than an anvil.
• Any vehicle on a path of travel is at a state of indeterminacy until an
  object enters a location in the path of travel.

What are these?
• Laws of Cartoon Physics.
18
• Though many have been related, a definitive
  back-story has never been established for X,
  and his real name has never been confirmed.
  He himself is confused as to what actually
  happened; he says, "Sometimes I remember it
  one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to
  have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!
  Ha ha ha!“
  X?
• Joker.
19*
• Taken from the Uncyclopedia page :Making up X quotes.
“Why the hell do you people keep quoting me?”
~ X on this page
“Quotes are like my penis, everybody has seen it and they laugh
   uncontrollably.”
~ X on this page
Officially listed as the National Sport of England, making up X quotes is
   widely regarded as the greatest spectator sport ever invented, with
   the possible exceptions of Sudden Death Twister and Sockey.

• And remember:
• “The key to making up X quotes is to add '~ X' at the end.”
• ~X
• X-Oscar Wilde.
20
• The phrase X was popularized by a little children's story
  published by John Newbery in London in 1765. X is a
  variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of X, the
  nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell,
  who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is
  given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy
  that she tells everyone that she has two shoes. Later,
  Margery becomes a teacher and marries a rich widower.
  This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness
  has been rewarded, a popular theme in children's literature
  of the era.

• Which phrase?
• Goody two-shoes.
21
Screenprint on Frank D’Amico’s wall in Kick-Ass.
Artist?
• Andy Warhol.
22
• For the first 19 years of its existence the company's English
  name was "Legend". In 2002, Yang Yuanqing came to the
  conclusion that the company would have to abandon the
  use of the Legend brand name in order to develop outside
  of China, as the "Legend" name was already in use by a
  large number of other businesses worldwide, and its
  ubiquitous nature made it impossible to register in most
  markets.In April 2003, the company publicly announced its
  new name which was a portmanteau of Legend and a latin
  ablative for new.

• Which company?
• Lenovo.
23
• Urbandictionary: Device used to notify others
  that they are in the presence of a dickhead.
  The point may be reinforced by the wearer
  displaying said item at alternative angles,
  particularly back-to-front especially when
  facing the sun.

  What?
• Baseball Cap.
24
• His stage name is an alteration of a latin phrase which
  translate's to good voice. It is said he was nicknamed
  this by his friend Gavin Friday. Initially he disliked the
  name but when he learned it loosely transalated to
  good voice, he accepted it. He's been known by the
  first part of this nickname since the late 70's. He was
  given an honorary knighthood by the queen and was
  listed as one of the greatest Briton in a poll conducted
  among the general public, despite the fact that he is
  Irish.
• Who?
• Bono.
25*
• X was a part of a smoking club in high school called the
  Choom Gang. X had strict protocols for his weed-happy
  group. As a member of the Choom Gang, exhaling
  prematurely got you penalized. If you failed to hold the
  smoke, "you were assessed a penalty and your turn was
  skipped the next time the joint came around." "When a
  joint was making the rounds, X often elbowed his way in,
  out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!,' and took an extra hit." X
  also invented "roof hits" in which the Choom Gang would
  roll up the windows of a car and smoke inside. Once all the
  weed was gone, they would tilt their heads back and suck
  in the remaining smoke from the car ceiling.
  Who is X?
• Barack Obama.

Monishita and Hadi's QotM - Prelims

  • 1.
  • 2.
    1 FITB • ______________--> C.N. Annadurai • Odai Pillayar Koil --> M. G. Ramachandran • Auxilium college Roundana --> K Kamaraj • Kalyana Mandabam --> Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy • Kangeyanallore Road --> B.R Ambedkar
  • 3.
    • Chittoor BusStand. • These are the people whose statues are found at various locations in Vellore.
  • 4.
  • 6.
  • 7.
    3 X, according tolegend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. As it was considered extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, he stayed until he became fatally ill. This version of events has since been brought into question as other causes of death which include murder by his student, suicide, and mercury poisoning among others, have come to the fore. Id X.
  • 8.
  • 9.
    4 An eleven-year oldboy from Chandigarh reportedly issued a legal notice to a company raising objection to the use of his first name X in their ad, citing the reason as harassment by school mates due to similarity in names. He claimed Rs. 1 Crore in compensation and asked for the removal of the ad. The company has said that the advertisement is a work of fiction, and that the characters and situations are fictional and do not in any way represent a situation close to an eleven-year old and that while it sympathises with the child in question, the character in question is not X but XY. It said that the name XY was selected, post looking at phone books plus an extensive Google search in order to ascertain the non-existence of any such person - so as to avert causing offense to anybody inadvertently. Give me XY.
  • 10.
  • 11.
    5 • In cricketingparlance, the word “X" is used to describe the stock delivery of a left-arm "unorthodox" spin bowler (though some reserve it for the googly delivery). The name has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. Elliss "Puss" Achong, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time. According to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right- hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being done by a bloody X!", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world. • What term?
  • 12.
  • 13.
    6* • The 2010Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and on 5 December 2010 a German woman was killed, when they were attacked while wading or snorkeling near the shoreline. The attacks were described as "unprecedented" by shark experts. The attacks also sparked conspiracy theories about possible involvement by ________. Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha, the governor of South Sinai, told the state news website egynews.net: "What is being said about the X throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm." • X?
  • 14.
  • 15.
    7 • The filmis called both X2 and X3 in media reports. The lead actor confirmed that on similar lines as with the Rambo franchise (where the first movie was called First Blood, then came Rambo and then Rambo 3), the film will be called X3. The Director also clarified the title to another media source, stating "The film is titled X3, not X2.“ • X3's script had to be re-written because it was too similar to Spider-Man 3. • Which movie?
  • 16.
  • 17.
    8* • There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain." According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, ___________. The phenomenon has been known since at least May 26, 2008, when a wiki page was created by user Mark J. Two days later, it was mentioned in episode 50 of the podcast Wikipedia Weekly, which may have been the first public mention of it. Following the chain consists of: • Clicking on the first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link • Ignoring external links, links to the current page, or red links • Stopping when reaching "____________", a page with no links or a page that does not exist, or when a loop occurs. • What am I talking about?
  • 18.
    • All (Wikipedia)pages lead to philosophy
  • 19.
    9 • X isa small town and comune of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the Province of Palermo, Italy. The most notable recent event in X was the arrest in 2006 of Bernardo Provenzano, "Boss of Bosses", who had been in hiding for more than 40 years. This gave rise to much celebration. "Liberation Day" on April 11 (the date of Provenzano's capture) and naming a street "11 Aprile" shows just how much the arrest has affected X. Gaetano Riina, X's recent mob boss, was arrested on July 1, 2011. • X?
  • 20.
  • 21.
    10 • "What doyou get if you multiply six by nine?" • The program on the computer did not run correctly because of the input errors into the system—computing (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule) the wrong question thus giving a "wrong" answer. • It was observed that the answer given was right if the question was assumed to be in base13. X later joked about this observation, saying, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." • What am I talking about?/X?
  • 22.
  • 23.
    11 • This isa picture of Lake Lauenensee, Switzerland. It is also referred to as the X Lake. Who is X?
  • 24.
    • The ChopraLake after Yash Chopra.
  • 25.
    12 • Film SchoolRejects asked Skyfall producers, and keyholders to the James Bond universe, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli why X, who has long told anyone who’d listen he wants to make a Bond film, has yet to do so. Here was Broccoli’s response: • Well, early on it was very sweet, because when he was a young filmmaker he approached my father. My dad said, ‘Yeah, kid, ya gotta get some more [films] under your belt. Years later, when he did Y, my father wrote to him about how much he loved it. X then sent a really sweet note saying, ‘Now will you let me direct a Bond movie?’ [Laughs] My father said, ‘Now I can’t afford you!’ That’s the way of the world. • X.
  • 26.
  • 27.
    13 Happy Halloween. Whichmovie is being referred here?
  • 28.
  • 29.
    14 • X mayhave originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas,or in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, at a restaurant called the Victory Club, owned by Rodolfo De Los Santos. In 1943, the wives of ten to twelve U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had closed for the day. The maître d'hôtel, Ignacio "X" Anaya, invented a new snack for them with what little he had available in the kitchen and served them. • When asked what the dish was called, he answered, "X's especiales". As word of the dish traveled, the apostrophe was lost. What did he serve them?
  • 30.
  • 31.
    15 • In the1933 movie Karma what first did Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai achieve?
  • 32.
    • First kissin Indian cinema.
  • 33.
    16* • Israel: Israel Israeli • Belgium: Jan met de Pet • Costa Rice: Juan Perez • Poland: Jan Kowalski • Slovenia: Janez Novak • India: Ashok Kumar • USA:?
  • 34.
    • John Doe.(Placeholdernames in different countries.)
  • 35.
    17 • Any bodypassing through solid matter (usually at high velocities) will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter (the "silhouette of passage"). • Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. Corollary: Portable holes work. • All principles of gravity are negated by fear • Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. (In other words, cats heal fast and/or have an infinite number of lives.) Corollary: Cats can fit into unusually small spaces. • Everything falls faster than an anvil. • Any vehicle on a path of travel is at a state of indeterminacy until an object enters a location in the path of travel. What are these?
  • 36.
    • Laws ofCartoon Physics.
  • 37.
    18 • Though manyhave been related, a definitive back-story has never been established for X, and his real name has never been confirmed. He himself is confused as to what actually happened; he says, "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Ha ha ha!“ X?
  • 38.
  • 39.
    19* • Taken fromthe Uncyclopedia page :Making up X quotes. “Why the hell do you people keep quoting me?” ~ X on this page “Quotes are like my penis, everybody has seen it and they laugh uncontrollably.” ~ X on this page Officially listed as the National Sport of England, making up X quotes is widely regarded as the greatest spectator sport ever invented, with the possible exceptions of Sudden Death Twister and Sockey. • And remember: • “The key to making up X quotes is to add '~ X' at the end.” • ~X
  • 40.
  • 41.
    20 • The phraseX was popularized by a little children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. X is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of X, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy that she tells everyone that she has two shoes. Later, Margery becomes a teacher and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children's literature of the era. • Which phrase?
  • 42.
  • 43.
    21 Screenprint on FrankD’Amico’s wall in Kick-Ass. Artist?
  • 44.
  • 45.
    22 • For thefirst 19 years of its existence the company's English name was "Legend". In 2002, Yang Yuanqing came to the conclusion that the company would have to abandon the use of the Legend brand name in order to develop outside of China, as the "Legend" name was already in use by a large number of other businesses worldwide, and its ubiquitous nature made it impossible to register in most markets.In April 2003, the company publicly announced its new name which was a portmanteau of Legend and a latin ablative for new. • Which company?
  • 46.
  • 47.
    23 • Urbandictionary: Deviceused to notify others that they are in the presence of a dickhead. The point may be reinforced by the wearer displaying said item at alternative angles, particularly back-to-front especially when facing the sun. What?
  • 48.
  • 49.
    24 • His stagename is an alteration of a latin phrase which translate's to good voice. It is said he was nicknamed this by his friend Gavin Friday. Initially he disliked the name but when he learned it loosely transalated to good voice, he accepted it. He's been known by the first part of this nickname since the late 70's. He was given an honorary knighthood by the queen and was listed as one of the greatest Briton in a poll conducted among the general public, despite the fact that he is Irish. • Who?
  • 50.
  • 51.
    25* • X wasa part of a smoking club in high school called the Choom Gang. X had strict protocols for his weed-happy group. As a member of the Choom Gang, exhaling prematurely got you penalized. If you failed to hold the smoke, "you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around." "When a joint was making the rounds, X often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!,' and took an extra hit." X also invented "roof hits" in which the Choom Gang would roll up the windows of a car and smoke inside. Once all the weed was gone, they would tilt their heads back and suck in the remaining smoke from the car ceiling. Who is X?
  • 52.