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The document contains a series of trivia questions and answers covering various topics, including sports, movies, literature, music, and historical events. Each question is paired with its corresponding answer, with some marked as important or requiring further explanation. The document serves as a quiz or informational resource aimed at testing knowledge across diverse fields.

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PRELIMS WITH ANSWERS Question numbers 1,5,10,15,20 are star-marked
*1) Name the tournament. Club Number of times they have won the title X 37 Y 29 Z 11 Dalhousie 4 Durham Light Infantry 3 Black Watch 2 Gordon Light Infantry 2 King’s Regiment 2 N Staffordshire Regiment 2 Royal Irish Rifles 2 Scottish Borderers 1
Answer: Calcutta Football League
2)What’s the good word?/ Id X. ■ X is a genus of rhizostome jellyfish with only one known species X reiki, found off the central eastern coast of Australia. ■ The term X is also given to a seven-string harp, and the straight radial canals of this new species are reminiscent of such strings. ■ Euglossa X is a euglossine bee species found in Brazil. ■ The term X has a colloquial meaning. It means, “fooled you!”.
Answer: Bazinga!
3)What does this map depict?/Put funda.
Answer: Route of marathon at 1908 Olympics which became the modern standard distance for marathon- 42km,385yards.
4) Minimalist poster of which movie?
Answer: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
*5) What is being talked about here? The basic principle is that each team in a limited overs match has two resources available with which to score runs: wickets remaining and overs to play. Where overs are lost, setting an adjusted target for the team batting second is not as simple as reducing the run target proportionally to the loss in overs, because a team with ten wickets in hand and 25 overs to bat can be expected to play more aggressively than if they had ten wickets and a full 50 overs, for example, and can consequently achieve a higher run rate.
Answer: Duckworth-Lewis method
6) Identify X and Y. "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" The above quotation was introduced to X by his editor, who was himself an author of repute in the same genre, in 1941. Inspired by the above, X went on to base one of his most famous short stories Y on the quote. Y was then adapted into a full-fledged novel in 1989 by X, a few years before his death.
Answer: X - Isaac Asimov Y - Nightfall
7) Id X. The word was first used in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in 1933. Eliss “Puss” Achong, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, who represented West Indies in that match. Achong is said to have had Walter Robins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump. A frustrated Robins on his walk back to the pavilion said to the umpire, “fancy being done by a bloody X”. Some of the popular X bowlers are – Paul Adams, Inshan Ali, Michael Bevan, Brad Hogg, Simon Katich and Garfield Sobers.
Answer: Chinaman
8) Why? Medal of Honor is a first-person shooter video game developed by Danger Close Games and EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts.The game was released on October 12, 2010. US military officials banned the sale of the game in military bases "out of respect for the men and women serving and their families."
Answer: Players could play as the Taliban.
9) Id the song X, which propelled Y as an international star. “X" was first promoted during a TV spot for the NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" show, where the single was the part of the jingle. The single was played every Thursday in pre-game shows and began on 13 September 2013. A different promo aired every week with Y wearing jerseys of each of the two teams playing that week. Y also said that 33 different looks were designed for the commercial based on the teams.
Answer: X-In my city Y-Priyanka Chopra
*10) Shown below is a painting titled “The Balance of Terror”. It depicts two groups of people in black and white savagely killing each other, and talks about the concept of absolute power. This painting is seen in the trailer of a 2016 movie and acts as a means of foreshadowing the events of the movie, showing the two warring “groups”. ID the movie.
Answer: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
11) Id X. The word X itself if of unknown origin. One explanation is that it is a derivative of ______, a Middle French word for shepherd’s stave. The curved or “hooked” ends of the sticks used for X would indeed have resembled these staves. Another explanation is that the cork bungs that replaced wooden balls in the 18th century came from barrels containing “____” ale, also called “_____”.
Answer: Hockey French word is hoques. “hocky” ale
12) Which genre of music am I talking about? Stylistic Origins Cultural Origins Typical Instruments Derivative Forms Blues Rock Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States Electric guitar Bass Guitar Drums Vocals Grunge
Answer: Heavy Metal (or metal)
13) What is this Mental Floss article talking about? If you’ve ever noticed the scoring system’s similarity to a clock face, you’re not alone. “That’s the theory I think is most common—that you’re just playing your way around the clock,” Carillo said. It makes even more sense when you know that in medieval numerology, the number 60 was considered a nice, round number, the way 100 is a satisfying set of digits today. Finally, the Europeans were preoccupied with astronomy and sextant (one-sixth of a circle), which is 60 degrees, so they may have scored the game around the completion of a perfect circle."
Answer: Scoring system in tennis.
14) Id X. Tokusatsu is a form of Japanese entertainment that uses considerable amount of special effects. One of the most popular genre of this form of entertainment is Kaiju which literally means strange creatures. X is one of the most famous Kaiju , also appearing first in a film in 1954 and then has gone on to become a pop culture icon..
Answer: Godzilla
*15) Whose Wikipedia page? Born Nickname Highest Ranking Career Winnings Highest Break Century Breaks Best Ranking Finish 24th July, 1985(age 31) The Prince of _____ The Golden Boy 56 (2013/2014) 56,763 pounds Snooker: 136 (2014 China Open qualifying) Billiards:876 16 Quarter Finals ( 2013 Welsh Open, 2013 Indian Open)
Answer: Pankaj Advani
16) Id X & Y. Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band X for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album “Chinese Democracy”. X and Universal Music Group’s Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. arm of Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to song by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss. Singer Y and X band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss’ songs – “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangley Isolated Place” – for a song used on the band’s last album called “Riad N’ the Bedouins”, according to the lawsuit.
Answer: X- Guns N’ Roses Y- Axl Rose
17) Connect.
Answer: NBA Arena Sponsors.
18) Id X. X blades are said to be lighter, stronger, and sharper than even the best castle- forged steel, and feature distinctive rippled patterns similar to Damascus steel. Only the greatest weapon smiths can reforge swords from existing X, but the secret of creating such an alloy was apparently lost.
Answer: Valyrian steel
19) What sport? Modern _____ athletes use small fiberglass ______ called shells which sit on stainless steel blades that curve up to support the legs and feet that extend beyond the shell. The athlete wears a super light helmet of synthetic materials or fiberglass, and the body suit is designed to create the least amount of wind resistance. The gloves have sharp metal spikes on three fingers. Even the shoes are special and must be made according to international regulations to be legal.
Answer: Luge
20) Id X. X is a series of computer games developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first title of the series was X, released in 1997.It was one of the first history- based real-time strategy games made, utilizing the Genie game engine. GameSpot described it as a mix of Civilization and Warcraft.
Answer: Age of empires
INFINITE POUNCE AND BOUNCE ENT ROUND • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce. • Clockwise
1) Id X & Y. The acronym EGOT that expands to - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony - 4 of the biggest awards in the global entertainment industry. X, after winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is said to be a contender for PEGOT, with the prefix "P" standing for Pulitzer. Till date, there are only 2 people who can claim to have this distinguished honor. He won the Pulitzer for his Broadway hit Y, about a man who X claims to have lived the the archetypal hip-hop story.
Answer: ■ X- Lin Manuel Miranda ■ Y- Hamilton
2) Id X, Y and the film in question X and Y found a clever way to choose the right studio for their script: the story goes that on page 60 of the script, they wrote a completely out-of-nowhere sex scene between Will and Chuckie. They took it to every major studio, and nobody even mentioned the scene. When they met with Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, he said, "I only have one really big note on the script. About page 60, the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that?" - X and Y explained that they put that scene specifically in there to show them who actually read the script and who didn't. As Weinstein was the only person who brought it up, Miramax was the studio chosen to produce the film.
Answer: ■ X- Matt Damon ■ Y- Ben Affleck ■ Z- Good Will Hunting
3) Id X & Y. X is a famous tragicomedy novel written by a very well known British author. Major themes in the novel are class, politics and social issues like that of drugs, prostitution and rape. The novel was the fastest-selling in the United Kingdom in three years and had the second best-selling opening week there since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. The book is being adapted into a BBC television drama for release in 2014.A Sikh family plays an important part in the novel, and the description of the character Sukhvinder sparked some controversy amongst followers of the Sikh faith. The author Y stated that she admires the Sikh religion and had done a vast amount of research on Sikhism. Other members of the Sikh community appreciated the fact that she portrayed Sikhs and Sikhism in a favourable light and actually draws attention to the racism that Sikhs face.
Answer: X- J.K.Rowling. Y- The Casual Vacancy
4) Id X. On October 22, 2008, Microsoft announced that Fallout 3 would not be released in India on the Xbox 360 platform, with religious and cultural sentiments being cited as the reason. They stated, "Microsoft constantly endeavours to bring the best games to Indian consumers in sync with their international release. However, in light of cultural sensitivities in India, we have made the business decision to not bring Fallout 3 into the country.“ Although the specific reason was not revealed in public, it is possible that it is because the game contains two-headed mutated cows called X.
Answer: Brahmin
5) Id X, Y & Z. The music video of this hit single X by an American pop band Z in 2014 was inspired by the 2005 rom-com Y. Shot in Los Angeles, it features the lead vocalists visiting ballrooms in the city to interrupt -------- that are taking place there and performing surprise renditions of X. Despite accusations that several of the -------- in the video were staged, X went on to peak at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, also becoming in the process the band's eighth consecutive top 10 hit.
Answer: X- Sugar Y- Wedding Crashers Z- Maroon 5
6) Id X. Throughout most of his life he believed that he was only a part of one personality; what he called the four __X__s, his father, his dead brother, himself, and Jesus Christ (called __X__ in his native tongue).In addition to being a painter, he also designed shirts, hats, ashtrays, stamps, brandy bottles, coat hangers, bathing suits, crystal ware, tapestries, and playing cards.He designed the sets used in the dream sequence of Alfred Hitchock’s Spellbound in 1946. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike quality to his film, which dealt with the idea that a repressed experience can directly trigger a neurosis, and he knew that __X__’s work would help create the atmosphere he wanted in his film.
Answer: Salvador Dali
7) Identify X and Y, and what tactic was used? In the Mad Max universe, Immortan Joe is a warlord who rules over the "Citadel" - a cluster of three rock towers that sit above an aquifer of relatively fresh water. The citadel was taken over by him before the events of "Fury Road". The tall rocks of the citadel were a very strong defence and he failed in his first attempt. He takes inspiration from a real-life tactic used by a decorated war general X, who is wrongly identified in the comics as a Persian but was actually a Y.
Answer: X – Tanaji Y – Maratha He used a monitor lizard with a rope tied around its waist for climbing up the steep vertical rock face.
8) Who are we talking about? Initially they called themselves __ King after BB King. Then they decided, __ King was too similar to BB King and since BB King was at the top of the blues world they called themselves by their current name.
Answer: ZZ Top
9) What do the books consist of? Conceptual artist Aram Bartholl has created an art installation consisting of eight books with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Visitors to the exhibit are invited to open to books and check if their entries are present. There are around 4.7 million entries sourced from a single source. The exhibit is provocatively titled, “Forgot your ___?”.
Answer: Password
10) What is being described? (1) Think of the hair as two croquet hoops. The nose curves up just a bit. The mouth is constructed like two coconut halves. The collars rests a trifle below the chin line. (2) The hair is hiding two bowling balls. Same lashes as (4) and (5) (3) Basic head shape is kinda like a tin can. Slight flare at the top of the head. Has nine points of hair. (4)Has 8 points of hair constructed in groups of 3,3,2. Necklace is off- center on her neck. (5)Almost similar to (4) except hair is stubbier and has only 3 eyelashes.
Answer: The steps that the animators of the Simpsons follow.
11) Name the movies from these 4 badly explained movie plots. (question carries 20 points) 1. Depressed, widowed father teams up with mentally challenged woman to find his disabled son. 2. Older sister ruins younger sister’s chance to be on nationally televised game show. 3. Young man finds his mentally unstable father, convinces him to murder an elderly politician. 4. A billionaire devotes his fortune to cosplay and beating up the mentally ill.
Answer: 1: Finding Nemo 2: Hunger Games 3: Star Wars 4: Batman: The Dark Knight
MINIMALIST POSTERS • +5 for each and +20 if you get all of them right. • Films, TV Series, Music
1) Id the Film.
Answer:
2) Id the TV Series.
Answer:
3) Id the musician.
Answer: Jimmi Hendrix
4) Id the film.
Answer:
5) Id the TV Series.
Answer:
6) Id the song/band.
Answer:
7) Id the film.
Answer:
8) Id the TV Series.
Answer:
9) Id the musician.
Answer: Bob Dylan
FOOTBALL ROUND • 6 questions • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce.(you can pounce on your own questions) • Anti-Clockwise
1) Put funda. The song “Greatest Day” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's eleventh UK number-one single. It has since been certified Gold in the United Kingdom selling over 520,000 copies. In March 2014, a re-recorded version of the song - featuring vocals from Barlow and other pop singers like Eliza Doolittle, Katy B and Spice Girls Melanie C and Emma Bunton, and former footballers such as ____ _______ and _______ ____ . It was however never officially released.
Answer: It was announced as the official song for the England football team at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The two blanked out names are Gary Lineker and Michael Owen.
2) Id X. Name the autobiography. X tells the story of how his own single- mindedness and drive made up for a lack of footballing talent. While there are tales of growing up with the class of ’92, playing for England and more, all interspred with forthright views on loyalty and playing the modern game. Even non-United fans would find this a good read.
Answer: Gary Neville Name of the autobiography is “Red”.
3)Why did their kit come into spotlight earlier this year? On social media, the images of the Palencia CF (a team which plays in the Spanish fourth division) kit were accompanied by the hashtag Nosdejamoslapiel, which literally translates to “we give our skin”. The expression means to give one’s all.
Answer: Their jerseys/kits reproduce the human anatomy, specifically bones and muscles.
4)What is being talked about here? “If the ball has passed a player and has come from the direction of his own goal, he may not touch it till the other side have kicked it, unless there are more than three of the other side before him. No player is allowed to loiter between the ball and the adversaries’ goal.”
Answer: offside
5) Identify the player./Put funda.
Answer:
INFINTE BOUNCE AND POUNCE SPORTS ROUND • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce. • Clockwise
1) Id X. After the Athens Olympics, X took a year away from swimming, scheduling a return for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. However, he was forced due to illness. Subsequent training camps were interrupted and he announced his retirement in November 2006, citing waning motivation. From early 2011, there was a speculation about X’s return to swimming, fuelled by people claiming to have seen him training. The speculations were substantiated when X spoke at a February 2011 press conference of his return to swimming four years away, with the aim of competing in the 2012 London Olympic Games. X competed at Australia’s Olympic Trials in 2012, but failed to make the team.
Answer: Ian Thorpe
2) What moniker is given to the match he is talking about? “In the strained political situation we were in, it was a body-to-body encounter with our opponents. Now I have to admit that I’m convinced even the referee was pulling for us. We were a mall country battling the huge Soviet Goliath.”
Answer: Blood in the Water match. (Water Polo match between Hungary and USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.)
3) Id the Sport. This is one of the very few mixed gender team sports. It is played by two teams of eight players with either eight females in each team or with four females and four males in each team. The objective of the sport is to throw a ball through a bottomless basket that is mounted on a 3.5m(11.5 ft) high pole. The sport is invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands, there are around 580 clubs and over 100,000 people playing this sport. This sport has a mixed gender league and all-women league, but no all-men league. The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan.
Answer: Korfball
4) Who is X? During a chess tournament held in the year 1988, X met Saheli Dhar, a teenage Chess player. When playing a match, he offered her a draw but she refused the offer and defeated him to win the game, which impressed him a lot. Further, both of them were selected for the National Chess team, representing the nation at Lloyds Bank Tournament 1991 held at London. X would then go on to marry Saheli.
Answer: Dibyendu Barua
5) What is the key difference between this sport and pole vault? Fierljeppen is a traditional sport of the Frisians and of the Dutch. The sport is similar to pole vault. The pole is between 8 and 13 m long and has a flat round plate at the bottom to prevent it from sinking into the muddy river or canal bottom.
Answer: Leap is for the distance and not the height.
6) Which company? On November 8th , 1993, this was incorporated as a company with its registered office in New Delhi. The same chaps who founded another entity five years earlier were the promoters of this entity. Originally, life members paid Rs.100 and ordinary members paid Rs.10 for entrance and an annual subscription of Rs.15. This place was also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-style dish Chicken Manchurian; restaurateur Nelson Wang, who claims to have invented it at the request of a customer in 1975 while working at this place as a cook.
Answer: Cricket Club of India
7) Name the phrase. And put funda./Where and why is this phrase used? The phrase comes from the French for “Red Lantern” and refers to the red lantern hung on the rear vehicle of a passenger railway train or the brake van(USA caboose) of a railway freight(goods) train, which signalmen(USA dispatchers) would look for in order to make sure none of the couplings had become disconnected.
Answer: The phrase is “Lantern Rouge”. In Tour De France, the rider coming last would be given a red lantern due to the tedious nature of the journey.
8) Give the last name Jonathan _____, the goaltender of the Los Angeles Kings made a rookie mistake against the NY Rangers to let in one of the softest goals ever conceded in the NHL leading to headlines like: _____, What was he thinking ? Not so _____ thinking.
Answer: Jonathan Quick.

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QMQ 11/9/16

  • 1.
    PRELIMS WITH ANSWERS Questionnumbers 1,5,10,15,20 are star-marked
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    *1) Name thetournament. Club Number of times they have won the title X 37 Y 29 Z 11 Dalhousie 4 Durham Light Infantry 3 Black Watch 2 Gordon Light Infantry 2 King’s Regiment 2 N Staffordshire Regiment 2 Royal Irish Rifles 2 Scottish Borderers 1
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  • 4.
    2)What’s the goodword?/ Id X. ■ X is a genus of rhizostome jellyfish with only one known species X reiki, found off the central eastern coast of Australia. ■ The term X is also given to a seven-string harp, and the straight radial canals of this new species are reminiscent of such strings. ■ Euglossa X is a euglossine bee species found in Brazil. ■ The term X has a colloquial meaning. It means, “fooled you!”.
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    3)What does thismap depict?/Put funda.
  • 7.
    Answer: Route ofmarathon at 1908 Olympics which became the modern standard distance for marathon- 42km,385yards.
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    4) Minimalist posterof which movie?
  • 9.
    Answer: The CuriousCase of Benjamin Button.
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    *5) What isbeing talked about here? The basic principle is that each team in a limited overs match has two resources available with which to score runs: wickets remaining and overs to play. Where overs are lost, setting an adjusted target for the team batting second is not as simple as reducing the run target proportionally to the loss in overs, because a team with ten wickets in hand and 25 overs to bat can be expected to play more aggressively than if they had ten wickets and a full 50 overs, for example, and can consequently achieve a higher run rate.
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    6) Identify Xand Y. "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" The above quotation was introduced to X by his editor, who was himself an author of repute in the same genre, in 1941. Inspired by the above, X went on to base one of his most famous short stories Y on the quote. Y was then adapted into a full-fledged novel in 1989 by X, a few years before his death.
  • 13.
    Answer: X - IsaacAsimov Y - Nightfall
  • 14.
    7) Id X. Theword was first used in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in 1933. Eliss “Puss” Achong, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, who represented West Indies in that match. Achong is said to have had Walter Robins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump. A frustrated Robins on his walk back to the pavilion said to the umpire, “fancy being done by a bloody X”. Some of the popular X bowlers are – Paul Adams, Inshan Ali, Michael Bevan, Brad Hogg, Simon Katich and Garfield Sobers.
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    8) Why? Medal ofHonor is a first-person shooter video game developed by Danger Close Games and EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts.The game was released on October 12, 2010. US military officials banned the sale of the game in military bases "out of respect for the men and women serving and their families."
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    9) Id thesong X, which propelled Y as an international star. “X" was first promoted during a TV spot for the NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" show, where the single was the part of the jingle. The single was played every Thursday in pre-game shows and began on 13 September 2013. A different promo aired every week with Y wearing jerseys of each of the two teams playing that week. Y also said that 33 different looks were designed for the commercial based on the teams.
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    *10) Shown belowis a painting titled “The Balance of Terror”. It depicts two groups of people in black and white savagely killing each other, and talks about the concept of absolute power. This painting is seen in the trailer of a 2016 movie and acts as a means of foreshadowing the events of the movie, showing the two warring “groups”. ID the movie.
  • 21.
    Answer: Batman vSuperman: Dawn of Justice
  • 22.
    11) Id X. Theword X itself if of unknown origin. One explanation is that it is a derivative of ______, a Middle French word for shepherd’s stave. The curved or “hooked” ends of the sticks used for X would indeed have resembled these staves. Another explanation is that the cork bungs that replaced wooden balls in the 18th century came from barrels containing “____” ale, also called “_____”.
  • 23.
    Answer: Hockey French wordis hoques. “hocky” ale
  • 24.
    12) Which genreof music am I talking about? Stylistic Origins Cultural Origins Typical Instruments Derivative Forms Blues Rock Late 1960s, United Kingdom and United States Electric guitar Bass Guitar Drums Vocals Grunge
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    13) What isthis Mental Floss article talking about? If you’ve ever noticed the scoring system’s similarity to a clock face, you’re not alone. “That’s the theory I think is most common—that you’re just playing your way around the clock,” Carillo said. It makes even more sense when you know that in medieval numerology, the number 60 was considered a nice, round number, the way 100 is a satisfying set of digits today. Finally, the Europeans were preoccupied with astronomy and sextant (one-sixth of a circle), which is 60 degrees, so they may have scored the game around the completion of a perfect circle."
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    14) Id X. Tokusatsuis a form of Japanese entertainment that uses considerable amount of special effects. One of the most popular genre of this form of entertainment is Kaiju which literally means strange creatures. X is one of the most famous Kaiju , also appearing first in a film in 1954 and then has gone on to become a pop culture icon..
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    *15) Whose Wikipediapage? Born Nickname Highest Ranking Career Winnings Highest Break Century Breaks Best Ranking Finish 24th July, 1985(age 31) The Prince of _____ The Golden Boy 56 (2013/2014) 56,763 pounds Snooker: 136 (2014 China Open qualifying) Billiards:876 16 Quarter Finals ( 2013 Welsh Open, 2013 Indian Open)
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  • 32.
    16) Id X& Y. Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band X for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album “Chinese Democracy”. X and Universal Music Group’s Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. arm of Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to song by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss. Singer Y and X band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss’ songs – “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangley Isolated Place” – for a song used on the band’s last album called “Riad N’ the Bedouins”, according to the lawsuit.
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    Answer: X- Guns N’Roses Y- Axl Rose
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    18) Id X. Xblades are said to be lighter, stronger, and sharper than even the best castle- forged steel, and feature distinctive rippled patterns similar to Damascus steel. Only the greatest weapon smiths can reforge swords from existing X, but the secret of creating such an alloy was apparently lost.
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    19) What sport? Modern_____ athletes use small fiberglass ______ called shells which sit on stainless steel blades that curve up to support the legs and feet that extend beyond the shell. The athlete wears a super light helmet of synthetic materials or fiberglass, and the body suit is designed to create the least amount of wind resistance. The gloves have sharp metal spikes on three fingers. Even the shoes are special and must be made according to international regulations to be legal.
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  • 40.
    20) Id X. Xis a series of computer games developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first title of the series was X, released in 1997.It was one of the first history- based real-time strategy games made, utilizing the Genie game engine. GameSpot described it as a mix of Civilization and Warcraft.
  • 41.
  • 42.
    INFINITE POUNCE ANDBOUNCE ENT ROUND • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce. • Clockwise
  • 43.
    1) Id X& Y. The acronym EGOT that expands to - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony - 4 of the biggest awards in the global entertainment industry. X, after winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is said to be a contender for PEGOT, with the prefix "P" standing for Pulitzer. Till date, there are only 2 people who can claim to have this distinguished honor. He won the Pulitzer for his Broadway hit Y, about a man who X claims to have lived the the archetypal hip-hop story.
  • 44.
    Answer: ■ X- LinManuel Miranda ■ Y- Hamilton
  • 45.
    2) Id X,Y and the film in question X and Y found a clever way to choose the right studio for their script: the story goes that on page 60 of the script, they wrote a completely out-of-nowhere sex scene between Will and Chuckie. They took it to every major studio, and nobody even mentioned the scene. When they met with Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, he said, "I only have one really big note on the script. About page 60, the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that?" - X and Y explained that they put that scene specifically in there to show them who actually read the script and who didn't. As Weinstein was the only person who brought it up, Miramax was the studio chosen to produce the film.
  • 46.
    Answer: ■ X- MattDamon ■ Y- Ben Affleck ■ Z- Good Will Hunting
  • 47.
    3) Id X& Y. X is a famous tragicomedy novel written by a very well known British author. Major themes in the novel are class, politics and social issues like that of drugs, prostitution and rape. The novel was the fastest-selling in the United Kingdom in three years and had the second best-selling opening week there since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. The book is being adapted into a BBC television drama for release in 2014.A Sikh family plays an important part in the novel, and the description of the character Sukhvinder sparked some controversy amongst followers of the Sikh faith. The author Y stated that she admires the Sikh religion and had done a vast amount of research on Sikhism. Other members of the Sikh community appreciated the fact that she portrayed Sikhs and Sikhism in a favourable light and actually draws attention to the racism that Sikhs face.
  • 48.
    Answer: X- J.K.Rowling. Y-The Casual Vacancy
  • 49.
    4) Id X. OnOctober 22, 2008, Microsoft announced that Fallout 3 would not be released in India on the Xbox 360 platform, with religious and cultural sentiments being cited as the reason. They stated, "Microsoft constantly endeavours to bring the best games to Indian consumers in sync with their international release. However, in light of cultural sensitivities in India, we have made the business decision to not bring Fallout 3 into the country.“ Although the specific reason was not revealed in public, it is possible that it is because the game contains two-headed mutated cows called X.
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  • 51.
    5) Id X,Y & Z. The music video of this hit single X by an American pop band Z in 2014 was inspired by the 2005 rom-com Y. Shot in Los Angeles, it features the lead vocalists visiting ballrooms in the city to interrupt -------- that are taking place there and performing surprise renditions of X. Despite accusations that several of the -------- in the video were staged, X went on to peak at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, also becoming in the process the band's eighth consecutive top 10 hit.
  • 52.
    Answer: X- Sugar Y-Wedding Crashers Z- Maroon 5
  • 53.
    6) Id X. Throughoutmost of his life he believed that he was only a part of one personality; what he called the four __X__s, his father, his dead brother, himself, and Jesus Christ (called __X__ in his native tongue).In addition to being a painter, he also designed shirts, hats, ashtrays, stamps, brandy bottles, coat hangers, bathing suits, crystal ware, tapestries, and playing cards.He designed the sets used in the dream sequence of Alfred Hitchock’s Spellbound in 1946. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike quality to his film, which dealt with the idea that a repressed experience can directly trigger a neurosis, and he knew that __X__’s work would help create the atmosphere he wanted in his film.
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    7) Identify Xand Y, and what tactic was used? In the Mad Max universe, Immortan Joe is a warlord who rules over the "Citadel" - a cluster of three rock towers that sit above an aquifer of relatively fresh water. The citadel was taken over by him before the events of "Fury Road". The tall rocks of the citadel were a very strong defence and he failed in his first attempt. He takes inspiration from a real-life tactic used by a decorated war general X, who is wrongly identified in the comics as a Persian but was actually a Y.
  • 56.
    Answer: X – Tanaji Y– Maratha He used a monitor lizard with a rope tied around its waist for climbing up the steep vertical rock face.
  • 57.
    8) Who arewe talking about? Initially they called themselves __ King after BB King. Then they decided, __ King was too similar to BB King and since BB King was at the top of the blues world they called themselves by their current name.
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    9) What dothe books consist of? Conceptual artist Aram Bartholl has created an art installation consisting of eight books with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Visitors to the exhibit are invited to open to books and check if their entries are present. There are around 4.7 million entries sourced from a single source. The exhibit is provocatively titled, “Forgot your ___?”.
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  • 61.
    10) What isbeing described? (1) Think of the hair as two croquet hoops. The nose curves up just a bit. The mouth is constructed like two coconut halves. The collars rests a trifle below the chin line. (2) The hair is hiding two bowling balls. Same lashes as (4) and (5) (3) Basic head shape is kinda like a tin can. Slight flare at the top of the head. Has nine points of hair. (4)Has 8 points of hair constructed in groups of 3,3,2. Necklace is off- center on her neck. (5)Almost similar to (4) except hair is stubbier and has only 3 eyelashes.
  • 62.
    Answer: The stepsthat the animators of the Simpsons follow.
  • 63.
    11) Name themovies from these 4 badly explained movie plots. (question carries 20 points) 1. Depressed, widowed father teams up with mentally challenged woman to find his disabled son. 2. Older sister ruins younger sister’s chance to be on nationally televised game show. 3. Young man finds his mentally unstable father, convinces him to murder an elderly politician. 4. A billionaire devotes his fortune to cosplay and beating up the mentally ill.
  • 64.
    Answer: 1: Finding Nemo 2:Hunger Games 3: Star Wars 4: Batman: The Dark Knight
  • 65.
    MINIMALIST POSTERS • +5 foreach and +20 if you get all of them right. • Films, TV Series, Music
  • 66.
    1) Id theFilm.
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  • 68.
    2) Id theTV Series.
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  • 70.
    3) Id themusician.
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    4) Id thefilm.
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    5) Id theTV Series.
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    6) Id thesong/band.
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    7) Id thefilm.
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  • 80.
    8) Id theTV Series.
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  • 82.
    9) Id themusician.
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  • 84.
    FOOTBALL ROUND • 6questions • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce.(you can pounce on your own questions) • Anti-Clockwise
  • 85.
    1) Put funda. Thesong “Greatest Day” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's eleventh UK number-one single. It has since been certified Gold in the United Kingdom selling over 520,000 copies. In March 2014, a re-recorded version of the song - featuring vocals from Barlow and other pop singers like Eliza Doolittle, Katy B and Spice Girls Melanie C and Emma Bunton, and former footballers such as ____ _______ and _______ ____ . It was however never officially released.
  • 86.
    Answer: It was announcedas the official song for the England football team at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The two blanked out names are Gary Lineker and Michael Owen.
  • 87.
    2) Id X.Name the autobiography. X tells the story of how his own single- mindedness and drive made up for a lack of footballing talent. While there are tales of growing up with the class of ’92, playing for England and more, all interspred with forthright views on loyalty and playing the modern game. Even non-United fans would find this a good read.
  • 88.
    Answer: Gary Neville Name ofthe autobiography is “Red”.
  • 89.
    3)Why did theirkit come into spotlight earlier this year? On social media, the images of the Palencia CF (a team which plays in the Spanish fourth division) kit were accompanied by the hashtag Nosdejamoslapiel, which literally translates to “we give our skin”. The expression means to give one’s all.
  • 90.
    Answer: Their jerseys/kitsreproduce the human anatomy, specifically bones and muscles.
  • 91.
    4)What is beingtalked about here? “If the ball has passed a player and has come from the direction of his own goal, he may not touch it till the other side have kicked it, unless there are more than three of the other side before him. No player is allowed to loiter between the ball and the adversaries’ goal.”
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  • 93.
    5) Identify theplayer./Put funda.
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  • 95.
    INFINTE BOUNCE AND POUNCESPORTS ROUND • +10 for correct answer on the bounce and direct. (no negatives) • +10/-10 on the pounce. • Clockwise
  • 96.
    1) Id X. Afterthe Athens Olympics, X took a year away from swimming, scheduling a return for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. However, he was forced due to illness. Subsequent training camps were interrupted and he announced his retirement in November 2006, citing waning motivation. From early 2011, there was a speculation about X’s return to swimming, fuelled by people claiming to have seen him training. The speculations were substantiated when X spoke at a February 2011 press conference of his return to swimming four years away, with the aim of competing in the 2012 London Olympic Games. X competed at Australia’s Olympic Trials in 2012, but failed to make the team.
  • 97.
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    2) What monikeris given to the match he is talking about? “In the strained political situation we were in, it was a body-to-body encounter with our opponents. Now I have to admit that I’m convinced even the referee was pulling for us. We were a mall country battling the huge Soviet Goliath.”
  • 99.
    Answer: Blood inthe Water match. (Water Polo match between Hungary and USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.)
  • 100.
    3) Id theSport. This is one of the very few mixed gender team sports. It is played by two teams of eight players with either eight females in each team or with four females and four males in each team. The objective of the sport is to throw a ball through a bottomless basket that is mounted on a 3.5m(11.5 ft) high pole. The sport is invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands, there are around 580 clubs and over 100,000 people playing this sport. This sport has a mixed gender league and all-women league, but no all-men league. The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan.
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    4) Who isX? During a chess tournament held in the year 1988, X met Saheli Dhar, a teenage Chess player. When playing a match, he offered her a draw but she refused the offer and defeated him to win the game, which impressed him a lot. Further, both of them were selected for the National Chess team, representing the nation at Lloyds Bank Tournament 1991 held at London. X would then go on to marry Saheli.
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    5) What isthe key difference between this sport and pole vault? Fierljeppen is a traditional sport of the Frisians and of the Dutch. The sport is similar to pole vault. The pole is between 8 and 13 m long and has a flat round plate at the bottom to prevent it from sinking into the muddy river or canal bottom.
  • 105.
    Answer: Leap isfor the distance and not the height.
  • 106.
    6) Which company? OnNovember 8th , 1993, this was incorporated as a company with its registered office in New Delhi. The same chaps who founded another entity five years earlier were the promoters of this entity. Originally, life members paid Rs.100 and ordinary members paid Rs.10 for entrance and an annual subscription of Rs.15. This place was also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-style dish Chicken Manchurian; restaurateur Nelson Wang, who claims to have invented it at the request of a customer in 1975 while working at this place as a cook.
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  • 108.
    7) Name thephrase. And put funda./Where and why is this phrase used? The phrase comes from the French for “Red Lantern” and refers to the red lantern hung on the rear vehicle of a passenger railway train or the brake van(USA caboose) of a railway freight(goods) train, which signalmen(USA dispatchers) would look for in order to make sure none of the couplings had become disconnected.
  • 109.
    Answer: The phraseis “Lantern Rouge”. In Tour De France, the rider coming last would be given a red lantern due to the tedious nature of the journey.
  • 110.
    8) Give thelast name Jonathan _____, the goaltender of the Los Angeles Kings made a rookie mistake against the NY Rangers to let in one of the softest goals ever conceded in the NHL leading to headlines like: _____, What was he thinking ? Not so _____ thinking.
  • 111.