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QMQ 4/9/16
The document outlines a quiz event held on September 4, 2016, featuring multiple rounds with questions on word origins, photo explanations, and cultural references, including the origins of phrases and terms. It includes specific examples of questions and answers, such as the phrase 'paying through the nose' and the word 'gerrymandering.' Additionally, it covers rounds involving trivia about media and popular culture, with points awarded based on correct answers.
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QMQ 4/9/16
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- 2. Round 1 :Word/Phrase Origins 12 questions Name the word/phrase Infinite bounce, pounce +10/-10 on the pounce +10 on the bounce
- 3. #1 X? Today,applying an X suggests a practical approach to problem solving, but it was actually a violent way to settle marital disputes. A judge, Sir Francis Buller, ruled that "a man was entitled to beat his wife with a stick provided it was no thicker than his _____", the Glasgow Herald stated in 1886. However, in the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, X is additionally defined as a method by which brewers once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They dipped a _____ in the brew.
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- 5. #2 What’s thegood word? The Federal prisoners of war are confined within a stockade 15 feet high, of roughly hewn pine logs, about 8 inches in diameter, inserted 5 feet into the ground, enclosing, including the recent extension, an area of 540 by 260 yards. A railing around the inside of the stockade, and about 20 feet from it, constitutes the X, beyond which no prisoner is allowed to go, day or night, under penalty of being shot. Another variation, this one using the hyphenated version of the word was used by printers – not to refer to the time to go to press, but to describe how the press should be configured. It was common to talk about the type “not coming outside of the X on the press.”
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- 7. #3 Two surprisinglyplausible origins for a phrase, provided by Urban Dictionary. What phrase? In olden times when food was scarce, people would leave the bones, fat and undesireable portions behind after eating their meal. These second-rate items would be used for soup the next day, so as such, the poor-quality leftovers would X. In the days of the industrial revolution and early mass- production, assembly workers would occasionally find a defective or out-of-tolerance part which was not suitable for use. This part would be sent back to the smelting room to be melted down and re-cast a second time. Since the smelting was done in a giant ___, these defective parts had X.
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- 9. #4 Phrase? Thisphrase comes from the ninth-century Ireland. When the Danes conquered the Irish, they imposed an exorbitant X Tax on the island's inhabitants. They took a census (by counting Xs) and levied oppressive sums on their victims, forcing them to pay by threatening to have their Xs actually slit. Thus, paying the tax was actually ______ _______ ___ ____.
- 10. Paying through thenose.
- 11. #5 X? Thievesused to X to trip them. Once the victim was on the ground, the thieves would have ample opportunity to rob them. Another theory has to do with executions by suspension hanging at Tyburn in England. It’s believed that people were occasionally hired to hang on to the victim’s ____ to give them a quicker death. Suspension hanging typically results in a much slower death than long drop hanging, and the extra weight on the victim’s X could potentially make the rope mercifully work a little faster.
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- 13. #6 Phrase? Thereis a story about it which associates it with the efficiency of Cornish beam engines. It is said that such engines in the Newcomen era of the eighteenth century could pump 38,000 gallons of water out of a tin mine while burning only 24 bushels of coal. The idea is that the rate of talking is so great that when other people say merely a _____ words, the speaker gets in ________. It’s also sometimes used to describe rapid heartbeat in times of danger, and to refer to other fast-moving or fast-changing things (like dogs’ tails).
- 14. Nineteen to thedozen.
- 15. #7 Phrase? Usage? The phrase comes from the expression X meaning that the best cure for what ails you is to have some more of it. In ancient times it was literally used to say that if a ___ were to bite you, putting the ___’s ____ into the wound would heal it. "Like cures like". This remedy is not recommended because it doesn’t really work very well but it still works about as well as most other remedies these days.
- 16. Hair of thedog.
- 17. #8 Named afterwhom? A species of fungus native to Malaysia was described as new to science in 2011. It produces X-like rubbery orange fruit bodies that have a fruity or musky odour. Like an X, they will resume their original shape if the water is squeezed out.
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- 19. #9 Y isa derivative of X. X and Y? X Year or Shmita, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle observed in contemporary Judaism. During Shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity—including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting—is forbidden by Torah and Jewish law. Biblical X is a weekly day of rest or time of worship. It is observed differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion in several other faiths. Though many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual tradition of "Remember the X day, to keep it holy". Y, from Hebrew, has now come to mean a rest from work, or a break, often lasting from two months to a year.
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- 21. #10 What’s thegood word? In the process of setting electoral districts, X is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The word, used for the first time in 1812, was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under Governor Elbridge _____. In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill that redistricted Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a __________.
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- 23. #11 What’s thegood word? An X is a performance in Indian classical music, especially the Hindustani classical music, that features a duet of two solo musicians. The word literally means "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental. What defines X is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. While any Indian music performance may feature two musicians, a performance can only be deemed an X if neither is clearly the soloist and nor clearly the accompanist. In X, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.
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- 25. #12 X Y? The English word Y was derived, via Spanish then French, from an Arabic word. X is from Florida Xs, where the fruit is naturalized. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use of X Y to 1905, in an issue of Country Gentleman, which described the fruit as "the finest on the market. It is aromatic, juicy, and highly superior to the _____.” Identify this fruit whose dessert lost out to KitKat for Android 4.4.
- 26. X: Key; Y:Lime Key Lime Pie
- 27. Round 2 :Explain the photograph Simple, put as much funda as you can 5 pictures Write down your answers on your sheet Differential Scoring; 5*(no. of teams getting it wrong) No negatives.
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- 30. #2 Reason forthe turbulence?
- 31. Sweden switching toright-hand drive.
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- 34. #4 What hasbeen blanked out?
- 36. #5 ID thedevice.
- 38. Round 3 :Star Wars Album Covers 6 album covers reimagined as Star Wars characters Name the artist Write down your answers on your sheet +5 for each correct answer, +10 for all correct No negatives.
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- 51. Round 4 :Dries 12 questions Infinite bounce, pounce +10/-10 on the pounce +10 on the bounce
- 52. #1 Name themovie. X is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film based on the 1953 novel of the same name. The film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for reading. What is so special about the opening credits of the movie?
- 53. Fahrenheit 451. Themovie's opening credits are spoken rather than displayed in type, which is a representation of what life would be like in an illiterate culture.
- 54. #2 Scene fromThe Simpsons paying tribute to which painting? By whom?
- 55. Nighthawks – EdwardHopper
- 56. #3 X, Y,Z? The book X was published in the same year that Y fled the Himalayan kingdom. It is not a political book: instead it tells the story of ______'s friendship with a Chinese boy, whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. When ______ goes to rescue him, he encounters Tibetan monks and the mythical yeti - the Abominable Snowman. At a ceremony in Brussels in June 2006, Y presented a Tibetan butter lamp to the Z Foundation. The award was accepted by Z's widow, Fanny Rodwell. Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke. "We never thought that this story of friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later," she said.
- 57. X: Tintin inTibet; Y: The Dalai Lama Z: Herge
- 58. #4 What amI talking about? The original ships used on the packaging were the Grand Turk and the Friendship. Other ships used on the packaging include the John Wesley, Salem, Birmingham, Maria Teresa, Propontis, Recovery, Sooloo, Star of the West, Constitution, Java, United States, and Hamilton.
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- 60. #6 This isa trailer for an upcoming AI horror/thriller movie named Morgan. What makes it special?
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- 62. #7 X? Xis a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the X who takes away the sin of the world. This term is used generally in Roman Catholic masses. It is thought to have originated because the ____ is most often sacrificed. Giving rise to the term “sacrificial ____.” Nowadays, ironically, the phrase X is more popular as the name of a metal band.
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- 64. #8 Name thecharacter. In 2010 it was discovered that male mouse urine contains a specific component that invokes inherent sexual attraction to the scent and which also stimulates female memory and conditions sexual attraction to the airborne odours of the scent owner. The component was named after an archetypal cold, aloof romantic hero, the protagonist of an 1813 novel.
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- 66. #9 What isgoing on here?
- 67. Filming of VanDamme’s Volvo Ad.
- 68. #10 Song byWeird Al called Bob. Funda?
- 69. Palindromes. I, man, amregal - a German am I Never odd or even If I had a hi-fi Madam, I'm Adam Too hot to hoot No lemons, no melon Too bad I hid a boot Lisa Bonet ate no basil Warsaw was raw Was it a car or a cat I saw? Rise to vote, sir Do geese see god? "Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod Rats live on no evil star Won't lovers revolt now? Race fast, safe car Pa's a sap Ma is as selfless as I am May a moody baby doom a yam? Ah, Satan sees Natasha No devil lived on Lonely Tylenol Not a banana baton No "x" in "Nixon" O, stone, be not so O Geronimo, no minor ego "Naomi," I moan "A Toyota's a Toyota" A dog, a panic in a pagoda Oh no! Don Ho! Nurse, I spy gypsies - run! Senile felines Now I see bees I won UFO tofu We panic in a pew Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog! Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
- 70. #11 X? AnX is a judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. The term may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations. The term comes from the notion of justice proceeding "by leaps“. In India, Khap panchayats who take decisions hastily without abiding by the penal code are generally termed as X The phrase is popular in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand and is still in common use.
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- 72. #12 X, Y,Z? X were working on the song Y and they had recorded a work in progress version of it. This unfinished version leaked out to radio stations and naturally this pissed them off since they were control freaks and they traced it back to Z. On April 13, 2000, X filed a lawsuit against Z. X alleged that Z was guilty of copyright infringement and racketeering. This led to the shutting down of Z which is widely considered to be the father of piracy websites.
- 73. X: Metallica; Y:I disappear Z: Napster
- 74. Round 4 :Dries 12 questions Infinite bounce, pounce +10/-10 on the pounce +10 on the bounce
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- 77. #2 Name thecompany. The company X was officially formed in 2012 by the merger of the Izhmash ___ factory and Izhvesk Mechanical Unit. However the name X had been a leading ‘brand’ in its particular field for almost half a century.. The popular products of this brand usually carry a number attached to their name signifying their type. They recently underwent a change in their logo, here’s their old one.
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- 79. #3 X? Whatdate? X Day was coined by Nate Bonilla-Warford, an optometrist from Tampa, Florida on March 12, 2010. The idea came to him while "thinking about new ways to promote his business". In 2010 McDonald's launched a spring pilot program that took advantage of X Day. X users who checked into McDonald's restaurants on X Day were given the chance to win gift cards in 5 and 10 dollar increments. Mashable reported that there was a "33% increase in foot traffic" to McDonald's venues, as apparent in the increase in X check-ins.
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- 81. #4 X? TheX effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with incorrect words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary. This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" often being changed to X by older spell checkers with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation". X is one of the many cities that claim to be the “heart” of the Silicon Valley.
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- 83. #5 X? __________.comwas a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. It was named after the X concept and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site and externally. X is also a song by The Script and the title of a 1993 comedy- crime film starring Donald Sutherland and Will Smith. X also lends its name to a charity led by actor, musician and philanthropist, Kevin Bacon.
- 84. Six degrees ofseparation.
- 85. #6 X? TheX ISP Speed Index lists the average prime time bitrate for content streamed to members during a particular month. For ‘Prime Time’, we calculate the average bitrate of content in megabits per second (Mbps) streamed by members per ISP. We measure the speed via all available end user devices. For a small number of devices, we cannot calculate the exact bitrates and streaming via cellular networks is exempted from our measurements. The speed indicated in the X ISP Speed Index is not a measure of the maximum throughput or the maximum capacity of an ISP.
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- 88. Electrocuted by Edisonto prove that Tesla’s AC was dangerous.
- 89. #8 X, Y,Z? Y is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", and his greatest feat was killing the X, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. X has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling. In the movie Z a pharmaceutical company creates a virus called X in order to generate a market demand for the antidote it also created called Y.
- 90. X: Chimera; Y:Bellerophon Z: Mission Impossible II
- 91. #9 X? Wheelsof Zeus was a company founded in 2002 by X, which made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabled objects. The licensable technology consisted of 3 components, a Smart Tag, a Tag Detector and an Internet-based service that could provide the locations of said tags. Like many of X’s ideas, it was a bit ahead of its time. It’s just that the nascent wireless technology wasn't quite reliable enough for his ideas.
- 92. Wheels of Zeus= WoZ X: Steve Wozniak
- 93. #10 X andY? X Window from a glass Step Clock Radio iPod Y Window from a glass Step Cannot afford iPod Mini
- 94. #11 X: Borat;Y: Nursultan Tuliagby (his neighbour)
- 95. #12 Give thetwo word term X. One of the ironies of being a startup is that when you are small no one can put you out of business but you. Paradoxically, as your revenues and market share increase the risk of competitors damaging your company increases. Often the cause is the inability to grow the startup past the worldview of its founders Manuel Molano of the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, a think-tank, calls this a X syndrome in which firms prefer to stay small than to grow, mostly because of tax and regulation. “It’s easier to fly under the radar when you are microscopic,” he says.
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- 97. #13 X? TheX technique is a fictional aversion therapy administered by a "Dr. Brodsky" at the X medical facility. It involved forcing a patient to watch, through the use of specula to hold the eyes open, violent images for long periods, while under the effect of a nausea-, paralysis-, and fear-inducing drug. The aim of the therapy was to condition the patient to experience severe nausea when experiencing or even thinking about violence, thus creating an aversion to violent behaviour. In the film, he is conditioned only against Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. “X" is the Italian equivalent of the German name "Ludwig"; it is possible the name was selected for this reason. A image of this technique from the film adaptation is now a popular stock photo for internet memes.
- 98. Ludovico Technique fromA Clockwork Orange.