5. Minimalist posters of movies/TV shows
18 posters/ 5 points per correct answer
15 points bonus if all are correct
10 points if 15 are correct
5 points if 12 are correct
47. Vishal Bharadwaj on the Censor Board certificate for his
2009 film Kaminey.
“Very silly cuts and changes were asked - like a dialogue
where an actor asks another the place that he hails from. The
other actor replies that he is from ________, UP. Though
the dialogue was not political, we were asked to change as
________ is a controversial constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
In the end, we had to change it to Barabanki. Such type of
changes are very irritating for filmmakers.”
Where? Why was it controversial at that time?
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48.
49. Pilibhit
Varun Gandhi's hate speech in March 2009 landed
him in trouble.
50. Lyrics of Looking for a New Love by Jody Watley released in
1987. FITB.
_____ __ _____, ____
You gave me love, you did me wrong
Didn’t know what to do
But baby, I’m strong, gonna get over you
A new boy I’m gonna choose , you’ll see
My love was true, still you threw it all away
Now other guys will have me, they’ll appreciate my love
Tell me, how does it feel
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51.
52. Hasta la vista, baby
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
catch phrase in
Terminator 2: Judgment
Day
53. He could not recall ever before having __________ at an
opponent. "Always Sandstrom is in my crease, bothering me,
hitting at me when I have the ____," he said. "When I made
the save on Robitaille, Sandstrom hit at me again. So I
__________ . I wanted to show him I'd be tough. That I
was in control."
Who is 'he' and what did 'he' do?
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56. Widely considered the greatest referee never to officiate in a World Cup
final, ____ _____ was denied the chance in '74 due to safety concerns
after the Munich Massacre and in '78 and '82 due to politics. He has
presided over some of the greatest WC matches of all time- Brazil vs
England in '70, Italy vs Brazil in '82 and Argentina vs Italy in '78.
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Brian Glanville wrote of the latter: "There was nothing more impressive in
this World Cup than the way he stood between his linesmen at half-time
in the Argentina - Italy game, scorning the banshee whistling of the
incensed crowd."
His autobiography 'The Master of the
Whistle' came out in 2010, a title once
bestowed on him by Ken Aston.
Which illustrious referee?
59. Ray Marks, the current owner of the Hotel Gleneagles, said
tourists still flocked to the hotel because of the X
connection.
He admitted that he often put on a "funny walk" for their
benefit. "I have been known to walk across the grass kicking
my legs high in the air like Y used to do. I also shout: 'Go on,
go on, clear off!'
"However, our staff are under strict instructions that they are
not to serve guests in the X way."
X and Y?
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60.
61. Y - Basil Fawlty
X - Fawlty Towers
Gleneagles hotel was the
Inspiration for Fawlty Towers.
62. Contrary to popular perception, X didn’t originate in Y, but in the
Black Forest region of Germany in the 17th or 18th century. This
itself might have been influenced by earlier designs from the
neighbouring regions. From the 19th century, X began to be
produced in Y and is now considered a souvenir for tourists
visiting Y.
In the 15th and the 16th centuries, Y was involved in the
Burgundian Wars against the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the
Bold, War of the League of Cambrai against France, transalpine
campaign against the Duchy of Milan, Swabian War against the
House of Habsburg of the Holy Roman Empire, in addition to
various civil wars, religious wars and peasant uprisings.
X and Y? 6
63.
64.
65. X – Cuckoo Clock, Y – Switzerland
Harry Lime’s (Orson Welles) line in The Third Man.
You know what the fella said – in Italy, for thirty years
under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder
and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In
Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five
hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did
that produce? The cuckoo clock.
66. Pancharatna Kriti is the set of five songs set to the ragas
Naata, Goula, Arabhi, Varaali and Sri composed by Tyagaraja
in Carnatic classical music. Four of them are Jagadananda
Karaka, Dudukugala, Sadhinchane and Kanakana Ruchira.
Which is the fifth?
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69. 19 of them were built in _______ ______, Iowa during the late
19th Century, of which only 6 remain today. All 6 are listed on the
US National Register of Historic Places. They were _______ to
protect the roadway, because it was cheaper to replace the boards
of the roof and walls, then the heavy beams of the actual ______.
Their names, year of construction and length are
1. Hogback ______ (1884) 97 feet.
2. Cutler-Donahoe ______ (1870), 79 feet.
3. Cedar ______ (1883), 76 feet.
4. Roseman ______ (1883), 107 feet.
5. Imes ______ (1870), 81 feet.
6. Holliwell ______ (1880), 122 feet.
What?
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74. Narendra Tamhane was a Mumbai wicketkeeper batsman
who played in 21 Tests for India from 1955 to 1960. He
famously dropped Lance Gibbs, the only batsman Subhash
Gupte missed in an innings in the Kanpur Test against West
Indies in 1958/9, thus leaving him with the figure of 9/102.
He is most remembered for a remark he is supposed to have
made in the late 1980s to reassure his colleagues. What?
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75.
76. As the selector of Indian cricket team, he said
“Gentlemen, Tendulkar never fails” when the question
of the selection of a 16 year old Sachin Tendulkar came
up.
77. This 1939 song by Ary Barroso is one of the most popular
songs from its country. An English version of the song was
written by Bob Russell because of its huge popularity.
Several artists have covers of the song including Frank
Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Vengaboys.
Which song? What did it famously inspire in 1985?
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78.
79.
80. Aquarela do Brasil
Inspired the title
and the theme of
the 1985 Terry
Gilliam film Brasil
81. The logo of the European tour was updated in 2009, from a
generic golf logo to one featuring the silhouette of X, a
legendary golfer who won 6 British Opens between 1896 and
1914, a record which still stands. However, within 2 years, there
was a demand from among leading European professionals that
the logo should be changed to feature Y .
This recommendation is still under consideration by the European
Open.
Id X and Y and explain why the change was proposed.
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84. Stanley Kubrick called him, “without question, the best
director we have in America”, while The New York Times
described him “one of the most honored and influential
directors in Broadway and Hollywood history”. Along with
Lee Strasbourg, he was a proponent of method acting and
was noted for coaxing sparkling and inspired performances
from actors in his films. His friendly testimony before HUAC
identifying eight (former) Communists in the film industry in
1952 made him controversial and cost him several friends.
His magnum opus, which showed that there could be
nobility in a man who named names, is widely considered to
be his answer to his detractors.
Director and film?
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87. Which event was given the name we know it by now, in
1780, after Charles Bunbury lost on the toss of a coin?
Which term, used across sports to denote a particular
kind of contest was born on this day?
Give me either.
88.
89. The Epsom Derby or The Derby
First occurrence of ‘Derby’ in a sporting context
The rights to name the race was decided by tossing a
coin between Bunburry and the Earl of Derby.
92. The Vancouver riots of 2011 after the Canucks lost to
Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
93. Forever _______ is a 40,000-pound, 26 feet tall sculpture by
Seward Johnson. From July 2011 to May 2012, it was located
at Pioneer Court, Michigan Avenue, Chicago before being
moved to Palm Springs, California. It was very controversial
and was panned by critics and locals alike. It also figured
among a list of the top 10 pieces of bad public art in US by
VirtualTourist.com. The relevance of the statue to Chicago
has been questioned and the photo-op behaviour it inspired
has been criticised.
What does the sculpture depict?
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94.
95.
96. Forever Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
on the subway
grating for The
Seven Year Itch
97. They are given in Biblical passages in two different books -
Exodus 20:1-17 & Deuteronomy 5:6-21, though both use
different text and are in slightly different order. They are also
mentioned partially in the Gospels of Matthew 19:16–19,
Mark 10:17-19 and Luke 18:18-20 and the Epistle to the
Romans 13:8-10. Jews, Orthodox Christians, and most
Protestants more closely follow the version of Exodus, while
Catholics and Lutherans more closely follow the version of
Deuteronomy.
They were famously used in 1956 and 1989 (among others)
and are believed to have used the versions from Exodus and
Deuteronomy respectively. What were the uses?
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102. Identify unknowns A - H
5 points per correct answer
10 points bonus if all 8 are correct
103. A was the only journalist in the dressing room when B
produced his famous quote to C about the controversial D
series. Hence when the story was leaked to the press,
everyone naturally assumed A was the source even though it
was E who actually got it out. E never owned up, according to
A, and this was one of the long list of reasons why he didn't
respect E as a person.
E accused A and ace bowler F of leading an Irish Catholic
mutiny in the team against his protestant captaincy. When E
was famously dismissed for a duck in his final innings, A and
F were doubled up with laughter in the dressing room.
A also said that, after having written books on both E and G,
he considered G - in whose memory Australians celebrate G
day on November 2 - a greater batsman than E. However
other cricket writers shared A's view as well - Eminent
English cricket writer H wrote of G’s natural elegance in
comparison to E’s mechanistic dominance: an eagle
contrasted to an aeroplane.
104.
105. A. Jack Fingleton
B. Bill Woodfull
C. Plum Warner
D. Bodyline
E. Bradman
F. Bill O’Reilly
G. Victor Trumper
H. Neville Cardus
106.
107.
108. 16 questions anti clockwise
10 points per correct answer
Modified infinite bounce
Infinite Pounce
+15 / -10 on pounce
109. While at least 5 actors reprise their characters in multiple
movies of this series, there are two actors who play different
characters in different movies of the series.
In the first case, the second role is explained away as the
identical twin sister of the original character. In fact, the lead
character on seeing her for the first time, mistakes her for
her sister, with whom he is acquainted in the previous
film(s).
However, no such explanation is provided in the second case
- the actor plays himself in one movie and a completely
different character in a subsequent movie.
Identify both the actors.
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112. Harold Russell was a World War II veteran, who played the
role of Homer Parrish, a US serviceman who lost both his
hands in the war, in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.
Like the character, he himself had lost both hands in the war.
He was the first non-professional actor to win an Academy
Award for acting. At the 19th Academy Awards, he was
awarded an Honorary Academy Award “for bringing hope
and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance”.
What unique achievement does he hold?
2
113.
114. The Academy Board of
Governors wanted to
salute him, but assumed
he had little chance for a
competitive win. So, the
Honorary Academy
Award.
He also won the Best
Supporting Actor Oscar,
thus making him the only
actor to have received
two Academy Awards for
the same performance.
115. The time limit was three minutes per player, per game. My faceless
opponent began with some highly irregular, if not totally absurd
opening moves - shifting all his pawns forward one square. These
were moves that that no Grandmaster would ever play. I
immediately felt that I was the victim of an elaborate practical
joke. But then I became aware of something else.
From this deliberately unpromising position emerged moves of
extraordinary power. In this first game I was totally crushed. I
took a little more care in the second game, but met with the same
result. His openings became even more cocky - 1....f6 followed by
2...Kf7 and 3...Ke6, exposing his own king to immediate assault -
was one of his bizarre and unprecedented gambits. It was as if he
was deliberately trying to handicap himself. However, I was beaten
again.
WHO, talking about WHAT?
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116.
117. Nigel Short, about playing Bobby
Fischer on the Internet .
In the 90s, there was a rumour
that Fischer was playing GMs
anonymously on the internet.
Short, the best speed chess
player in the world around ‘95
was approached by an
anonymous player to play a series
of games on the net. They played
over 50 games over which Short
was beaten so badly that he was
convinced he could have been
playing noone else but Fischer.
118. The music video of Express Yourself by Madonna was the
most expensive music video at the time (1989). The video
ends with the epigraph “Without the Heart, there can be no
understanding between the hand and the mind”.
What inspired the set design of the video? Name the
director of the video as well.
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122. On X's death, it was said
that his funeral would
probably be called the Y
funeral. This was in
reference to a very famous
event in which X played a
very significant part but his
performance was
completely overshadowed
by Y in whose name this
1953 event is still known.
Identify X and Y
125. The unpublished memoirs of Friz Freleng mention that It
Happened One Night was one of his favourite films. Three
things in the film - the personality of a minor character,
Oscar Shapely (who continuously calls Clark Gable’s
character “Doc”), an imaginary character named “____
Dooley” mentioned once to frighten Shapely, and most of
all, some of Clark Gable’s actions in this scene are believed
to have inspired X.
X?
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126.
127.
128. Bugs Bunny
Clark Gable eats
carrots while
talking quickly
with his mouth
full.
129. ____________ ____ ___________ is a popular online flash
game, launched in 2007 and is into its fourth edition now.
The game is a single player football simulation where you
start off as an amateur player practicing in your backyard
and lets you play your way to the World Cup Final. The
name ____________ _____ ______________ is borrowed
from street football. In street football, this refers to the 'bare
essentials' nature of the street game which involves just a ball
and a fence or wall used as a goal, with items such as
clothing often used to mark the posts.
Fill in the blanks.
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132. Lenin Rajendran's upcoming film, Edavapathi, has been in the
news for a variety of reasons. Jagathy Sreekumar was
travelling to the sets of the film when the tragic car accident
took place. Subsequently, another actor had to be cast in his
role.
The film also marks the come back of X to Malayalam films
after nearly 2 decades. Whose?
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135. The 1500 m race at the 1976 Montreal Olympics was billed
by the media as the ‘Greatest Long Distance race of all time’
because of rivals X and Y coming together at the peak of
their form.
X was Tanzanian and the then World record holder in 1500
metres.
Y was a Newzealander and the first man to run a mile
under 3:50 minutes.
All the buildup proved futile after the X-Y race didn’t
happen at all, due to other reasons
.
X, Y, Why?
136.
137. X – Filbert Bayi
Y – John Walker
Tanzania withdrew
from the Olympics to
protest the All blacks
touring South Africa.
138. “It’s become quite evident that my time as an ___ _____
_______ has expired. Don’t worry, I haven’t found Jesus.
One thing is for certain, I’m proud to say I have no regrets, I
genuinely feel I accomplished everything I could as a
performer. I was able to work with the industry’s most
professional performers and companies, and I’ll always
cherish the friends and relationships I was able to build. It
was simply the perfect time for me to move on... while I was
on top (pun indeed, intended). Life sometimes takes us in a
direction we never could have imagined.”
Identify this person, announcing his/her retirement via
Facebook on 8 April 2011.
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141. Suriname is currently 133rd in FIFA World rankings.
However their ranking would doubtless have been higher, if
not for a particular law in Suriname regarding the eligibility
to play for the national football team.
Put funda.
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142.
143. You cannot play for Suriname if you hold any other
passport along with the Surinamese passport.
Nearly half of the Dutch golden generation of late 90’s
moved from Suriname to Netherlands because of this
reason– Rijkaard, Seedorf, Davids, Kluivert, Reiziger and so
on..
Points only if the key words DUAL NATIONALITY or
PASSPORT is mentioned.
144. Which is the only olympics in which animals were killed in the
course of an event and what was the event?
The event in a modified form is still a part of the olympics.
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145.
146. 1900 Paris Olympics.
Pigeon Shooting. In those days, live pigeons were used
instead of the ‘clay pigeons’ used now.
147. Excerpt from an uncyclopedia article.
___________ ________ is a shallow (arguably VERY shallow)
estuary located near Los Angeles, California, to which
approximately twenty percent of Southern California's water
drains, and in which eighty percent of Southern California's
clichéd, formulaic action sequences occur, all of which feature
gratuitous levels of special effects. _________ _______ and the
land masses surrounding and within it are famed for their car and
boat chases, high-budget explosions, shoot-outs, hostage
situations, criminal and terrorist activities, and daily crisis
situations putting the city, nation or entire world in perilous
jeopardy.
Who or What is the object of sarcasm here?
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150. The composer X had the tune ready and started humming it.
Y, who heard the tune, could not make any sense of it and
asked me to write dummy lyrics for it. I wrote whatever came
to my mind in X's car. X and Y liked what they read. The
result is the song.
Someone explaining how he wrote his first song. Which
song?
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154. __________ was a batsman who polarised opinion like few others.
Excerpts of interviews from "________: The True Story"
Martin Gray: "He just treated the match like batting practice. His attitude
was just unbelievable. He couldn't care less if we won or lost... We had a
partnership of over 100. He got 96 and I got six. In every over, off the
fifth or sixth ball he would take a single and keep the strike. To all the
other balls he hit either four or nothing. He was such an arrogant, selfish
man that I changed my opinion of him completely. He sickened me
totally."
Don Wilson, a long-time team-mate, said: "Even though I don't like him, I
would never deny that he was a great player. The trouble was that if he
hadn't scored a hundred, he really couldn't give a damn. There were times
when we were like a yacht without a rudder because he was thinking about
his own game. There was a terrible atmosphere in the dressing-room.“
ID the batsman. 15
162. Pick your topic
Team with the lowest points at the end of Round IV
gets to pick first and so on.
You can challenge any other team for your topic.
One team can be challenged only once.
+10 for all right answers.
-5 for all wrong answers.
You can choose not to attempt to avoid the negative.
Questions will NOT be open to the other 4 teams at
any point.
163. Borrowing Tunes Superstitions Nicknames
Stadiums TV Shows Board Games
Last Slide
172. This theme was
originally used in 1958
comedy Fortunella by
Eduardo De Filippo. How
did it come into news in
1972?
173.
174. The Godfather Original score nomination in 1972 was
rejected because it reused the theme here.
175.
176. Croke park, Dublin was established in 1884 and is owned
and operated exclusively by the GAA.A capacity of 82,300
makes it the fourth largest stadium in Europe and the largest
not primarily used for Association Football (Soccer, for
philistines). Name the two sports which are primarily played
here.
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179. Only 2 International cricket stadiums in India are named after
sportsmen. Ironically, both of these were hockey stadiums
before being converted to cricket grounds and thus are
named after hockey players.
One was an olympic gold medallist in '32 and '36 and the other
in '48 and '52.
Give me the stadiums/location.
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182. This stadium in the US has a
nickname X gained because
of it’s shape.
The home team here got their
name Y from the nickname
of the stadium.
However, the naming is
geographically incorrect as
Y are unlikely to be found
anywhere near an X.
188. The Detroit Redwings fans toss an octopus into the ice before
games to bring luck.
189. Whose very recent quote?
The only occasion he removed his pads after getting
out, X lost. "There was only once in the tournament
when I took off my pads after I got out, and that was
against the __________. We could not manage to get 13
from 12 balls in that end. "I was not shell shocked
because it wasn't about me getting out X is not about
me, it's about we. I was just one of the players going
out there to contribute for X. I had faith in all the
players."
192. Why is Richard Gasquet a difficult customer for
ballboys everywhere?
193.
194. He always insists on playing with the ball he last won a
point with.
195.
196. When you're dead, you are said to be ________
_____________ . The phrase refers to the fact that
you'll turn to manure and _____ the _________ from
below the earth. Which American comedy-drama
television series which starred Ned, a pie-maker with
the ability to bring dead things back to life with his
touch am I talking about?
Even though the show was critically acclaimed for its
unique visual style, quirky characters, and fast-paced
dialogue, it had a premature end within two seasons.
199. The reactions after the casting of a comic book movie came out in early 2011.
The actor :
"Purist comic-book fans are one thing; out-and-out racism is another. Of course, the more
I speak on this topic, the more I fuel it. But, look, if people have a problem with me
playing the character, just don’t go see the movie, you know?"
The director :
"X is a fantastic actor - we were lucky to get him. He provides all the characteristics we
need from Y, the man who says, "Thou shalt not pass". When X says that, you know
you're gonna have a problem. He's smart, intelligent, handsome and an absolute joy to
work with. If you have a chance to have a great actor in the part, everything else is
irrelevant."
X is more widely known to the general audience for his portrayal of a drug gang leader in a
widely acclaimed HBO TV Series .
Actor and either character, please?
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200.
201. X – Idris Elba
Y- Heimdall from Thor/
Stringer Bell from The Wire
202. In the TV Series Futurama, who is shown as
the President of the Earth?
His living head is preserved in a glass jar
and is mounted on Bender's previously
pawned body. At first _________'s head is
presented in a positive light, an effort by the
writers to point out laudable elements of
the real ______________'s political career.
However, it is soon revealed that
_________’s head has evil intentions,
planning to "sell children's organs to zoos
for meat" and "go into people's houses at
night and wreck up the place!"
Series creator Matt Groening has expressed
pleasure at being able to continue poking
fun at _______ decades after he was in
power.
206. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was famed on the tour for
her tenaciousness and refusal to concede a point.
Commentator Bud Collins described her as "unceasing
in determined pursuit of tennis balls, none seeming
too distant to be retrieved in some manner and
returned again and again to demoralize opponents"
and alliteratively nicknamed her the _______
_________ from her home city and her tenacious
nature on court.
209. Boxing nicknames have a way of recurring in history.
Roberto Duran was feared as the "Hands of Stone". But
when same nickname was applied to boxer Luis Resto
in 1980s, it was to mock him. Explain the change in
context.
210.
211. He used hardening substance on his hand and caused
life threatening injuries to Billy Collins Jr. and was
banned lifetime from boxing.
212. The explanation for a football club's nickname :
Half a century ago, in every game, during halftime, a
woman dressed in blue and white would go before the
crowd and toss ___________ to them. Hence they
came to be called ___________
216. X is a board game developed by Y. The slogan reads, "The
physics is theoretical, but the fun is real." It is played on a
board with spaces configured to resemble the Bohr model
of the atom. In the game, you roll the die to move onto a
space, letting you draw a card, either benefiting you,
hurting you, or hurting other players. Possible harmful
outcomes include a nuclear meltdown, an industrial
accident, and the loss of a retina by staring into a helium-
argon laser. Beneficial effects include the renewal of a
Department of Defense research grant, while the only
known buildable objects are a "Soviet-style cyclotron" and
the "Large Hadron Collider“
X, Y?
219. It is the greatest game in the history of chess. The sheer
number of ideas, the complexity, and the contribution it has
made to chess make it the most important game ever
played.
X told Reuters after he beat Y .
X also said, "I spent more time analyzing this than any
other game.“
In 2000, X published a book about the match: X Against Y:
The story of the World’s Greatest ________ ________. The
202-page book holds the record for the longest analysis
devoted to a single chess game.
222. X is an alternative rock band from St. Louis, Missouri.
The band consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Andrew
Volpe, lead guitarist/back up vocalist Tim Ferrell,
moog/synth and back up vocalist Tim Convy, and
drummer/back up vocalist Matt Palermo.
The three adopted the name X after a character in the
film Labyrinth and not where you would expect from.