This document discusses a traveller from antiquity named Megasthenes and his book Indica. At the beginning of Indica, Megasthenes refers to older Indians' knowledge of the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in India, a popular story among Greeks during the Alexandrian period. He comments on Indian religions, mentioning devotees of Heracles and Dionysus but not Buddhists, supporting the theory that Buddhism was not widely known before Ashoka's reign.

1. History
Etymology
Literature
Mythology
By Chandra, Iffat and Sahay

3. At the beginning of his X, he refers to the older Indians who
know about the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in
India, which was a story very popular amongst the Greeks
during the Alexandrian period. Particularly important are his
comments on the religions of the Indians. He mentions the
devotees of Heracles and Dionysus but he does not mention
Buddhists, something that gives support to the theory that the
latter religion was not widely known before the reign of
Ashoka.
Name the traveller and his book (X)
1. Travel galore

4. 2. Connect

5. This phrase was coined by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of
Windsor. The meaning of this phrase is ‘a lot’ and on face
value it seems to refer to another British author famous for his
twisty and complex writing. However, the name of this author
is a euphemism for the word devil. ID the phrase.
3. ID the phrase

6. 4. Rhyme it!

7. Built in the 16th century, it is one of the major arteries of India
and Pakistan. Rudyard Kipling describes it thus: "such a river of
life as nowhere else exists in the world“
What are we talking about?
5. The River of Life

8. Often, in Latin, lists of objects would look like this:
One bed,
also three chairs,
also one table,
also four lamps ...
This led to the Latin word for "also" becoming the origin of
another English word. Which?
6. Atin-lay

9. • The word X is surprisingly unrelated to words like minimum,
minute, minuscule, minor (which come from Latin minimus
small), but derives instead from the Latin minium - red
lead. 'red lead' evolved to 'paint red', which further evolved
to 'illustrate a manuscript', then to 'manuscript illustration
or small picture', to finally just 'small'.
• Id X.
7. Atin-lay

10. X goes back to Medieval Latin _____, a diminutive of scurius,
which goes back to the Greek skia (shade) + oura (tail). Xs use
their tails to shade their bodies, and you can often see them
holding them up as they stand. Id X.
8. Atin-lay

11. • 7. X and Y are two races of mythological beings in Norse mythology
that are conventionally at war with each other, with both X and Y
being races of gods or god-like beings. The vast majority of
sympathetic Norse gods belong to the X race, however, several notable
gods, such as the god Freyr and his sister Freyja are from the Y race
instead. Eventually the conflict between the two races subsides. Z and
W are similar races from Vedic and Puranic mythology, with linguistic
ties to X and Y respectively that have led to people hypothesizing that
they are both descended from similar ideas. However, in the Hindu
context, Z are unequivocally demonic beings, while W form the race of
gods. This opposite classification has also been a subject of much
debate. However, the linguistic relationship between Z, X and “ahura”
from the name Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism suggests that
historically Z may not have always been regarded negatively. A race
similar to W also exists in Zoroastrian mythology.
ID X, Y, Z and W.
9. Conflict of the Gods

12. • A is a prominent Rig-Vedic god that later diminished in popularity with the rise of the
Hindu Trimurti. His origin story forms the central myth of the Rig Veda, detailing his
conflict with X, who was a giant serpent/dragon considered as a personification of
drought, thereby liberating the rivers of world that X had kept captive. A was prominently
a drinker of soma, a vedic drug, and was known for his amorous escapades.
•
Similar to A, but much more prominent is B, a greek god also known for his amorous
escapades, especially the kind that did not involve consent. B supposedly raped or slept
with women in various interesting methods, including raping Leda as a swan, pretending
to Alcmene’s husband and raping Danaë as a shower of gold. Like A, B also had a rival who
was draconic - Y was the last son of Gaea and Tartarus, and together with Echidna was
the father of all monsters. Y attempted to kill B at the behest of Gaea, but with the aid of
the other Olympians, B managed to defeat Y and imprison him under Mount Etna.
•
In another parallel, C is a Germanic/Norse god who wields a hammer and is known for his
brusque and honest personality, which made him a favorite among the Vikings. Unlike the
A-X battle, C’s battle with the serpentine was at the end of his life, not the beginning: at
Ragnarok C is destined to die from poison after killing Z, who is a serpent so large that he
can surround the whole Earth and grasp his own tail, earning him the title Midgard
Serpent.
•
ID X, Y and Z. Also, what major common feature between A, B and C have I left out?
10. Gods

14. At the beginning of his X, he refers to the older Indians who
know about the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in
India, which was a story very popular amongst the Greeks
during the Alexandrian period. Particularly important are his
comments on the religions of the Indians. He mentions the
devotees of Heracles and Dionysus but he does not mention
Buddhists, something that gives support to the theory that the
latter religion was not widely known before the reign of
Ashoka.
Name the traveller and his book (X)
1. Travel galore

15. • Megasthenes
• Indica

16. 2. Connect

17. • All romantically linked to Anne Hathaway

18. This phrase was coined by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of
Windsor. The meaning of this phrase is ‘a lot’ and on face
value it seems to refer to another British author famous for his
twisty and complex writing. However, the name of this author
is a euphemism for the word devil. ID the phrase.
3. ID the phrase

19. Like the Dickens

20. 4. Rhyme it!

21. • Daisy-Head Mayzie – Dr. Seuss

22. Built in the 16th century, it is one of the major arteries of India
and Pakistan. Rudyard Kipling describes it thus: "such a river of
life as nowhere else exists in the world“
What are we talking about?
5. The River of Life

23. • The Grand Trunk Road
• "Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers
and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all the world going and
coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn
like a log after a flood. And truly the Grand Trunk Road is a
wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without
crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred miles - such a
river of life as nowhere else exists in the world.“ – Kipling’s
Kim. Based along the GT Road

24. Often, in Latin, lists of objects would look like this:
One bed,
also three chairs,
also one table,
also four lamps ...
This led to the Latin word for "also" becoming the origin of
another English word. Which?
6. Atin-lay

25. • Item

26. • The word X is surprisingly unrelated to words like minimum,
minute, minuscule, minor (which come from Latin minimus
small), but derives instead from the Latin minium - red
lead. 'red lead' evolved to 'paint red', which further evolved
to 'illustrate a manuscript', then to 'manuscript illustration
or small picture', to finally just 'small'.
• Id X.
7. Atin-lay

27. • Miniature

28. X goes back to Medieval Latin _____, a diminutive of scurius,
which goes back to the Greek skia (shade) + oura (tail). Xs use
their tails to shade their bodies, and you can often see them
holding them up as they stand. Id X.
8. Atin-lay

29. • Squirrel

30. • 7. X and Y are two races of mythological beings in Norse mythology
that are conventionally at war with each other, with both X and Y
being races of gods or god-like beings. The vast majority of
sympathetic Norse gods belong to the X race, however, several notable
gods, such as the god Freyr and his sister Freyja are from the Y race
instead. Eventually the conflict between the two races subsides. Z and
W are similar races from Vedic and Puranic mythology, with linguistic
ties to X and Y respectively that have led to people hypothesizing that
they are both descended from similar ideas. However, in the Hindu
context, Z are unequivocally demonic beings, while W form the race of
gods. This opposite classification has also been a subject of much
debate. However, the linguistic relationship between Z, X and “ahura”
from the name Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism suggests that
historically Z may not have always been regarded negatively. A race
similar to W also exists in Zoroastrian mythology.
ID X, Y, Z and W.
9. Conflict of the Gods

31. • X – Aesir
• Y – Vanir
• Z – Asura
• W - Veda

32. • A is a prominent Rig-Vedic god that later diminished in popularity with the rise of the
Hindu Trimurti. His origin story forms the central myth of the Rig Veda, detailing his
conflict with X, who was a giant serpent/dragon considered as a personification of
drought, thereby liberating the rivers of world that X had kept captive. A was prominently
a drinker of soma, a vedic drug, and was known for his amorous escapades.
•
Similar to A, but much more prominent is B, a greek god also known for his amorous
escapades, especially the kind that did not involve consent. B supposedly raped or slept
with women in various interesting methods, including raping Leda as a swan, pretending
to Alcmene’s husband and raping Danaë as a shower of gold. Like A, B also had a rival who
was draconic - Y was the last son of Gaea and Tartarus, and together with Echidna was
the father of all monsters. Y attempted to kill B at the behest of Gaea, but with the aid of
the other Olympians, B managed to defeat Y and imprison him under Mount Etna.
•
In another parallel, C is a Germanic/Norse god who wields a hammer and is known for his
brusque and honest personality, which made him a favorite among the Vikings. Unlike the
A-X battle, C’s battle with the serpentine was at the end of his life, not the beginning: at
Ragnarok C is destined to die from poison after killing Z, who is a serpent so large that he
can surround the whole Earth and grasp his own tail, earning him the title Midgard
Serpent.
•
ID X, Y and Z. Also, what major common feature between A, B and C have I left out?
9. Gods

33. • They are all Thunder Gods
• X – Vrrtra
• Y – Typhon
• Z – Jormungandr

34. +20 per direct, +30 on the pounce
Connect:
1. +50/-25
2. +40/-20
3. +30/-15
4. +20/-5
5. 10/0

35. • This play features the very popular character, John Falstaff.
This is Falstaff’s third appearance. In a country setting,
Falstaff, short of funds, concocts a scheme to dupe two of
the local wives. He writes a letter to each — but when they
compare notes, they discover that he wrote the exact same
letter to both of them. Rather than simply turn him down or
expose him, they decide to play along and get him into
trouble. Just when Falstaff thinks he's getting a wife into
the bedroom, the husband, who has been alerted, comes
home and Falstaff has to sneak out right under his nose —
first in a laundry basket (to be tossed into the river), then
dressed as an old aunt and chased out of the house. As a
finale, he is persuaded to wear a costume for a festival, and
is poked, prodded, and scorched.
1. The Return of Falstaff

37. • Merry Wives of Windsor

38. • Set of seven paintings
• Identify or describe the concept of each painting
• Identify what the entire set is representing
• Identify the Shakespearean play
2. Meta Connect

39. Number 1

40. Number 2

41. Number 3

42. Number 4

43. Number 5

44. Number 6

45. Number 7

47. • The Infant
• The Schoolboy
• The Lover
• The Soldier
• The Justice
• The Pantaloon
• The Old Age
Connect?

48. • The seven ages of man is a series of paintings by Robert
Smirke, derived from a monologue from William
Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy
Jaques in Act II Scene VII.
• All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
The Seven Ages of Man

49. • This work has the unique distinction of being published by
its author with an alternative title. Legend has it that the
author could not decide the title of his work almost till day
it was supposed to be released so he named it after the day
(or maybe night) of release- January 6th. Name the literary
work.
3. Untitled Title

51. • Twelfth Night – The twelfth night of Christmas Celebrations

52. • Soundtrack of a movie adaptation of a literary work X.
Identify X. The song is aptly named Bad Reputation for one
of the leading characters deliberately maintains a bad
reputation.
4. Rock Music?

54. • Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You

55. This phrase alludes to a Biblical character who is thus talked
about
I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in
thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom
is found in thee.
One of the leading characters in the play praises him in the
following manner :
“O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!”
The phrase was first used in Shakespeare’s play X. ID the
phrase and the play.
5. Make them on the way

57. • A Daniel come to judgment
• Merchant of Venice
• Daniel 5:14 (King James Version)

58. • Merry Wives of Windsor
• All’s Well that Ends Well
• Twelfth Night
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Merchant of Venice
Connect?

59. • Shakespeare transgender plays.

60. +20 per direct, +30 on the pounce
Connect:
1. +50/-25
2. +40/-20
3. +30/-15
4. +20/-5
5. 10/0

61. • Pop
• Phien
• Emmy
• Marianne
• Jetty
• Loutje
• Connie
• Jackie
• ---X--
• ID X and give funda
Oh Dear!

63. • Diary entries in the original diary. Diary of A Young Girl –
Anne Frank
• X- Kitty

64. A memorable and much-quoted line in X is: "manuscripts don't
burn" . In the book X, Y is a writer who is plagued by both his
own mental problems and the harsh criticism of most of the
Soviet writers in the Moscow of the 1930s. He burns his
treasured manuscript in an effort to cleanse his own mind from
the troubles the work has brought him. Another character later
gives the manuscript back to him saying, "Didn't you know that
manuscripts don't burn?" There is an autobiographical element
reflected in Y's character here, as the author in fact burned an
early copy of X for much the same reasons.
Censor Woes

66. • The Master and The Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

67. • vermin
• bug
• cockroach
• beetle
• dung beetle
• ID funda and literary work
The Literal Bug

69. • Possible translations of Ungeziefer in Kafka’s Metamorphosis
• Ungeziefer - unclean animal not suitable for sacrifice
• Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen
erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren
Ungeziefer verwandelt

70. • X is a grand strategy wargame popular because of the
balance between economics, politics, and land, sea, air and
strategic warfare, where players take the roles of major
countries. The novel Y (which borrows its name from X) has
a character who specializes in this game. ID X and Y.
All War, No Peace

72. • The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño
• Rise and Decline of the Third Reich

73. • The Knight's Tale
• The Miller's Tale
• The Reeve's Tale
• The Cook's Tale
• The Wife of Bath's Tale,
• The Friar's Tale,
• The Summoner's Tale
• The Man of Law's Tale
• Identify superset
Everybody has a tale

75. • Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

76. • Diary of A Young Girl
• The Master and the Margarita
• Metamorphosis
• The Third Reich
• The Canterbury Tales
Connect?

78. • Famous works published posthumously

79. 1 team : +50
2 teams : +30
3 teams : +25
4 teams : +20
5 teams : +10
6 teams : 0

80. • During 1849, a fad had taken over Boston and New York.
Deliberate misspellings began to be used to phrases, such as
"know go" for "no go;" "'nuff ced" for "enough said", and
"know yuse" for "no use". One form of one such misspelling
for a phrase meaning 'everything is fine' is the only survivor
of this slang fad into english. What is this survivor?
1

82. • OK (Oll Korrect)

83. During the time of the Crusades the members of a certain
secret Muslim sect engaged people to terrorise their Christian
enemies by performing murders as a religious duty. These acts
were carried out under the influence of hashish, and this led to
the a particular word for these people who were under the
influence of that hashish, and carried out these murders. What
is the common English word that this evolved into?
2

85. • Assassin from Hashashin

86. • The etymology of the name for this marine creature
apparently describes its actual appearance accurately. The
roots of the name go back to the latin words for 'pig' and
'fish', literally making this a 'fish looking like a pig', or a 'fish
with a pig like snout'. What marine creature am I talking
about?
3

88. • Porpoise (Pork+Pisces)

89. • The verb X derives from skei, meaning 'to cut, split, divide,
separate'. skei, in itself, and its forms in Dutch as schijten,
and German as scheissen are common etymologies for
several words, depending on what is being separated from
what. For example, the word science also derives from this,
because science helped to 'divide and split' truth from
falsehood.
• X was dervied from 'skei' which meant to 'separate'
something from the body.
• Id X.
4

91. • Shit

92. • What word derived from the italian war phrase, which
translates to 'to arms!'?
4

94. • Alarm (to arms!)

95. • The word X derives from old french, meaning "cover fire",
and was intended to indicate the medieval practice of
ringing a bell at fixed time in the evening as an order to
close the fireplaces and prepare for sleep, so that
unintended fires do not occur. Id X
5

97. • curfew - (covrir "to cover" + feu "fire")

98. +20 per direct, +30 on the pounce
Connect:
1. +50/-25
2. +40/-20
3. +30/-15
4. +20/-5
5. 10/0

99. Identify the book in which this nursery rhyme figures
Ten Little Soldier Boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self -------------------------
Nine Little Soldier Boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself ------------------------------
Eight Little Soldier Boys traveling in Devon;
One said he’d stay there -----------------------------
Seven Little Soldier Boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves ----------------------
Six Little Soldier Boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one -----------------------------
The word soldier is replace by Indian/nigger in certain editions
It’s all in the rhyme

101. • And then there were none – Agatha Christie

102. • The play began life as a short radio play broadcast on 30
May 1947 called Three Blind Mice.
• In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, this play is Hamlet's answer to
Claudius's inquiry about the name of the play whose
prologue and first scene the court has just observed. The
play is actually The Murder of Gonzago, but Hamlet answers
metaphorically, since "the play's the thing" in which he
intends to "catch the conscience of the king.“
• ID the play
Shakespeare again?

104. • The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie

105. • The audio is the soundtrack of an adaptation of a famous
work of detective fiction
• ID the book
Stereotypes

107. • Murder on the Orient Express

108. Complete the following list. Justice will be done to who answer
well and retribution will be served to those who do not.
• The Man in the Brown Suit
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Curtain
• The Unexpected Guest
• ___X___
Also give the connect
Frivolous isn’t really frivolous

110. • Witness for the Prosecution
• No earthly punishment to the criminal

111. In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist,
came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva
Mountstephen, also a spiritualist who specialised in seances and
crystal-gazing. One morning after Miss Mountstephen has returned
to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy
revealed that she’d was poisoned with prussic, a cyanide-based
poison. The murder was never solved and her doctor was also
found dead a few months later, of strychnine poisoning. Miss
Mounstephen was later arrested for allegedly tampering with her
friend’s bottle of sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it,
though the court found her not guilty.Apparently, Rudyard Kipling
had written to Arthur Conan Doyle, urging him to write a story
about a “murder by suggestion”. Though Conan Doyle never
visited to investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie and the
detective story X was the result. Name X.
Inspiration

113. • The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie

114. • And then there were none
• The Mousetrap
• Witness for the Prosecution
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• Murder on the Orient Express
Connect?

116. • Famous examples of whodunits
• A whodunit or whodunnit (for "Who [has] done it?" or "Who
did it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective
story in which the audience is given the opportunity to
engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist
throughout the investigation of a crime. The reader or
viewer is provided with the clues from which the identity of
the perpetrator may be deduced before the story provides
the revelation itself at its climax.

120. • People who invaded Russia in the Winter and failed.
• EXCEPT for Batu Khan

121. This term evolved from the Arabic 'al zahr', which means the
dice. In Western Europe the term came to be associated with a
number of games using dice, which were learned during the
Crusades whilst in the Holy Land. The term eventually took on
the connotation of danger because, from very early on, games
using dice were associated with the risky business of gambling
and con artists using corrupted dice. ID the therm

123. • Hazard

124. • This author (X) and his protagonists love to talk about their
relatives – especially aunts and uncles. This author attended
various boarding schools and, according to one biographer,
between the ages of three and 15 years, saw his parents for
barely six months in total. His works are autobiographical in
the sense that they rarely focus on the protagonists parent –
rather they talk extensively about a generous uncle who will
remember the protagonist when he “pops off” or a spinster
aunt whom even the Queen of England dare not cross. X spent
quite a few of his school holidays with one aunt or another,
and the numerous aunts provided him with ample
characteristics for some of his most vivid literary creations,
including the formidable aunt Y and the good and deserving
aunt Y who figure in a series of novels and short stories.
• ID X, Y and Z
Family favourites

126. • X – Wodehouse
• Y – Agatha
• Z - Dahlia

127. • A man named John Taylor once said the following:
• The story of the life of the Mexican divinity, X, closely
resembles that of the Savior; so closely, indeed, that we can
come to no other conclusion than that X and Christ are the
same being. But the history of the former has been handed
down to us through an impure Lamanitish source, which has
sadly disfigured and perverted the original incidents and
teachings of the Savior's life and ministry." (Mediation and
Atonement, p. 194.)
• Taylor could make a comment like that because his particular
Church has unique beliefs about Christianity, including the
belief that the some Native Americans were descended from
Lost Tribes of Israel.
• Id X, and the Church that Taylor belonged to.

129. • X – quetzalcoatl
• Church – Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints

130. ID the missing person and give the funda:
• Máni, Personification of the Moon
• Týr, God of Victory and Glory
• Wotan/Odin, All-father and King
• Thor, God of Thunder
• Frigg/Freya, Goddess of Love and Fertility
• ??????????
• Sól, Personification of the Sun

132. • Days of the week
• Saturn is the exception
• The rest are Germanic/Norse

133. Connect
Janus Pomona Quirinus

135. • All Roman Gods with no Greek counterpart

136. • It exists like a secret code, within and between the words,
sharp and teasing and seductive, for the enjoyment of the gay
society that had to remain so carefully concealed in the
margins. Cecily, for example, the name of Jack Worthing's
ward, was a contemporary term for a young male prostitute.
Jack and Algy fight over buttered muffins, apparently blissfully
unaware of all the double entendres for buttocks and
lubrication or the fact that food is such a very obvious symbolic
substitute for sex. And the silver cigarette case they fight over
in Act 1 was a gift that the author was known to have given
several of his lovers. One imagines that in the darkness of the
audience seats, there were secret smiles, whispers, the thrill
of all things secret and forbidden, the love that dared not
speak its name.
• What am I talking about
Impish Euphemisms

138. • Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

139. • The first half of the this Ancient Sumerian tale discusses X, king of Uruk,
and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the
people of Uruk. After an initial fight, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close
friends. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain and defeat
Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which
the goddess of lust and love, Ishtar had sent to punish Gilgamesh for
spurning her advances. As a punishment for these actions, the gods
sentence Enkidu to death.
•
In the second half of the epic, X's distress at Enkidu's death causes him to
undertake a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal
life. He fails in his quest, and eventually learns that "Life, which you look
for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be
his share, and life withheld in their own hands". However, because of his
great building projects, his account of Siduri's advice, and what the
immortal man Utnapishtim, a Noah-like character (possibly even the
inspiration for Noah) who told him about the coming Great Flood, X's fame
survived his death.
•
ID the epic.

141. • Epic of Gilgamesh

142. • Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in
Elephant Land is a young adult novel written by Stratemeyer
Syndicate writers using the pen name Victor Appleton. It is
Volume 10 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by
Grosset & Dunlap.
•
Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the X in
1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he
named after his childhood hero Tom Swift. The X used
gunpowder as its propellant, which led the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms to classify it as a firearm in 1976, but
current models make no such use of gunpowder, and are
primarily electric, a the case of Tom Swift's Electric rifle.
• Id X

144. • TASER -- "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle"

145. • While the idea of the Round Table of King Arthur was that all Knights
sit equally upon it there is a seat on the Table called Siege Perilous or
the Perilous Seat, which lies vacant until the most virtuous knight of
all claims it. Supposedly, the use of the seat by anyone but its
intended occupant is fatal, and the one for whom it is intended shall
discover the Holy Grail.
•
In various versions of the story, X is the most pious and virtuous knight
in Arthur’s order. Perhaps ironically, X himself is a bastard, born to
Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic when Elaine dupes Lancelot into
believing that she is Guinevere, the Queen and Lancelot’s mistress.
•
X eventually “obtains” the Holy Grail and as a consequence is given the
right to decide the time of his own death, which he chooses to be after
he meets Joseph of Arimathea on the way back to King Arthur’s Court.
•
ID X.

147. • Galahad

148. • According to Islamic Eschatology, the end of times will be
preceded by the rule of the Mahdi (“guided one”) before the
Day of Judgement. There is no explicit mention of the Mahdi in
the Qur’an, and information about him/her comes from the
Hadith. Several individuals have claimed to be the Mahdi.
•
According to Islamic tradition, the reign of the Mahdi will
coincide with the return of a much more prominent Qur'anic
figure and the two of them shall together battle Masih ad-
Dajjal, or the false messiah.
•
The Qur’anic figure mentioned above had apparently never
died after his appearance in the Qur’anic narrative, but had
instead been taken by God up to heaven until the end times.
•
Identify him.

150. • Isa al Masih (Jesus)

151. • The X Y Z was a multi-ethnic political entity in Central Europe
during the early Middle Ages that was sarcastically described by
Voltaire as follows:
• "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself
the X Y Z was neither X, nor Y, nor an Z."
•
The Y part of the name from a supposed transfer of rule from
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, who derived his own authority
by being crowned by the then Pope, Leo III. As a consequence, the
history of the X Y Z at the time was deeply intertwined with the
Papacy in Rome, with the Pope being the official authority
crowning the leader of the X Y Z (often called Kaisers) while the
leaders of the X Y Z would routinely involve themselves in the
politics of Rome and Italy, trying to support various Antipopes
who opposed the elected Popes of that time.
•
One of the greatest leaders of the X Y Z was Frederick I who was
elected to this position, and crowned on 18th June, 1155.
Frederick was known for his red beard, and was often called
Frederick Barbarossa as a consequence.
•
ID X, Y and Z, and give the funda for Voltaire's quote.

153. • Holy Roman Empire

154. • Salah al-Din Yusuf was a great Muslim leader who was born into a
prominent Kurdish family: his father worked for the Turkish governor in
northern Syria. Yusuf played a big role in the Third Crusades (which were
launched when Yusuf seized Jerusalem), and became famous in the
Western circles as a supposedly chivalrous knight who fought fairly,
despite being a "barbaric" Muslim. When the Christian crusaders took
Jerusalem in 1099, they committed mass murder and slaughter of Muslim
communities. Yet, when Yusuf retook it in 1187, he allowed the Christian
inhabitants to leave the city safely.
•
Yusuf is known for his rivalry with Richard I of England, one of the
leaders of the Third Crusades. Despite their rivalry however, the two
seemed to share a mutual respect - when Richard was wounded in battle
against Yusuf, the latter offered the services of his personal doctor to
Richard. Once, when Richard had caught a fever and was suffering en
route to attacking Jerusalem, he appealed to Yusuf for fresh water and
fresh fruit, a request that Yusuf granted by sending fresh fruit and frozen
snow.
•
Eventually, Yusuf and Richard struck up a truce that would leave
Jerusalem in Muslim control, but would allow Western pilgrims to visit
without facing trouble, ending the Third Crusades.
•
What is Yusuf better known as?

156. • Saladin

157. • Harald "X" Gormsson was a Viking; he was King of Denmark and
Norway around 1000 AD. There are several theories as to how
he got the nickname, X, the conventional one being that he
had a conspicuously bad tooth. Another explanation is that his
nickname vaguely translates to "dark chieftain" where
thane/thegn is translated as chieftain.
•
Harald raised massive runestones in the town of Jelling in
Denmark in memory of his parents, as a celebration of his
conquest of Denmark and Norway.
•
In modern times, we remember Harald's nickname for some
other purpose - the name was appropriated in the hope that it
would unite particular disparate groups akin to how Harald
united Norway and Denmark.

159. • Bluetooth

160. • The Great X Nation is the name given to a Native American
political entity that was essentially a confederacy of seven
tribes, known as the Seven Fires Council (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ). X
is derived from the Odawan word Nadoüessioüak, which has
connotations of "snake" and is often translated as "enemy".
Perhaps ironically then, the seven tribes themselves are
divided into three broad categories A, B and C, depending on
the dialect of the language they speak and all three of the
words N, D and L mean "ally" or "friend" in all three languages.
D is now also the basis for the names of two states in the US.
•
The X are also known for their idiosyncratic literalistic naming
pattern, wherein their Chieftains have names such as Red
Cloud, Crazy Horse, Chief War Eagle and Sitting Bull.
•
ID X or N/D/L.

162. • X – Sioux
• N/D/L – N/D/Lakota

163. • The ______ is formed of steatite and measures 3.56 cm by 3.53 cm,
with a thickness of 0.76 cm. It has a human figure at the center seated
on a platform and facing forward. The legs of the figure are bent at
the knees with the heels touching and the toes pointing downwards.
The arms extend outwards and rest lightly on the knees, with the
thumbs facing away from the body. Eight small and three large bangles
cover the arms. The chest is covered with what appear to be
necklaces, and a double band wraps around the waist. The figure
wears a tall and elaborate headdress with central fan-shaped structure
flanked by two large striated horns. The human figure is surrounded by
four wild animals: an elephant and a tiger to its one side, and a water
buffalo and a rhinoceros on the other. Under the dais are two deer or
ibexes looking backwards, so that their horns almost meet the center.
At the top of the ________ are seven pictographs, with the last
apparently displaced downwards for lack of horizontal space.
•
Wikipedia description for what?

165. • Pashupati seal

166. • Divi filius is a Latin phrase used to describe a historical
character, that means "Son of God". The full phrase is divi
luli filius, where luli refers to the "father" of the historical
figure, who, once his divinity was declared by the Roman
Senate was referred to as Divius Iullius.
• Who was the historical figure?

168. • Augustus Caesar ( Son of Julius Caesar)

169. • The X hypothesis, formulated by the German publisher and
historian, Heribert Illig, about the events that occurred
between 614 CE and 911 CE. He claims that it is a result of
the actions of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, the
Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII and Pope Sylvester II,
and cites the presence of Romanesque architecture, in 10th
Century Western Europe and an alleged thirteen day
discrepancy between the Gregorian/Julian calendar with
the underlying solar year.
•
ID X or give the funda.

171. • Phantom time