The Simple Quiz: prelims

THE SIMPLE QUIZ
@PrasenjeetSaha

RULES:
o 21 questions.
o +1 on each correct answer.
o Top 6 teams to go to finals.
o *Ed questions in case of a tie.
o Quizmaster’s verdict is supreme.

*1. ID this little girl.
This is X, one of the daughters of
the neighbours of the writer Y.
Y became close friends with the
family and their children,
particularly X.

X: Alice Liddell
Y: Lewis Carroll

2. Notorious guy.
X was born into a poor family of cattle grazers and grew up admiring the
poacher Sevia Gounder and the notorious outlaw Malayur Mammattiyan. He
was said to have poached his first elephant at age 14 and committed his first
murder at 17. At 18 he joined a gang of poachers and expanded their
operations to include other criminal activities.
Most of X’s victims were police, forest officials, and locals whom he
suspected of being informers. He was wanted for killing approximately 184
people, about half of whom were police officers, including senior police and
forest officials.
ID X.

4. X and Y?
The final match took place on 26 May, with India
facing the home team of the Netherlands. The
Indian team's better players Feroze Khan, Ali
Shaukat and Kher Singh were on the sick list and
X himself was ill. However, even with a skeletal
side, India managed to defeat the hosts 3-0 (with
Singh scoring 2), and the Indian team won Y.
Keeper Richard Allen created a unique record of
not conceding a single goal. X was the top scorer
of the tournament by a large margin, scoring 14
goals in 5 matches.
THE TEAM:
•Richard Allen
•X
•Maurice Gateley
•William Goodsir-Cullen
•Leslie Hammond
•Feroze Khan
•George Marthins
•Rex Norris
•Broome Pinniger
•Michael Rocque
•Frederic Seaman
•Ali Shaukat
•Jaipal Singh
•Santosh Manglani
•Kher Singh Gill

X: Dhyan Chand
Y: Olympics gold (first ever)

*5. Anything is possible.
Was filmed in a single uninterrupted take.
The actor recites a monologue as he transitions through various scenes, all without
pausing his monologue or breaking eye-contact with the camera for more than a
moment.
Minimal computer-generated imagery (CGI) was used, consisting of overlaying a
separately shot artificial hand during the segment where diamonds flow from the
actor's palm and the product rises through the pile of diamonds with a separately
filmed shot of the hand.
The remaining effects were practical and achieved on-set, including a crane lifting
the bathroom set from above, a crew member dropping a pre-formed shirt over the
actor's head from above, and a cart that carried him from the boat set onto the back
of a horse.
What am I talking about?

Old Spice ad ‘Smell like a Man,
Man’

6. What am I talking about?
There are 7 types of a certain object in “X”: I, J, L, O, S, T & Z.
•All of these are capable of single and double clears.
•I, J, and L are able to clear triples.
•Only the I has the capacity to clear four lines simultaneously, and this is
referred to as a “X".
•In most recent implementations, certain situations allow T, S, and Z to 'snap'
into tight spots and clear triples.

*7. What is X?
As a child, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Shah of Lugash:
the X, the largest diamond in the world. This huge gem has an unusual flaw:
looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a
Y; thus its name “X”.
When Dala is a young woman, rebels seize power in Lugash and then
demand possession of the jewel, but the exiled princess refuses to hand it
over.
What is X?

8. What are these and X?
1. Atala
2. Vitala
3. Sutala
4. Rasaataala
5. Talatala
6. Mahaatala
7. X

X: Paatala
The 7 under-
world realms
in Hindu
Mythology

9. Where have you seen him?
Alfred E. Neuman, distinguished by jug ears, a missing front tooth, and one
eye lower than the other has graced the cover of almost all issues of X.
His face is rarely seen in profile; he has virtually always been shown in full
frontal view, directly from behind, or in silhouette.
Over the decades, Neuman has frequently been referenced in outside media,
and his face has often appeared in political cartoons as a shorthand for
unquestioning stupidity.

*10. What happens when I mix?
?

11. The inspiration behind.
What being is described in the artist’s own poem?
“I was walking along the road with two friends
the sun was setting
suddenly the sky turned blood red
I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence
there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city
my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety
and I sensed an infinite X passing through nature.”

12. A household name.
What came into being, when in 1980 Dr. Karsanbhai Patel a lab technician at
the Geology and Mining Department of the Gujarat Government
manufactured a new phosphate free synthetic detergent powder, and started
selling it locally?
He would bicycle through the neighbourhoods selling handmade packets of
his product door to door which soon became an instant success owing to its
word-of-mouth publicity among satisfied housewives and its famous jingles.

Star Wars
opening credits
“A long time
ago in a galaxy
far away…”

14. What is this electronic device?
•Voice Input Child Identicant
•Superhuman strength and speed.
•Runs on atomic power.
•An access panel at the back.
•An electric socket in the right side.
•A RS-232 serial port in the left side.

‘Vicky’ from ‘Small Wonder’

16. Which Hindi movie?
"The Last Leaf" is a short story by O. Henry
published in 1907 in his collection The
Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. Set in
Greenwich Village, it depicts characters and
themes typical of O. Henry's works.
Its is listed as the inspiration behind the
Bollywood movie X.
ID X.

*17. Word.
The word X or its popular short-form “Y” is actually a corruption of the
Scandinavian svagga, meaning "to rock unsteadily or lurch" and entered the
English language in the 13th or 14th century, with its earliest print sighting
dating to 1303. Over time its meaning evolved into that of "hanging loosely or
heavily," and by 1794 picked up the additional meanings of "booty or plunder"
and "a hanging wreath or garland.”
Its first written use is in Shakespeare’s 1596 play A Midsummer Night’s
Dream! The quote of the original usage is as follows from character, Puck:
“What hempen homespuns have we ‘X’ing here?”
Gimme Y!

18. A modern belief.
The X belief system is essentially a modernized form of Taoism purged of all
of its metaphysical and medical doctrines.
X advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the flow", "being cool
headed", and "taking it easy" in the face of life's difficulties, believing that this
is the only way to live in harmony with our inner nature and the challenges of
interacting with other people.
It also aims to assuage feelings of inadequacy that arise in societies which
place a heavy emphasis on achievement and personal fortune.
(clue in next pic )

Dudeism, inspired by "The Dude" of
The Great Lebowski

*21. What was introduced?
The X was first introduced to popular culture as part of a promotion by New
York radio station WMCA beginning in 1962. Listeners who answered their
phone "WMCA Good Guys!" were rewarded with a "WMCA good guys"
sweatshirt that incorporated a X into its design. Thousands of these
sweatshirts were given away and X caught on.

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