FINALS

Round One

PUT FUNDA

Siri Didn’t Like Scarlett Johansson’s Performance In ‘Her’

Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's December 26 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph: "If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation's soul.“It was followed by another publication by his Japanese counterpart, Keiichi Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined: "China risks becoming Asia's Y".

X- Voldemort Y- Horcrux

What has been blanked out?

• One of the famous scenes from the movie X was famously shot a day after the Hollywood premiere. The scene involves Y, based on a comment made previously in the movie.

• It was shot at a location called Elat Burger.

• The popularity of the scene was such that sales of Y and related products shot through the roofs in the weeks following the release

ID X & Y

X- The Avengers Y- Shawarma

• X are small, cylindrical creatures which have 1 or 2 eyes. They are impulsive creatures with little self control, but with a wide-eyed wonder & odd innocence that endears them to viewers & make them reliable. They can be pesky when they are doing weird interactions with other people, animals, or objects. X have standard English names

Minions

•Members of EGOT club

Round 2

1. Why was this song in the news recently

Arvind Kejriwal sang this song during his swearing-in ceremony

2.The audio clip below is a song “Mein teri hoon Jaanam ” of Khoon bharimaang. Give me the source.

Chariots of Fire theme song- Vangelis

3. The clip below is of the National Anthem of Israel. Which song is “inspired” from this tune?

Mera mulk mera desh- Diljale

4.This is the opening scene of thee movie ”The Inside Man”.Something odd plays in the background after this. What ?

5.Tumne jo kaha- Lawaaris. Its source?

Barbie girl- Aqua

6. Movie : Aabroo (1943)

Which words follow ? (made epic by 1972 movie)

Round 3

• Each team picks a genre.

• 3 questions in each genre

• +5/0 for the first question

• +10/0 for the second

• +20/-10 for the third

Movies MusicMovies Music

Comics + Cartoons 1

Comics + Cartoons 2

MiscellenousMiscellaneous TV Series

Movies

1.An object entering the orbit where your eye sits has two options: it either breaks through the back of the orbit or follows the path of least resistance. If the object enters with enough force—like a bullet—it can exit the back of the orbit, as the bone there is relatively thin. If the force is lower however, the path of least resistance is directed by bony brain anatomy. A small diameter object like ‘X’ would enter the orbit, pass through the superior orbital fissure, follow grooves in the sinuses, and enter the brain underneath the frontal lobes, near (or in) the cerebellum and close to the brain stem. Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine. It has a long history of presenting scientific information on a monthly basis to the general educated public, with careful attention to the clarity of its text and the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein, have contributed articles in the past 168 years. • ‘X’ Trick Caused Complaints – It is perhaps the most astonishingly

violent scene to ever make it into a 12A movie in the U.K. As a result, it triggered most complaints to the British Board of Film Classification in a decade – over 200 complaints. Forty two percent of all the letters they received were about this X.

Pencil Trick - Joker

Connect2.

Alia bhatt is the cousin of Emraan Hasmi

1962 1964 1968 1969

1972 1980 1982 2006

Connect this to a specific person

3.

Peter O toole8 nominations, 0 wins

Music

10:19

1.CONNECT

Sandese Aate hain

• Sung by Sonu Nigam and Roop Kumar Rathod.

• Composed by Anu Malik.

• Written by Javed Akhtar, who also won Filmfare for it.

• 10mins 19 seconds is the duration of the song

2.

• Born as Saul Hudson, X was a former member of Rock Band Y during mid 80s to 90s.

• During his time in Y, he formed a side project X’s snakepit.

• During 2000s he co-founded a super group Velvet Revolver which re-established him as a mainstream performer.

• His solo albums include X(2010, Apocalyptic Love (2012) and World on Fire(2014).

• Give me X and Y.

X-Slash Y-Guns-N-Roses

3.

• Jimi Hendrix

• Janis Joplin

• Jim Morrison

• Jacob Miller

• Joe Henderson

• Brian Jones

• Amy Winehouse

• Kurt Cobain

………………Inexhaustive list

These people are often referred to as belonging to what??

CLUB 27

They died at age 27 often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse, or violent means

Comics + Cartoons 1

2.• “freeze vision" instead of heat vision• "flame breath" instead of freeze breath• "vacuum breath" instead of super breath• “Y telescopic vision" which allows Y to see a "short distance behind his head" rather than a "long distance in front of his head"• “Y microscopic vision" which makes objects "actually smaller to everyone" rather than merely "appear to be bigger to only the user"• " x-ray vision" which allows Y to "only see through lead" rather than the ability to "see through anything except lead"• "Telescopic x-ray vision" which caused Y to shoot x-rays from his eyes from "fifty miles around"

Who are being compared?

Superman V/S Bizarro

3.

X is a comic strip written by a certain Narayan Debnath for the magazine Shuktara. The hero of the story is a superman-like character, with a well-built body and enormous strength. He is so strong that he can stop a train, run through a wall breaking it to pieces, kill whales and sharks barehanded, and even bullets cannot pierce his chest. He has a great appetite and sometimes has a whale for his breakfast. ID him

Batul the great

Comics + Cartoons 2

1.

• X has a speech impediment and tends to pronounce most words as if they begin with an "R", though most characters are able to understand him perfectly. In most iterations, he keeps his sentences relatively short, usually using charades for anything longer than three or four words. X is also extremely ticklish and this is seen in many of the television shows and movies

2.

• A long standing rumour about William Moulton Marston is that he was the inventor of the polygraph test, which detects whether people are lying.. In 1921, Martson published his doctoral thesis for Harvard University. The title was “Systolic blood pressure symptoms of deception and constituent mental states.” That was Marston‟sinnovation – the idea that, by testing a subject‟ssystolic blood pressure, one would be able to determine whether the subject was lying, was the basis of the polygraph machine. William Moulton Marston is however, remembered for creating the comic book character X.

Answer :

X is Wonder Woman. Her Golden Lasso of Truth which forces anyone to speak the truth is partly inspired by the polygraph

3.• The “X” comics were a short series of comic book

adaptations produced by the now defunct Chaos Comics. The story focused primarily on “X” who is the ruler of 'Stygian' a plane known as Hell's Prison Realm, where the worst and most deadly and evil of souls are remanded after Death. He is bent upon acquiring the Three Books of Death that contained a prophecy by a being called the Death Scribe that could give him power to call down armageddon and recreate the universe in their own image.

• This comics features many famous real life characters related to “X” and also features many real world relationships and rivalries and particularly a very famous incident that occurred last year. ID “X”.

UNDERTAKER

Miscellaneous

1.• As an infant, Thomas Jr. had suffered head

injuries in a car accident, and had been confined to Willowood Asylum for life. Upon his escape, he was manipulated into becoming the assassin known as the "Boomerang Killer" until X learned of his existence and exposed the mastermind behind the killings. Later, Deadman took possession of Thomas' body to resume his career as an acrobat. X tracked down the ghost and demanded that he relinquish his hold on the demented man. When Deadman temporarily left the body, Thomas, Jr. saved his brother's life by taking a bullet for him. He died a hero.

• Who was X

Batman

2.

Madonna promoting her latest album “Rebel Heart” on Instagram

3.

X, a veteran director who after graduating from Film and Television Institute of India(FTII), Pune in 1971 joined there as its lecturer.

His 1st venture as a director was Dhauligiri Shanti Stupa and he made several critically acclaimed documentaries after that.

His most famous work is however Y, which was the second best National Film in 1984, Indian Panoramaand also adjudged the Best Third World Film at International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg and many other international accolades.

X and Y Please.

X- Late Nirad MohapatraY-Maya Miriga

TV Series

1.

CONNECT2.

Kevin Spacey

3. • Actor Samuel L. Jackson has admitted in interviews that he is a huge fan of

X. At one point, both X and “Marvel’s The Avengers” were filming on separate lots in the same Albuquerque, New Mexico studio. Samuel Jackson wanted to have a cameo appearance in which he walked on to the set of Los Pollos Hermanos, dressed as Nick Fury, completely unannounced as if he were a customer buying chicken from the restaurant. Unfortunately the plans fell through as the shooting schedule didn’t allow enough time for him to break away from the set of the Avengers, as the Avengers shot during the night, while X shot during the day.

• ID X

This guy was inspiration behind the protagonist of X