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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBRules21 questions for shagun.4 star marked questions 3, 8, 13, and 18.6 teams move on to the finals.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ1.For years, super-fans of X have put all his work under a microscope and come to the theory that his films exist within the same world.While talking to Australia'sthe Project, the Oscar winner confirmed the theory, butalso addedthat there are some movies of his that are movies that characters inothermovies of his would watch - essentially, fictions inside a fiction.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ2.Orissa Xis ageographically tagged product ofOdisha.Also known as "Bandha of Orissa", it is made through a process of tie-dying the warp and weft threads to create the design on the loom prior to weaving. It is unlike any otherX woven in the rest of the country due to its design process, which has been called "poetry on the loom."This design is in vogue only at the western and eastern regions of Orissa; similar designs are produced by community groups called the Bhulia, Kostha Asani, and Patara. Saris made out of this fabric feature bands ofbrocade in the borders and also at the ends, calledanchalorpallu. Its forms are purposefully feathered, giving the edges a "hazy and fragile" appearance. This silk has been registered for protection under the Geographical indication of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. In 2007, it was listed as "Orissa X" under the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India.Identify X? (Picture on next slide)

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ3*.X is an antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The text was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its publishers, X is the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish hegemony by subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and the world's economies.Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the US in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler was a major proponent. It was studied, as if factual, in German classrooms after the Nazis came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent by The Times of London in 1921.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ4.X was originally designed and programmed by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix ____, and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.X is a popular use of the four-element special case of polyominoes. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, Id X, often rated as one of the most popular things of its type.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ5.Tradition suggests that Thomas Wolsey first served X with Y at a banquet in 1509. It isn't entirely clear where he got the idea to put the two together, though X had been known in Europe since Roman times, when they were used to help with labour pains and bad breath. They were known to have anti-inflammatory properties.And as a dairy product, Y was more associated with peasant fare than the kind of banquets fit for a king, though there is a link back to medieval Bavaria, when baskets of X were hung to encourage the cows to provide better milk yields.The combination could also have originated at wedding breakfasts in rural France, which used to include a tradition of X with Y.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ6.Vinyl records used to play music were banned by the Nazis during their occupation of France. Hence, underground venues sprang up where French youth would gather to dance to the forbidden sounds of jazz and swing, giving rise to particular word, initially used to refer to any place which stored these records. The word remained after the war, spreading through Europe to refer to any establishment of this sort.It travelled to Americalikely in the mind of returning GIsand began to take root in North America as well.Its shortened version, at one point described a type of dress worn to such establishments. Now use of the shorter form is commonplace.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ7.X, a Bemusement Park, was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy opened in Weston-super-Mare in England in late August 2015.Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana, a disused lido, was "a sinister twist on Disneyland. Banksy described it as a "family theme park unsuitable for children.Banksy created ten new works and funded the construction of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists of the 60 Banksy originally invited to participate.For one exhibit, the books of Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, a British criminal, novelist and former politician, were burned each day in a fire pit.

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ8*.An Xis a terse saying, expressing a general truth, principle, or astute observation, and spoken or written in alaconic and memorable form. X literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in theXsofHippocrates. Examples include:Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgement difficult.Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ9.Xs contributions to the science fiction genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelistsH. G. WellsandJules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction".In 1925, X founded radio stationWRNYwhich broadcast from the 18th floor ofThe Roosevelt Hotelin New York City and was involved in the firsttelevisionbroadcasts.X was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry, importing radio parts from Europe to the United States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless." In April 1908 he foundedModern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called "wireless" at the time. Under its auspices, in January 1909, he founded theWireless Association of America, which had 10 000 members within a year. In 1913, he founded a similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which becameScience and Inventionin 1920. In his honour, annual awards presented at theWorld Science Fiction Conventionare named the Xs.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ10.X is a town on the Coromandel coast. It is believed to have existed since the 3rd century BCE, and was called Maisolos by Ptolemy.It was an important port and the word muslin originated from the name Maisolos,as it was an important trading centre for the commodity.When Marco Polo visited the place circa 1289-1293,he called the place Mutfiliffn.The East India Company also built its first factory in India here and it became a 17th-century trading port for French, British and Dutch ships.A currently mid-sized public sector bank was also established here in 1923.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ11.X, is a road in Lutyens' Delhi, which was formerly called Albuquerque Road. The name of the road commemorates the martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi. He spent the last five months of his life, or 144 days, as guest of the Birla family, at Birla House (situated on this road).The Birla residence was purchased by the Government of India in 1966 to house the Gandhi Smriti. The National Defence College of India is situated right next to the Gandhi Smriti.Simply ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ12.Starting with only a group of 10 in 2009, it now has 40 members, made up largely of Sydneysiders.During the famous Sydney test for the past 6 years, they are seated in rows of 10, divided on geographical lines. This year there was a South Coast row, consisting of fans from Minnamurra and Kiama. Next year, there will be a crew from Coffs Harbour and the central coast.Their kit includes a silver wig, a suit, and a microphone sporting Channel Nine's Wide World of Sports logo and a number, from one to 40, according to which row and seat they are placed in.Their goal is to fill an entire bay and to have day two become a celebration of _________ , just as the third day has become Jane McGrath Day, when fans are encouraged to wear pink in honour of the McGrath Foundation, a charity raising the awareness of breast cancer.According to Michael Hennessy- "To be honest, being Gen X, I've only really seen him at his best commentating but if you look back and dig a bit deeper he was a flamboyant all-rounder, great leggie, an aggressive batsman and you just love him more and more.This group is known as X in honour of this cricket legend.Id X

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ13*.The Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, is an imposing gateway which was built under the patronage of Nawab Asaf-Ud-dowlah in 1784. It is an example of Awadhi architecture. Being an entrance to the city of Lucknow, Russell, the reporter of The New York Times who accompanied the victorious British army that entered Lucknow in 1858, after India's First War of Independence, had called the stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil the most beautiful and spectacular cityscape that he had ever seen, better than Rome, Paris, London and Constantinople.This grand sixty foot tall structure was used in something that symbolizes modernization. What?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ14.X is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons, where it has official status alongside German and Italian and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in X-speaking areas. X has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian since 1996.X is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area, although X retains a small number of words from these languages. The earliest writing identified as X dates from the 10th or 11th century, although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a further shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival and the start of a language movement dedicated to halting the decline of the language.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ15.This version of "Unchained Melody stayed at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart, selling more than 1.8 million copies and becoming the best-selling single of 1995.How do we know one of the people from the duo now?

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ16.X Vedantais a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Xrefers to the idea that the true Self,Atman, is the same as the highest reality. It gives "a unifying interpretation of the whole body of Upanishads,providing scriptural authority for the postulation of the non-duality ofAtmanandBrahman. It emphasizesJivanmukta, the idea thatmoksha is achievable in this life.The principal, though not the first, exponent of the X Vedanta-interpretation wasAdi Shankarain the 8th century.In contrast, the Y Vedanta school believes thatGod(Vishnu, supreme soul) and the individual souls exist as independent realities, and these are distinct.ID X and Y.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ17.Doin It with Class: The X Dot to Dot is a connect-the-dots book by X.It was released by Sugoi Books (the same people responsible for the Drake Coloring Book). Were taking X, in all her beauty and self confidence, and exploring her image, putting her body in lots of different scenarios, said a Sugoi spokesperson.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ18*.The story of the city of X is recorded inGenesis 11:19. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was calledX.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ19.The following are excerpt from a book called Bard of the Deal by Hart Seeley. What is the book about?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBDonald trumps book reviews!

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ1.For years, super-fans of X have put all his work under a microscope and come to the theory that his films exist within the same world.While talking to Australia'sthe Project, the Oscar winner confirmed the theory, butalso addedthat there are some movies of his that are movies that characters inothermovies of his would watch - essentially, fictions inside a fiction.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA1.Quentin Tarantino

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ2.Orissa Xis ageographically tagged product ofOdisha.Also known as "Bandha of Orissa", it is made through a process of tie-dying the warp and weft threads to create the design on the loom prior to weaving. It is unlike any otherX woven in the rest of the country due to its design process, which has been called "poetry on the loom."This design is in vogue only at the western and eastern regions of Orissa; similar designs are produced by community groups called the Bhulia, Kostha Asani, and Patara. Saris made out of this fabric feature bands ofbrocade in the borders and also at the ends, calledanchalorpallu. Its forms are purposefully feathered, giving the edges a "hazy and fragile" appearance. This silk has been registered for protection under the Geographical indication of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. In 2007, it was listed as "Orissa X" under the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India.Identify X? (Picture on next slide)

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Orissa Ikat

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ3*.X is an antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The text was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its publishers, X is the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish hegemony by subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and the world's economies.Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the US in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler was a major proponent. It was studied, as if factual, in German classrooms after the Nazis came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent by The Times of London in 1921.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA3.The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ4.X was originally designed and programmed by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix ____, and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.X is a popular use of the four-element special case of polyominoes. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, Id X, often rated as one of the most popular things of its type.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA4.Tetris

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ5.Tradition suggests that Thomas Wolsey first served X with Y at a banquet in 1509. It isn't entirely clear where he got the idea to put the two together, though X had been known in Europe since Roman times, when they were used to help with labour pains and bad breath. They were known to have anti-inflammatory properties.And as a dairy product, Y was more associated with peasant fare than the kind of banquets fit for a king, though there is a link back to medieval Bavaria, when baskets of X were hung to encourage the cows to provide better milk yields.The combination could also have originated at wedding breakfasts in rural France, which used to include a tradition of X with Y.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA5.Strawberries and Cream

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ6.Vinyl records used to play music were banned by the Nazis during their occupation of France. Hence, underground venues sprang up where French youth would gather to dance to the forbidden sounds of jazz and swing, giving rise to particular word, initially used to refer to any place which stored these records. The word remained after the war, spreading through Europe to refer to any establishment of this sort.It travelled to Americalikely in the mind of returning GIsand began to take root in North America as well.Its shortened version, at one point described a type of dress worn to such establishments. Now use of the shorter form is commonplace.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA6.Disco, from Discotheque

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ7.X, a Bemusement Park, was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy opened in Weston-super-Mare in England in late August 2015.Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana, a disused lido, was "a sinister twist on Disneyland. Banksy described it as a "family theme park unsuitable for children.Banksy created ten new works and funded the construction of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists of the 60 Banksy originally invited to participate.For one exhibit, the books of Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, a British criminal, novelist and former politician, were burned each day in a fire pit.

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ8*.An Xis a terse saying, expressing a general truth, principle, or astute observation, and spoken or written in alaconic and memorable form. X literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in theXsofHippocrates. Examples include:Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgement difficult.Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA8.Aphorism

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ9.Xs contributions to the science fiction genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelistsH. G. WellsandJules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction".In 1925, X founded radio stationWRNYwhich broadcast from the 18th floor ofThe Roosevelt Hotelin New York City and was involved in the firsttelevisionbroadcasts.X was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry, importing radio parts from Europe to the United States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless." In April 1908 he foundedModern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called "wireless" at the time. Under its auspices, in January 1909, he founded theWireless Association of America, which had 10 000 members within a year. In 1913, he founded a similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which becameScience and Inventionin 1920. In his honour, annual awards presented at theWorld Science Fiction Conventionare named the Xs.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA9.Hugo GernsbackAward: Hugos

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ10.X is a town on the Coromandel coast. It is believed to have existed since the 3rd century BCE, and was called Maisolos by Ptolemy.It was an important port and the word muslin originated from the name Maisolos,as it was an important trading centre for the commodity.When Marco Polo visited the place circa 1289-1293,he called the place Mutfiliffn.The East India Company also built its first factory in India here and it became a 17th-century trading port for French, British and Dutch ships.A currently mid-sized public sector bank was also established here in 1923.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA10.Machilipatnam or Masulipatam

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ11.X, is a road in Lutyens' Delhi, which was formerly called Albuquerque Road. The name of the road commemorates the martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi. He spent the last five months of his life, or 144 days, as guest of the Birla family, at Birla House (situated on this road).The Birla residence was purchased by the Government of India in 1966 to house the Gandhi Smriti. The National Defence College of India is situated right next to the Gandhi Smriti.Simply ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA11.Tees January Road

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ12.Starting with only a group of 10 in 2009, it now has 40 members, made up largely of Sydneysiders.During the famous Sydney test for the past 6 years, they are seated in rows of 10, divided on geographical lines. This year there was a South Coast row, consisting of fans from Minnamurra and Kiama. Next year, there will be a crew from Coffs Harbour and the central coast.Their kit includes a silver wig, a suit, and a microphone sporting Channel Nine's Wide World of Sports logo and a number, from one to 40, according to which row and seat they are placed in.Their goal is to fill an entire bay and to have day two become a celebration of _________ , just as the third day has become Jane McGrath Day, when fans are encouraged to wear pink in honour of the McGrath Foundation, a charity raising the awareness of breast cancer.According to Michael Hennessy- "To be honest, being Gen X, I've only really seen him at his best commentating but if you look back and dig a bit deeper he was a flamboyant all-rounder, great leggie, an aggressive batsman and you just love him more and more.This group is known as X in honour of this cricket legend.Id X

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA12.Ritchie Benaud Support crowd.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ13*.The Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, is an imposing gateway which was built under the patronage of Nawab Asaf-Ud-dowlah in 1784. It is an example of Awadhi architecture. Being an entrance to the city of Lucknow, Russell, the reporter of The New York Times who accompanied the victorious British army that entered Lucknow in 1858, after India's First War of Independence, had called the stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil the most beautiful and spectacular cityscape that he had ever seen, better than Rome, Paris, London and Constantinople.This grand sixty foot tall structure was used in something that symbolizes modernization. What?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA13.Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation logo

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ14.X is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons, where it has official status alongside German and Italian and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in X-speaking areas. X has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian since 1996.X is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area, although X retains a small number of words from these languages. The earliest writing identified as X dates from the 10th or 11th century, although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a further shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival and the start of a language movement dedicated to halting the decline of the language.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA14.Romansh

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ15.This version of "Unchained Melody stayed at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart, selling more than 1.8 million copies and becoming the best-selling single of 1995.How do we know one of the people from the duo now?

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THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA15.Bronn from Game of Thrones

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ16.X Vedantais a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Xrefers to the idea that the true Self,Atman, is the same as the highest reality. It gives "a unifying interpretation of the whole body of Upanishads,providing scriptural authority for the postulation of the non-duality ofAtmanandBrahman. It emphasizesJivanmukta, the idea thatmoksha is achievable in this life.The principal, though not the first, exponent of the X Vedanta-interpretation wasAdi Shankarain the 8th century.In contrast, the Y Vedanta school believes thatGod(Vishnu, supreme soul) and the individual souls exist as independent realities, and these are distinct.ID X and Y.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA16.X AdvaitaY Dvaita

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ17.Doin It with Class: The X Dot to Dot is a connect-the-dots book by X.It was released by Sugoi Books (the same people responsible for the Drake Coloring Book). Were taking X, in all her beauty and self confidence, and exploring her image, putting her body in lots of different scenarios, said a Sugoi spokesperson.ID X, please.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA17.Kim Kardashian

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ18*.The story of the city of X is recorded inGenesis 11:19. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was calledX.

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA18.City of Babel or Tower of Babel

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBQ19.The following are excerpt from a book called Bard of the Deal by Hart Seeley. What is the book about?

THE NSIT QUIZ CLUBA19.Humorist and reporter Hart Seely has turned Donald Trumps interviews, speeches, and tweets into a hilarious poetry book.

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