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RULESWE ARE GODS. You may petition grievances with us but our decision is final.Usual rules, ie, dont google, bing, wiki, etc. Use of any technology other than your brain is forbidden.34 Questions in the prelims. Each question is worth +1. Star questions (5,10,15,20,25,30) will be used decide in case of ties. 8 team final.GL HF!

Question : 0A/An X machine is a term used to describe any deliberately over-engineered machine which performs simple tasks.The picture on the next slide is an example of a/an X machine. Here, Tom sets an elaborate trap by using a convoluted procedure in order to perform a simple task of capturing Jerry.Which famous inventor is this machine named after (X)?

ANSWERRube Goldberg

Question : 1Recent tweet from Barack Obama regarding what?(Pic on the next slide)

ANSWERHouse of Cards

Question : 2Dr. Angela Zito, a co-director of the NYU Center for Religion and Media, noted that the movie X, illustrates the Buddhist idea of samsara, or continuing rebirth - In Buddhism, nobody ever imagines they are going to escape samsara until everybody else does. That is why you have bodhisattvas, who reach the brink of nirvana, and stop and come back and save the rest of us. The protagonist of X is the bodhisattva. He is not going to abandon the world. On the contrary, he is released back into the world to save it.Which movie is she talking about?

ANSWERGroundhog Day

QUESTION:3Facts about X:One does not simply lose all her sons, husband and an important organ all at a same time unless she is X.Breaking News! Science discovers that Adam was actually Alok Nath and Eve was X!Statistics : Tear-Glands of X can hold sufficient Water that can fulfill Water Requirement of a Family of 4 for 19 DaysMarrying X in a movie was an accepted method of committing suicide.Once X was given anesthesia. She was crying even when she was unconscious!

Claim to Fame: She contributes to one of the most famous mother/son clichs.

Who are we talking about?

ANSWERNirupa Roy

QUESTION:4The picture on the next slide is the epitaph to which famous personality?

ANSWERShakespeare

QUESTION:5 **The pictures on the next three slides are excerpts from Xs notebook.Who is X?

ANSWERGuillermo Del Toro

QUESTION:6The King in Yellow, an 1895 collection of short stories by Robert Chambers, is now a bestseller on Amazon, where it hit number nine on its list of top-selling books due to the popularity of a recent television show X.X uses common phrases from The King in Yellow such as The Yellow King, Carcosa, You, Sir, should unmask among many others.This collection of stories has influenced writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Robert Heinlein, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman and George R. R. Martin. What caused this recent spike in popularity, ie, what is X?

ANSWERTrue Detective

QUESTION:7Dr. F. Roy Dean SchlippeEmmesey SquireDr. C. Niall DeMenchaSir E. BrumStefan BashkirAlfonse LeeMalachy PasteurViolet TsirblouConstantin BashkirColonel Xavier Lee

Put funda.

ANSWERArtemis Fowl

QUESTION:8The picture on the next slide depicts an iconic scene from a particular movie.Which movie are we talking about?(pic on next slide)

ANSWERThe Godfather scene The blank is horse head.

QUESTION:9Minimalist poster depicting something on the next slide. What?

ANSWERLucia

QUESTION:10 **Nikhil Gandhi, business head of UTV said, We announced this venture five months ago, but weve been working on it for over 18 months. Today, I have to thank the BMC, the residents associations and various other bodies that showed overwhelming support. Not only did we want people to come closer to their favourite actors without paying for a ticket, but also help the city look prettier with a space thats dedicated to the film industry that thrives here. What is he talking about?

ANSWERBollywood Walk Of Stars

QUESTION:11(Video)The Anu Malik song in the video is Jaane Mujhe Kya Hua from Baazi.Which famous composition is this ripped from?

ANSWERFur Elise

QUESTION:12On February 7, 2014, one of the characters in a famous comic strip declared that X was gay, in protest of an Indian Supreme Court decision making it a crime to be born gay. The same character then concluded with, "Okay, we're done here," to which X replied, "Good, because I have a lot of gay stuff to do."X is said to depict the stereotypes held by the world towards Indians. He is also one of the first Indian comic characters to win hearts globally.Give me X.

ANSWERAsok, from Dilbert

QUESTION:13X is registered as the 112th Pokemon in the Pokedex, although it was the first one created according to Ken Sugimoro, one of the original designers of the first generation of Pokemon titles.This possibly explains why we can see statues of X whenever you first step into a gym in Pokemon Red/Green.Which pokemon are we talking about?

ANSWERRhydon

QUESTION:14X is a third player multiplayer online battle arena game developed by Hi-Rez Studios that is in its open beta testing stage. In X, players take the form of mythical gods and indulge in tower defense (like DotA and LoL).In June 2012, the Universal Society of Hindus wanted the gods from Indian mythology such as Kali, Agni and Vamana removed from the game as they found it offensive that players controlled gods. There was particular opposition to how Kali was dressed. They felt that the Kali model as being depicted in a "pornographic style.This prompted major overhaul which included concealing armor in December 2013.ID X, which also means strike with a firm blow.

ANSWERSmite

QUESTION:15The following is a transcript from a football game played between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football. The producer of MNF passed word on to thebroadcast team, consisting ofHoward CosellandFrank Gifford, and suggested that they relay the news of X's death to the television audience.It was decided that Cosell, who had interviewed X during an earlier broadcast in 1974 and who had expressed some apprehension about telling the viewers that Xs death, should relay the news.Cosell:... but (the game)'s suddenly been placed in total perspective for us; I'll finish this, they're in the hurry-up offense.

Gifford: Third down, four.(Chuck) Foreman... it'll be fourth down.(Matt) Cavanaughwill let it run down for one final attempt, he'll let the seconds tick off to give Miami no opportunity whatsoever.(whistle blows)Timeout is called with three seconds remaining,John Smithis on the line. And I don't care what's on the line, Howard, you have got to say what we know in the booth.

Cosell: Yes, we have to say it. Remember this is just afootballgame, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News from (..): X, outside of his apartment building on the(..), shot twice in the back, rushed to () Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which, in duty bound, we have to take. Frank?

Gifford: (after a pause) Indeed, it is.

ANSWERJohn Lennon

QUESTION:16The album art which is shown on the next slide is that of Heritage by Opeth.Identify the person who has been depicted as Satan.You would associate him with Mikael Akerfeldt, the vocalist of Opeth, although he is famous for other reasons.

ANSWERSteven Wilson

QUESTION:17The following minimalist posters depict a famous franchise.Who directed/produced this brilliant trilogy?

ANSWERRichard Linklater

QUESTION:18Put funda. Keywords.

ANSWERChekov (of Chekovs Gun)

QUESTION:19In the 2008 Razzie awards, the award for the worst actress was shared by Lindsay Lohan and X, for the same movie I Know Who Killed Me. Incidentally, X was part of the couple who won the worst screen couple award in the same year, the other half being Lindsay Lohan.Give me X.

ANSWERLindsay Lohan herself

QUESTION:20Y is the General of the Samurai who belong to the Land of Iron in the Naruto universe . (pic in the next slide)Ys name is inspired from the actor, XY, who was quite famous in the Japanese film industry for acting in Jidaigeki (period dramas set in the Edo period) movies. His most famous portrayal was of the nameless ronin who would introduce himself as Sanjuro.Ys katana called Z is named so because 16 of XYs films were directed by Z.Give me XY and Z.

ANSWERXY- Toshiro MifuneZ-Akira Kurosawa

QUESTION:21(Video)The video shows the recreation of something in GTA V. What?

ANSWERSkyfall train scene

QUESTION:22Alamut is a 1938 Vladimir Bartol novel which deals with the story of Hassan-i Sabah and the group he founded (X), and is named after Xs Alamut fortress.The story is that of ibn Tahir, who joins the Alamut garrison and is appointed to be a fedai, who are expected to obey orders without question and to forfeit their lives if necessary. They are made to believe that they would go to heaven if they died in the line of duty.Hassan intends to use his army to attack the Seljuk empire and through a series of machinations, ibn Tahir is sent to execute the grand Vizier of the Seljuk Sultan.Tahir succeeds in his mission but the Vizier reveals that the murder was just to finish a vendetta that Hassan had against the Vizier.When ibn Tahir returns to Alamut to kill Hassan, Hassan receives him and also reveals him his true motto: "Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted".This book forms the story of the first entity of a now famous franchise. What am I talking about?

ANSWERAssassins Creed

QUESTION:23Flight 180 is the title of an X-Files episode which was cancelled. Its screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick wrote the 14 page script after the TWA Flight 800 explosion and its investigation, which gathered much attention to the media. He later said, "I was actually flying home to Kentucky and I read this story about a woman who was on vacation and her mom called her and said 'Don't take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it'. She switched flights and the plane that she would have been on crashed. I thought, thats creepywhat if she was supposed to die on that flight?What did this script end up becoming?

ANSWERFinal Destination

QUESTION:24Several theories exist as to why Nathan Gale murdered X while X was performing onstage in 2005 with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio Gale turned violent due to the breakup of Y (X was a part of Y)The public dispute between X and the vocalist of Y.Gale felt that X had stolen a song he had written. This theory is widely accepted as it was later proven that X suffered from schizophrenia and had stopped taking his medicines.X and Y?

QUESTION:25Where does this cover of Batman comics draw inspiration from?(Pic in next slide)

ANSWERPieta, by Michelangelo

QUESTION:26Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (2009) revealed that the Nobel Laureate X was, for a while, on the list of KGB agents living in the USA.Based on the notes of Vasiliev, a former KGB officer, the book states that X was recruited by the KGB in 1941 before making a trip to China and was given a cover name of Argo. He is said to have expressed desire and willingness to help the Soviet agents he met in Havana and London in the 1940s. However, the book also states that X failed to "give any political information" and was never "verified in practical work", so contacts with Argo were ceased by 1950.It has been speculated as to whether X was a psuedo-spook seeing his activities as literary material or whether he was a genuine, yet ineffective one.Who is X?

ANSWERErnest Hemingway

QUESTION:27This is a poem by Rachel Rostad, titled From X, to Y.So let me cry over boys more than I speakLet me fulfill your diversity quotaJust one more () girl wanting her white heroNo wonder ____________ got yellow feverWe giggle behind small hands and no speak EngrishWhat else could a man see in me?What else could I be but what you make me?Subordinate, submissive, some plot, go aheadTell me Im overreactingIgnore the fact that your book has sold over 4 million copies worldwideI am plastered across movie screens, a best-selling caricature.

Give me X and Y.

ANSWERX Cho ChangY JK Rowling

QUESTION:28(video)Identify the composition and the composer which is being depicted in this Bugs Bunny video.

ANSWERBarber Of SevilleRossini

QUESTION:29Recent tweets by a personality visiting India about Daler Mehndis Tunak Tunak. Who owns this twitter account?

ANSWERDeadmau-five

QUESTION:30In 1841, X-- already a bestselling author -- was due to give a talk in Edinburgh and needed to kill some time beforehand. So he decided to walk through a graveyard, because the Victorians never got around to inventing non-creepy ways to have fun. That night's stroll in fact led to the creation of everyone's favourite miser, Y.

As X walked through what we assume was a thick Scottish fog, he saw a gravestone which caught his eye . The grave identified him as a "meal man," a reference to the fact that he sold cornmeal. But due to a combination of the gloom and Xs own mild dyslexia, he mistook the words for "mean man."

X was struck by a memorial that he thought would have "shriveled" the mans soul by having to take "such a terrible thing to eternity.The grave marker was lost during construction work at part of the kirkyard in 1932. Two years later, he released a novel about a man whose legacy of stinginess would haunt him from beyond the grave, and thanks to X, it's now about as popular to name your kids Y as it is to call them Adolph.

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ANSWERX-Charles DickensY-Ebenezer Scrooge

QUESTION:31XYZ is a socio-political satirical comedy written by Cho Ramaswamy who stars as the titular character. The film is a sarcastic take on the then political and social affairs of India and is considered a fine portrayal of the political attitude existent till today.Cho Ramaswamy also runs a magazine called Z, whose front page is a satirical cartoon, pertinent to an issue of current social and public interest.What is the title of the movie, ie, who is XYZ?

ANSWERMuhammed Bin Tughlaq

QUESTION:32As a reference to his voice actor, this superhero gained his powers by being bitten on the chin by a radioactive celebrity X, whose reasons of biting him are unknown; since then, he has taken the responsibility of protecting the city of Chincinnati (a spoof on Cincinnati), while taking the secret identity of Charles Hampton Indigo (C.H.In, or Ch. In for "Charles Indigo") for the local newspaper The Daily Blabbity.He also, for a brief while, had a sidekick named Cleft.Who is the celebrity X who bit him?

ANSWERJay Leno

QUESTION:33Evan Hunter, an American author, said this of X I remember X showing me a lot of newspaper articles about unexplained ____ attacks as a reminder that these things do happen, so we weren't dealing entirely with fantasy. We searched for the turning point where it would get ominous. We recognized immediately that the audience wasn't gonna sit there for two hours waiting for a ____ attack. So we very carefully measured out the lengths between the ____ attacks so that the audience would sit there, we'd throw them a crumb, so to speak.Who is X. And what was X speaking about?

ANSWERBirds, (Alfred Hitchcock)

QUESTION:34What is being described on this XKCD comic? (pic on next slide)

ANSWERRule 34