BERTIE BOTT’S EVERY FLAVOUR QUIZ

ANINDYA PADHY

I.T. (4th Year)

RULES•There are in total 9 questions & 1 Long Visual Connect.•Infinite Pounce rules apply.•+10 for questions on direct and pass.•+10/-10 for questions on a pounce.•Please wait for the QM to close pounce, before answering on direct.

Q.•The term X is a registered trademark, which is the name of an effect, used in the scene from Y.•Following excerpt describes the technology used for the X effect in Y, in brief:

“... the camera path was pre-designed using computer-generated visualizations as a guide. Cameras were arranged, behind a green or blue screen, on a track and aligned through a laser targeting system, forming a complex curve through space. The cameras were then triggered at extremely close intervals, so the action continued to unfold, in extreme slow-motion, while the viewpoint (as in audience/viewer) moved. ...”•Name X & Y. (NEED BOTH PARTS IN CASE OF POUNCE)

X=BULLET TIME, Y=THE MATRIX

Q.•Sir John _____ (image in next slide), was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. He became a prominent member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson".•The work for which he is best known today, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax is a political allegory and a coded attack on the monarchy. His New Discourse described a forerunner to the modern flush toilet that was installed at his house at Kelston.•X, in a February 2014 interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show, claimed that he/she is one of Sir John _____'s descendants.•Identify the popular descendant ‘X’.

KIT HARINGTON

Q.•The origin of the code-term X dates back to 1971 in San Rafael, California, which then was used by a group of people called ‘Waldos’. •They used to meet at the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School at a particular time, hence, it was referred as “X Louis”, later shortened to simply “X", which consequently evolved into a codeword which used to mean what it presently means. •Observances based on X include time-centric activity of some kind, as well as, an unofficial global event on April the twentieth, annually. In one such occasion in 2009 at UC Santa Cruz, the VC of Student Affairs had to send e-mails to parents stating: "The growth in scale of this activity has become a concern for both the university and surrounding community.”•Name the notorious term “X”.

X = 420 , 4:20 OR 4/20•The activities being smoking cannabis around the time

4:20 p.m., as well as smoking and celebrating cannabis on the date April 20 (4/20 in U.S. form), every year.

•The original plan of the Waldos was to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about, for

which they kept 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time.•The plan, later on, failed and 420 ultimately evolved into a codeword that the teens used to mean marijuana-smoking in

general.

Q.

•X, born to King Prithu in the Solar Dynasty, was an ancestor of Lord Ram. As he grew old, X's soul deserved ascension to the heavens, but he wished to do so with his mortal body & requested his Guru Vasishta to perform the needful rites to achieve this goal. Vasishta refused to do so as it was against the law of nature.•X then approached Vasishta's eldest son Shakti to help him, attempting to lure the young sage with promises of wealth and fame, which angered Shakti, who cursed X, turning him into Y.•Y, later on, met sage Z & appealed to him for assistance, to which Z, who had an intense rivalry of Vasishta, agreed. Upon Y’s arrival in heaven, the Devas were alarmed by this unnatural occurrence. Led by Indra, they refused to permit him to enter, & tossed him out. Furious, Z used his powers to arrest Y's fall, causing the latter to be suspended mid-air upside-down.•Z again used his powers for the creation of a parallel heaven, restored Y & began establishing him as the Indra of the new heaven. This alarmed the Devas who then tried to console the sage & withdraw him from his act.•Z gradually reached a compromise to let Y inhabit the new heaven, which shall be called Y's heaven & Y shall reside upside down in his heaven so as not to supersede the command of Indra.•Name Y, Z. Name X for bonus points. (NEED Y & Z IN CASE OF POUNCE)

X=SATYAVRATA, Y=TRISHANKU,

Z=VISHWAMITRA•The story of Trishanku is told in the Bala Kanda portion of

the Valmiki Ramayana.•Trishanku is commonly referred to through mention of

"Trishanku's heaven". The word Trishanku has come to denote a middleground or limbo between one's goals or desires and

one's current state or possessions.

Q.

•X is an unusual and complex form of Y that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon, which can be seen on land or at sea, in polar regions or in deserts. It can involve almost any kind of distant object, including boats, islands & the coastline.•X is the Italian name for the Arthurian sorceress & antagonist of King Arthur & Queen Guinevere, Morgana Le Fay, from a belief that these Y’s, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their death.•One of the most famous example is the Flying Dutchman (image in next slide), a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever.•In the most recent appearance, a “floating city” (image in next slide) seemed to appear over the city of Foshan in China’s Guangdong province, which lasted a few minutes. A few days later, a similar thing was reportedly seen in the province of Jiangxi.•Name the phenomena X and Y.(NEED BOTH PARTS IN CASE OF POUNCE)

X=FATA MORGANA, Y=MIRAGE

•"La Fata Morgana" ("The Fairy Morgana") is the name of Morgan le Fay in Italian.•The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar,

sometimes seen to be glowing with ghostly light.

One of the possible explanations of the origin of this legend is a Fata Morgana

mirage seen at sea.

Q.•Saint Young Men is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. Its plot involves X and Y, who are living as roommates in an apartment in Tachikawa, part of the suburbs of Tokyo. While taking a vacation, they attempt to hide their identities and understand modern Japanese society.•In the series, X is portrayed as an impassioned person for his love for all (even for shopping), whereas Y tends to be calm and thrifty, and also likes manga.•Apart from its manga series, it has also been adapted into 2 original animation DVDs & an anime film which was released on May 10, 2013.•Name the two protagonists X & Y.

X=JESUS CHRIST, Y=GAUTAMA BUDDHA

•The comedy in the series often involves visual gags and puns, as well as jokes in reference to elements of

Christianity and Buddhism; for example, Jesus creates wine from water in a public bath and Buddha shines when

excited.•Each chapter in the manga comics shows their lives during an average day, when they are sightseeing, drinking beer,

blogging, or playing video games.•In Japan, the manga has sold over 10 million copies. It

received a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize & was nominated at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Q.•Catchphrase “P” commonly associated with anime shows and manga books that can often be found on Tumblr to express a quest to resolve unrequited admiration. Images utilizing “P” will sometimes feature superimposed cherry blossoms, meant to represent romance, and anime-style facial expressions.•While the word ‘X’, which appears in “P”, is depicted in Japan as an upperclass person, usually of a higher age, or senior, kōhai is depicted as a protégé or junior. In manga & anime, ‘X’ is depicted as an older person whom a particular younger person adores.•‘X’ can be used as a suffix for addressing a person like -chan, -san or even -X itself, e.g, "Urameshi-chan”, “Urameshi-san”, or “Urameshi-X”.• Identify “P” & ‘X’. (NEED BOTH IN CASE OF POUNCE)

X=SENPAI, P=NOTICE ME, SENPAI

•‘Senpai’, or ‘Sempai’, is a Japanese honorific term used when speaking to someone of an elevated social status in schools, dojos or sports clubs. Romantic anime and manga often feature stories involving infatuations with

senpai.•Several variations of the catchphrase are being used in

social networking and blogging sites, like “Senpai, Notice Me”, “I Hope Senpai Will Notice Me”,  “Has

Senpai Noticed Me Yet?”.•On the other hand, if the unrequited admiration is

reciprocated by Senpai, then Kōhai could positively say “Senpai Noticed Me!” or “Senpai Has Noticed”.

Q.•X is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter video game. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre.•X was notorious for its high levels of graphic violence and satanic imagery. It sparked controversy, when it was found that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, were avid players of the game.• The term “Y” was used to described the style of gameplay in X-like games. While the term was initially popular, it was after 1996 gradually replaced by "first-person shooter", around 1998 the phrase "first-person shooter" had firmly superseded “Y”.•Name X & Y. (NEED BOTH PARTS IN CASE OF POUNCE)

X=DOOM, Y=DOOM CLONES

Q.•[08:46] is an app which is a narrative driven experience designed for virtual reality, which makes you embody an office worker in the ________ during the X events.•Anthony Krafft, the creative director on the project, states that this game was produced "as a tribute to the victims of our generation-shaping experience” and that the team wanted to approach the historical events from an individual nature.•The team developed the game with references ranging from interviews to many journalistic works on X.•Name X.

X=9/11 OR SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS

•It lets you experience the events of 9/11 from the perspective of one of the office workers in the North

Tower of the World Trade Center.•The title is a reference to the exact time the first

plane, American Airlines Flight 11, crashed into the North Tower, between floors 93 and 99.

LONG VISUAL CONNECT•You will be shown 6 movie posters, which have a running common theme amongst them.•The points to identify THE THEME are specified in each slide.•There are no points for identifying individual names of the movies or the movie franchises.

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LIST OF POST-APOCALYPTIC THEMED MOVIES

THANK YOU & LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!