K-Circle – Arre Bhai

15 October 2016Vishnu Sumanth

Before we begin…

• This is my first K-Circle Quiz, so constructive feedback is welcome.

• Considering that this is a Lone Wolf quiz, the questions are slightly easier by design, so will the marking. Plenty of clues.

• Format:36 questions, divided into two rounds of 18

questions each, with a connect between the two rounds.

Points – 41

1. Identify the idol, and what is so unique about it?

2. What list is this, and what takes top spot, thanks in part to an aggressive Arnab Goswami campaign?

• 1. ?• 2. Stop Construction of the Dakota Access

Pipeline which endangers the water supply to Native American reservations.

• 3. Do not make Kratom a Schedule I substance.

• 4. Rescind the decision to deploy THAAD antimissile system in South Korea.

3. Which famous author/FITB?• He was a medium-fast bowler for Dulwich College and might have

gone on to Oxford if his father's business hadn't collapsed. • He was forced to seek employment with the Hong Kong and

Shanghai Bank (now the HSBC), the experience from which he used to create a character of his.

• Until his college days, he went by the nickname he was given during his boyhood, “Plum”, after he learned that a famous Middlesex cricketer, Pelham Warner, also had the same first name and consequently, nickname.

• Notably, he named his most famous character after a Warwickshire cricketer, Percy _______.

• Who is the person in question, and Fill in the Blanks.

4. Who is ‘X’ and what is the event?

• It started to move from being worship to being a social festival in the eighteenth century when the city’s zamindars began competing for the honour of throwing the biggest and most novel party.

• This feudal free-marketism took the homely, religious affair and converted it into a full-blown entertainment phenomenon.

• But the show took a major leap in 1758 into the public space when the founder of the Rai family of Shovabazar, Nabakrishna Deb, decided to organize a new venue to host the event, this time in honour of ‘X’, to celebrate his recent victory.

• ‘X’ however is said to have replied with shock, “But I am a Christian!”, to which Nabakrishna proceeded to have the event in a new venue (away from the conservatives Hindus of the city), and brought in nautch girls for entertainment besides beef, ham and alcohol for refreshments. This essentially turned the ‘Test match’ style sobriety of the event into an IPL-style dhamaka.

• Who is ‘X’, and what is the event?

5. What are these the Latin origins of?

• ‘New’• ‘Strange’/ ‘Foreign’• ‘Sun’• ‘Lazy’/’X’• ‘Hidden’/ ‘Secret’

6. What are these words, and where have you probably heard them?

• ___ ______ comes from arabic words ____ which means "to be" or "to exist“ and _____ which means "it is" . So its literal meaning is "Be ,and it is".

• ___ ______ actually is a Quranic verse referred five times in Quran. It referred to God's creative power, and God's will and absolute control over every creation.In Surah Baqrah (2:117) this phrase appears as :"The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: “Be! ـ and it is.”

• These words became quite a phenomenon in India in 2011, thanks to the world of Bollywood. What are these words, and where have you probably heard them in an entirely non-Quranic context?

7. Which treaty and why in the news?

• A Member State shall notify the Council of its intention. • In the light of the guidelines provided by the ______,

the _____ shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with the member, setting out the arrangements for the process, taking account of the framework for its future relationship.

• That agreement shall be negotiated in accordance with Article 218(3) of the Treaty. It shall be concluded on by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the Parliament.

Continued

• Thus reads Article 50(2) of the treaty of ‘X’, interpretations of which have been hotly contested from all sides.

• Which treaty is this, and why is it in the news?

8. What was the symbol?

• Last week, in a Serie B match between Spezia and Bari , the referee did ‘X’, never seen before at a football match. ‘X’ was done as a mark of fair play, and received thunderous applause from both sides. This was launched as an initiated by the league to promote fair play and camaraderie between the players.

• In legal parlance, it refers to the layperson term for a ‘permanent residency certificate’.

• What is ‘X’, or what did the referee do?

9. ID.

• Who is the only Indian sportsman to win the unlikely but astounding double of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Dronacharya Award?

10. A+B?

• A is the Roman Goddess of dawn, more popularly known as the ‘bringer of light’.

• B is a Greek Goddess of the north, known for bringing cold winds to the north.

• A and B are together known for being famous as something else, thanks to, one could say, the ‘combined’ effect of what they do.

• Who are A and B, and what are they collectively known as?

• #TakeItAndGo

11. What is the name of the character?

• X’s name is taken from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The author claimed that she wanted it to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it and it seemed that her parents, who liked to prove how clever they are gave her an unusual name that no-one could easily pronounce.

• The character’s last name in the Shakespeare play was "Puckle", but the author felt the name "did not suit her at all", and so the less frivolous and more generic Y made it into the book.

• Give me ‘X’, ‘Y’ and the author.

12. Which district/short story am I talking about?

• XYZ is a district in Punjab, Pakistan. It became a separate district in 1982. It was named after a Sikh religious figure YZ.

• Legend has it that Mr. Z was a kind hearted man who served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travellers passing by a small pond (X in Punjabi) which eventually was called XYZ, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name.

• There is also a park here named after the Sardar YZ.• However, you’ve probably heard of this district in a whole

different context, courtesy Saadat Hassan Manto, and more recently a film starring Pankaj Kapoor.

• What am I talking about? ID XYZ.

13. Who, on his most famous creation?

• “I've grown a goiter by dwelling in this den– As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they happen to be– Which drives the belly close beneath the chin: My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in, Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind: My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet unguided wander to and fro; In front my skin grows loose and long; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye; For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.”

• Who on what?

14. What was it initially called, and why the name change?

• The long jump event at the Olympics used to be called something else prior to the 1950s, when a certain change was made to the rules of the event.

• The earlier name was somewhat synonymous with ‘long jump’, but had to be changed, due to reasons pertaining to ‘political correctness’.

• What was the earlier name? • What change had to be made and why?

15. What is the two word term?• This Financial Year’s budget introduced a levy on the income

accruing to a foreign e-commerce company outside of India. ‘XY’ or 'equalisation levy' as it's called in India, is expected to impact the bottomlines of giants like ‘X’, that make money solely through their online presence, even if they don’t have a brick and mortar presence in the country of levy.

• Their revenue is mostly routed to a tax haven country. This tax will help bring the said companies under the tax radar in India. If you're a business owner, especially running a small business or an online start up, and you conduct advertising and marketing promotions online, if you use ‘X’, the ______ ___ will probably impact you.

16. Possible origins behind what?• Depending on who you ask, there are many stories behind

its origin. It's the number of active chemicals in ‘X’. It's teatime in _______. It has something to do with Hitler's birthday. It's those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.

• ___ is said to have started somewhere in California in the late '70s. It started as the police code for ‘X’, and some even say it was the provision under which ‘X’ as a crime was charged, but others dismiss it as urban legend.

• What am I talking about? What is ‘X’ and what is the story?

17. What ‘first’ did this create, and what is this an excerpt of?

• O Sport, you are Honour! The laurels you bestow have no value unless they have been won in absolute fairness and with perfect impartiality. He who, with some shameful trick, manages to deceive his fellow competitors feels guilt to his very core and lives in fear of the ignominious epithet which shall forever be attached to his name should his trickery be discovered.

18. Who are ‘X’ and ‘Y’?

• While the monument built for X is located on the left of the Hyderabad-Gandipet road, the structure having Y’s name attached to it is on the right.

• Both X and Y were buried in the royal cemetery of the Qutub Shahi kings.

• The monument for X was renowned for having ingenuous cross ventilation, if that helps.

End of Round 1

• Answers

1. Identify the deity. What is so unique about this idol?

Safety Slide

Lord Ganesha, at the Nandrudayan Temple in Tamil Nadu. Only idol in the world without the elephant head.

2. What list is this, and what takes top spot, thanks in part to an aggressive Arnab Goswami campaign?

• 1. ?• 2. Stop Construction of the Dakota Access

Pipeline which endangers the water supply to Native American reservations.

• 3. Do not make Kratom a Schedule I substance.

• 4. Rescind the decision to deploy THAAD antimissile system in South Korea.

Safety Slide

List of ‘People’s Petitions’ on the White House Website,

Number 1 was:“Declare Pakistan a Terrorist State”

3. Which famous author/FITB?• He was a medium-fast bowler for Dulwich College and might have

gone on to Oxford if his father's business hadn't collapsed. • He was forced to seek employment with the Hong Kong and

Shanghai Bank (now the HSBC), the experience from which he used to create a character of his.

• Until his college days, he went by the nickname he was given during his boyhood, “Plum”, after he learned that a famous Middlesex cricketer, Pelham Warner, also had the same first name and consequently, nickname.

• Notably, he named his most famous character after a Warwickshire cricketer, Percy _______.

• Who is the person in question, and Fill in the Blanks.

Safety Slide

X – P.G. WodehouseThe cricketer being Percy Jeeves

4. Who is ‘X’ and what is the event?

• It started to move from being worship to being a social festival in the eighteenth century when the city’s zamindars began competing for the honour of throwing the biggest and most novel party.

• This feudal free-marketism took the homely, religious affair and converted it into a full-blown entertainment phenomenon.

• But the show took a major leap in 1758 into the public space when the founder of the Rai family of Shovabazar, Nabakrishna Deb, decided to organize a new venue to host the event, this time in honour of ‘X’, to celebrate his recent victory.

• ‘X’ however is said to have replied with shock, “But I am a Christian!”, to which Nabakrishna proceeded to have the event in a new venue (away from the conservatives Hindus of the city), and brought in nautch girls for entertainment besides beef, ham and alcohol for refreshments. This essentially turned the ‘Test match’ style sobriety of the event into an IPL-style dhamaka.

• Who is ‘X’, and what is the event?

Safety Slide

X - Robert Clive after his victory at Plassey, The event being the world famous Calcutta Durga Ashtami/Durga

Pujo.

5. What are these the Latin origins of?

• ‘New’• ‘Strange’/ ‘Foreign’• ‘Sun’• ‘Lazy’/’X’• ‘Hidden’/ ‘Secret’

Safety Slide

The Noble Gases

• New – Neo(n)• Strange/Foreign – Xeno(n)• Sun – Rado(n)• Hidden/Secret – Krypto(n)• Lazy/Inert – Argo(n)

6. What are these words, and where have you probably heard them?

• ___ ______ comes from arabic words ____ which means "to be" or "to exist“ and _____ which means "it is" . So its literal meaning is "Be ,and it is".

• ___ ______ actually is a Quranic verse referred five times in Quran. It referred to God's creative power, and God's will and absolute control over every creation.In Surah Baqrah (2:117) this phrase appears as :"The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: “Be! ـ and it is.”

• These words became quite a phenomenon in India in 2011, thanks to the world of Bollywood. What are these words, and where have you probably heard them in an entirely non-Quranic context?

Safety Slide

The words are Kunfaya Kun, and thanks to the Ranbir Kapoor film Rockstar.

7. Which treaty and why in the news?

• A Member State shall notify the Council of its intention. • In the light of the guidelines provided by the ______,

the _____ shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with the member, setting out the arrangements for the process, taking account of the framework for its future relationship.

• That agreement shall be negotiated in accordance with Article 218(3) of the Treaty. It shall be concluded on by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the Parliament.

• Thus reads Article 50(2) of the treaty of ‘X’, interpretations of which have been hotly contested from all sides.

• Which treaty is this, and why is it in the news?

Safety Slide

This is the Treaty of Lisbon, the blanks being withdraw from the Union.

In the news thanks to a potential Brexit.

8. What was the symbol?

• Last week, in a Serie B match between Spezia and Bari , the referee did ‘X’, never seen before at a football match. ‘X’ was done as a mark of fair play, and received thunderous applause from both sides. This was launched as an initiated by the league to promote fair play and camaraderie between the players.

• In legal parlance, it refers to the layperson term for a ‘permanent residency certificate’.

• What is ‘X’, or what did the referee do?

Safety Slide

A ‘Green Card’ was shown.

• Permanent residency certificates in the United States are referred to as ‘Green Cards’, and are, contrary to popular belief, not proofs of citizenship.

9. ID.

• Who is the only Indian sportsman to win the unlikely but astounding double of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Dronacharya Award?

Safety Slide

Pullela Gopichand

10. A+B?

• A is the Roman Goddess of dawn, more popularly known as the ‘bringer of light’.

• B is a Greek Goddess of the north, known for bringing cold winds to the north.

• A and B are together known for being famous as something else, thanks to, one could say, the ‘combined’ effect of what they do.

• Who are A and B, and what are they collectively known as?

• #TakeItAndGo

Safety Slide

A – AuroraB – Borealis

• Goddess of Light + Goddess of the North Wind = Northern Lights

11. What is the name of the character?

• X’s name is taken from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The author claimed that she wanted it to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it and it seemed that her parents, who liked to prove how clever they are gave her an unusual name that no-one could easily pronounce.

• The character’s last name in the Shakespeare play was "Puckle", but the author felt the name "did not suit her at all", and so the less frivolous and more generic Y made it into the book.

• Give me ‘X’, ‘Y’ and the author.

Safety Slide

X – HermioneY – Granger,

the author obviously being Rowling.

12. Which district/short story am I talking about?

• XYZ is a district in Punjab, Pakistan. It became a separate district in 1982. It was named after a Sikh religious figure YZ.

• Legend has it that Mr. Z was a kind hearted man who served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travellers passing by a small pond (X in Punjabi) which eventually was called XYZ, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name.

• There is also a park here named after the Sardar YZ.• However, you’ve probably heard of this district in a whole

different context, courtesy Saadat Hassan Manto, and more recently a film starring Pankaj Kapoor.

• What am I talking about? ID XYZ.

Safety Slide

X – Toba, Y – Tek, Z – Singh

13. Who, on his most famous creation?

• “I've grown a goiter by dwelling in this den– As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they happen to be– Which drives the belly close beneath the chin: My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in, Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin. My loins into my paunch like levers grind: My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet unguided wander to and fro; In front my skin grows loose and long; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye; For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.”

• Who on what?

Safety Slide

Michaelangelo, on his experience painting the Sistene Chapel

14. What was it initially called, and why the name change?

• The long jump event at the Olympics used to be called something else prior to the 1950s, when a certain change was made to the rules of the event.

• The earlier name was somewhat synonymous with ‘long jump’, but had to be changed, due to reasons pertaining to ‘political correctness’.

• What was the earlier name? • What change had to be made and why?

Safety Slide

It was initially called the “Broad Jump”, until women were allowed to participate.

15. What is the two word term?• This Financial Year’s bugdet introduced a levy on the income

accruing to a foreign e-commerce company outside of India. ‘XY’ or 'equalisation levy' as it's called in India, is expected to impact the bottomlines of giants like ‘X’, that make money solely through their online presence, even if they don’t have a brick and mortar presence in the country of levy.

• Their revenue is mostly routed to a tax haven country. This tax will help bring the said companies under the tax radar in India. If you're a business owner, especially running a small business or an online start up, and you conduct advertising and marketing promotions online, if you use ‘X’, the ______ ___ will probably impact you.

Safety Slide

Google Tax(Will accept Facebook Tax also)

16. Possible origins behind what?• Depending on who you ask, there are many stories behind

its origin. It's the number of active chemicals in ‘X’. It's teatime in _______. It has something to do with Hitler's birthday. It's those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.

• ___ is said to have started somewhere in California in the late '70s. It started as the police code for ‘X’, and some even say it was the provision under which ‘X’ as a crime was charged, but others dismiss it as urban legend.

• What am I talking about? What is ‘X’ and what is the story?

Safety Slide

X – Marijuana, and the reference being “420”.The blank is Amsterdam.

17. What was the event, and what ‘first’ did this (an excerpt of) create?

• O Sport, you are Honour! The laurels you bestow have no value unless they have been won in absolute fairness and with perfect impartiality. He who, with some shameful trick, manages to deceive his fellow competitors feels guilt to his very core and lives in fear of the ignominious epithet which shall forever be attached to his name should his trickery be discovered.

Safety Slide

The first Olympic Gold in Poetry.

• Yes, it was an event back then. The poetic theme given was the Olympic sport itself!

18. Who/what are ‘X’ and ‘Y’?

• While the monument built for X is located on the left of the Hyderabad-Gandipet road, the structure having Y’s name attached to it is on the right.

• Both X and Y were buried in the royal cemetery of the Qutub Shahi kings.

• The monument for X was renowned for having ingenuous cross ventilation, if that helps.

Structure having ‘Y’s name attached to it:

Safety Slide

X – Taramati (Baradari)Y – Premamati (Masjid)

Round 2

19. What is the expression?• The expression is used after an action with which the listener might be

displeased. It is also used while refuting an argument, or disproving somebody, and as a general expression that establishes that you have beaten somebody.

• The expression originated from World War I, something called a Stokes gun fired mortars resembling _____ with a stick in them, ostensibly resembling a/an _____ on a stick.

• In the movie Rio Bravo (1959), a guy tosses a hand grenade (ostensibly resembling ______) and says “__________________?“

• However, the most famous usage of the term came in 1997 in ‘X’, when the titular character uses it in a classical example of one-upmanship.

• The expression also received some attention in 1999, when Lance Armstrong used it as he crossed the finish line to his first Tour de France victory.

• What is the good expression?

21. Why did the song in question become famous?

• The nottuswara compositions (from "note swaras") are a set of 39 compositions in Carnatic classical music by Muthuswami Dikshitar.

• They are all composed with Sanskrit lyrics in the Western C major scale, whose pitch intervals correspond to that of the Shankarabharana raga in Carnatic music, or the Bilaval scale of Hindustani music.

• The compositions are not in Shankarabharana proper, being based on simple western melodies and devoid of the ornamentation (gamaka) that is characteristic of Carnatic music. On the other hand, the lyrics (sahitya) of these compositions are entirely Indian and traditional.

21. Continued

• Out of the 39 Nottuswaras, there was one in particular, ‘Santatam Paahimam’ that gained a huge amount of fame, for a certain reason.

• What is the melody based on? • Why did it become so famous in the early 19th

century?

22. How have their names (‘X’ and ‘Y’) been immortalized in the world of business?

22. Continued• The _______ of 2002, also known as the "Public Company

Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act" and more commonly “SOX”, is a United States federal law that set new or expanded requirements for all U.S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms.

• The bill, which contains eleven sections, was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals, most notably Enron.

• It was sponsored by Paul ‘X’ and Michael ‘Y’, whose names were appended to the bill, which is now sine qua non in the world of business.

23. What are these, and what comes next?

• 2011- "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality“

• 2012- "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary“

• 2013- "master of the contemporary short story“• 2014- "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to

suffering and courage in our time“• 2015- "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to

suffering and courage in our time“• 2016 – ‘X’

24. What was inspired by Langley?• Canadian musician Hans Ferber had this to say on the Langley

Music Project a music album that received a fair am• “I knew virtually nothing about conventional music education,

and didn't know how to teach singing. Above all, I knew nothing of what their was supposed to be like. But the kids had a grasp of what they liked: emotion, drama, and making music as a group. Whether the results were good, bad, in tune or out was no big deal -- they had élan. This was not the way music was traditionally taught. But then I never liked conventional 'children's music,' which is condescending and ignores the reality of children's lives, which can be dark and scary. These children hated 'cute.' They cherished songs that evoked loneliness and sadness.”

Continued.

• The Langley Music Project records were discovered in 2000 and attracted a huge amount of critical acclaim.

• What did Langley inspire in the worlds of Hollywood, and later on, Broadway?

25. Which filmstar’s filmography started thus…

…and ended thus, thanks to another filmstar’s persuasion? Put funda.

26. • The steep nature of Xs resemble a hill near Ladysmith, South Africa, that was

the scene of the Battle of X in January 1900 during the Second Boer War. It has now come to refer to terraces at sports stadia across the world, the most famous being at Y.

• There is much debate about what type of stand constitutes a ‘X’. The size and location of the stand in the stadium varies; most are located behind the goal and are occupied by its club's most vocal supporters. It is usually a single-tiered stand and is traditionally terraced.

• In England, safety regulations brought into effect after the 1989 Hillsborough disaster required many to be made all-seated. A X is not necessarily the largest stand in the stadium and does not have to have a particularly large capacity; for example, Chesterfield's former stadium, Saltergate, had a X with a capacity of only a few thousand.

• What are ‘X’s, ‘Y’ being the most famous ‘X’?

27. What was unique about the Stem Bar?

• USS New York is the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. New York has a crew of 360 and can carry up to 700 Marines. It was commissioned in 2002 and constructed between 2005 and 2008.

• However, the ship rose to prominence thanks to the way its ‘stem bar’, a part of the ship was constructed, after the mayor of NYC, George E. Pataki, wrote to the Secretary of the Navy and wanted something to be done ‘in memoriam’.

• What is unique about the way New York’s stem bar was constructed?

28. Why did DATSON become DATSUN?

• In 1931, Dat Motorcar Co. chose to name its new small car "Datson", a name which indicated the new car's smaller size when compared to the DAT's larger vehicle already in production.

• When Nissan took control of DAT in 1934, the name "Datson" was changed to "Datsun", because "son" also means "loss" in the local language.

• What was the other reason given for changing the name of the brand from DATSON to DATSUN?

29. What is the first recorded instance of?

• The Falun Mine is a copper (now defunct) mine in Sweden. It has supplied around 2/3rd’s of Europe’s copper needs and has helped fund many of Sweden’s wars.

• There are no official records as to when mining first began here. Limited evidence found by archaeologists has indicated that mining began sometime in the 10th century.

• A 12th century ‘document’ show that the mine was ‘jointly’ owned by the Swedish King and the Bishop of Vasteras. What was the claim to fame of this mine, something which was amongst the first recorded instances?

30. What do “Mac” and “P” stand for?

• Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, composer, rapper and writer who is one award away from a ‘MacPEGOT’.

• If EGOT stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, what do the ‘Mac’ and ‘P’ symbolize?

31. Who is X?

• NRL Referee Sean Hampstead is regularly nicknamed ‘X’ in nationally broadcast commentary by Australian television/radio personality Ray Warren as a result of his similar appearance to X.

• The former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is also often mocked in his own country for his facial resemblance to ‘X’.

• Who is X, who was also seen giving comic relief during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony?

32. Who portraying whom in this 2001 film?

33. Why did Caterpillar become Butterfly?

• Kendrick Lamar's album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' became very popular in 2015. Not many know that Lamar almost ended up naming the album 'To Pimp a Caterpillar', before he went with the eventual title.

• Why did he want to call it Caterpillar instead of Butterfly?

34. Why did Rishi Kapoor initially refuse?

• In an interview to Doordarshan, Rishi Kapoor recounted that he was away on shooting when Manmohan Desai called him (over a very bad line) to offer him a role in “Amar Akbar Anthony”. Rishi Kapoor misunderstood the offer and initially refused.

• Why?

35. Who was ‘X’, and what is ‘Y’? • Lord X of the Madras Presidency is said to have,

sometime in the 1800s, passed a law which provided that all land without title deeds would automatically pass to the crown. This resulted in a huge amount of fallow, unproductive and unclaimed land passing to the government.

• These kinds of land then became referred to as X lands. The word X then was corrupted to Y in Madras Tamil (and Telugu as well, I’m told) and is now used as slang to refer to anyone who is jobless, who is a nobody, or as VennuMallesh so eloquently put it, a "waste fellow".

• Give me X and Y.

36. What offering from the DS Group, introduced in 1983 would you be buying if you were a member of this club?

End of Round 2

• Answers

19. What is the expression?• The expression is used after an action with which the listener might be

displeased. It is also used while refuting an argument, or disproving somebody, and as a general expression that establishes that you have beaten somebody.

• The expression originated from World War I, something called a Stokes gun fired mortars resembling _____ with a stick in them, ostensibly resembling a/an _____ on a stick.

• In the movie Rio Bravo (1959), a guy tosses a hand grenade (ostensibly resembling ______) and says “__________________?“

• However, the most famous usage of the term came in 1997 in ‘X’, when the titular character uses it in a classical example of one-upmanship.

• The expression also received some attention in 1999, when Lance Armstrong used it as he crossed the finish line to his first Tour de France victory.

• What is the good expression?

Safety Slide

How do you like ‘em Apples?, the movie being Good Will Hunting.

21. Why did the song in question become famous?

• The nottuswara compositions (from "note swaras") are a set of 39 compositions in Carnatic classical music by Muthuswami Dikshitar.

• They are all composed with Sanskrit lyrics in the Western C major scale, whose pitch intervals correspond to that of the Shankarabharana raga in Carnatic music, or the Bilaval scale of Hindustani music.

• Technically, the compositions are not in Shankarabharana proper, being based on simple western melodies and devoid of the ornamentation (gamaka) that is characteristic of Carnatic music.

On the other hand, the lyrics (sahitya) of these compositions are entirely Indian and consistent with the rest of the stotra-literature, or other songs addressed to similar deities.

21. Continued

• Out of the 39 Nottuswaras, there was one in particular, ‘Santatam Paahimam’ that gained a huge amount of fame, for a certain reason.

• What is the melody based on? • Why did it become so famous in the early 19th

century?

Safety Slide

The tune was inspired by God Save the Queen.

• With the advent of company rule in India, the tune became very popular with the soldiers in the south, as they were used to hearing the national anthem.

22. How have their names (‘X’ and ‘Y’) been immortalized in the world of business?

22. Continued• The _______ of 2002, also known as the "Public Company

Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act" and more commonly “SOX”, is a United States federal law that set new or expanded requirements for all U.S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms.

• The bill, which contains eleven sections, was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals, most notably Enron.

• It was sponsored by Paul ‘X’ and Michael ‘Y’, whose names were appended to the bill, which is now sine qua non in the world of business.

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The Sarbanes – Oxley Act.

23. What are these, and what comes next?

• 2011- "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality“

• 2012- "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary“

• 2013- "master of the contemporary short story“• 2014- "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to

suffering and courage in our time“• 2015- "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to

suffering and courage in our time“• 2016 – ‘X’

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Literature Nobel citations, Bob Dylan

"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

24. What was inspired by Langley?• Canadian musician Hans Ferber had this to say on the Langley Music Project a

music album that received a fair am• “I knew virtually nothing about conventional music education, and didn't

know how to teach singing. Above all, I knew nothing of what their was supposed to be like. But the kids had a grasp of what they liked: emotion, drama, and making music as a group. Whether the results were good, bad, in tune or out was no big deal -- they had élan. This was not the way music was traditionally taught. But then I never liked conventional 'children's music,' which is condescending and ignores the reality of children's lives, which can be dark and scary. These children hated 'cute.' They cherished songs that evoked loneliness and sadness.”

• The Langley Music Project records were discovered in 2000 and attracted a huge amount of critical acclaim.

• What did Langley inspire in the worlds of Hollywood, and later on, Broadway?

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Jack Black’s School of Rock (2003)

25. Which filmstar’s filmography started thus…

…and ended thus, thanks to the persuasion of another filmstar?

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Jayalalithaa, who joined politics after being convinced by M.G. Ramachandran

26. What is the word ‘X’, and what is its most famous example?

• The steep nature of Xs resemble a hill near Ladysmith, South Africa, that was the scene of the Battle of X in January 1900 during the Second Boer War. It has now come to refer to terraces at sports stadia across the world, the most famous being at Y.

• There is much debate about what type of stand constitutes a ‘X’. The size and location of the stand in the stadium varies; most are located behind the goal and are occupied by its club's most vocal supporters. It is usually a single-tiered stand and is traditionally terraced.

• In England, safety regulations brought into effect after the 1989 Hillsborough disaster required many to be made all-seated. A X is not necessarily the largest stand in the stadium and does not have to have a particularly large capacity; for example, Chesterfield's former stadium, Saltergate, had a X with a capacity of only a few thousand.

• What are ‘X’s, ‘Y’ being the most famous ‘X’?

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X – (Spion) Kop,Y – Anfield Park, Liverpool

27. What is so unique to the stem bar?

• USS New York is the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. New York has a crew of 360 and can carry up to 700 Marines. It was commissioned in 2002 and constructed between 2005 and 2008.

• However, the ship rose to prominence thanks to the way its ‘stem bar’, a part of the ship was constructed, after the mayor of NYC, George E. Pataki, wrote to the Secretary of the Navy and wanted something to be done ‘in memoriam’.

• What is unique about the way New York’s stem bar was constructed?

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The stem bar was constructed with salvaged steel from ground zero.

(Will accept anything WTC related)

28. Why did DATSON become DATSUN?

• In 1931, Dat Motorcar Co. chose to name its new small car "Datson", a name which indicated the new car's smaller size when compared to the DAT's larger vehicle already in production.

• When Nissan took control of DAT in 1934, the name "Datson" was changed to "Datsun", because "son" also means "loss" in the local language.

• What was the other reason given for changing the name of the brand from DATSON to DATSUN?

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The name was changed to honour the sun depicted in Japan’s national flag.

29. What is the first recorded instance of?

• The Falun Mine is a copper (now defunct) mine in Sweden. It has supplied around 2/3rd’s of Europe’s copper needs and has helped fund many of Sweden’s wars.

• There are no official records as to when mining first began here. Limited evidence found by archaeologists has indicated that mining began sometime in the 10th century.

• A 12th century ‘document’ show that the mine was ‘jointly’ owned by the Swedish King and the Bishop of Vasteras. What was the claim to fame of this mine, something which was amongst the first recorded instances?

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The world’s first Joint Stock Company, and the document in question is the first recorded Share Certificate.

(Just shares will do)

30. What do “Mac” and “P” stand for?

• Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, composer, rapper and writer who is one award away from a ‘MacPEGOT’.

• If EGOT stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, what do the ‘Mac’ and ‘P’ symbolize?

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The MacArthur Genius Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

31. Who is X?

• NRL Referee Sean Hampstead is regularly nicknamed ‘X’ in nationally broadcast commentary by Australian television/radio personality Ray Warren as a result of his similar appearance to X.

• The former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is also often mocked in his own country for his facial resemblance to ‘X’.

• Who is X, who was also seen giving comic relief during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony?

His resemblance to Rowan Atkinson/ nickname being Mr. Bean.

32. Who portraying whom in this 2001 film?

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James Franco as James Dean

33. Why did Caterpillar become Butterfly?

• Kendrick Lamar's album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' became very popular in 2015. Not many know that Lamar almost ended up naming the album 'To Pimp a Caterpillar', before he went with the eventual title.

• Why did he want to call it Caterpillar instead of Butterfly?

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“To pimp a caterpillar” shortened to “2pac”

34. Why did Rishi Kapoor initially refuse the role?

• In an interview to Doordarshan, Rishi Kapoor recounted that he was away on shooting when Manmohan Desai called him (over a very bad line) to offer him a role in “Amar Akbar Anthony”. Rishi Kapoor misunderstood the offer and initially refused.

• Why?

He thought this had something to do with Mughal-e-Azam.

• He thought he was being called to play the role of Emperor Akbar, and didn't want to be compared to Prithviraj Kapoor who'd already essayed that role previously, so he refused.

• (Funda will do.)

35. Who is ‘X’, what is ‘Y’?• Lord X of the Madras Presidency is said to have, sometime

in the 1800s, passed a law which provided that all land without title deeds would automatically pass to the crown. This resulted in a huge amount of fallow, unproductive and unclaimed land passing to the government.

• These kinds of land then became referred to as X lands. The word X is then said to have become corrupted to Y in Madras Tamil (and Telugu as well, I’m told), and is now used as slang to refer to anyone who is jobless, who is a nobody, or as VennuMallesh so eloquently put it, a "waste fellow".

• Give me X and Y.

X is Lord Pembroke, Y is said to be Poramboke.

36. What offering from the DS Group, introduced in 1983 would you be buying if you were a member of this club?

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R – Rajnigandha Paan Masala

Connect

• Over five slides, I’m looking for two words, that connect the images/clues on the slides.

• One is the name of a person, and the other a place. And they’ve come to be known as a single entity.

• I will be looking for “Begumpet, Hyderabad” and not just “Hyderabad”.

+5/-2.5

+4/-2

+3/-1.5

+2/-1

+1/0

Answer

• Roads in Lutyens, Delhi.