THE SIMPLE QUIZ

@PrasenjeetSaha

RULES:o 21 questions.o +1 on each correct answer.o Top 6 teams to go to finals.o *Ed questions in case of a tie.o Quizmaster’s verdict is supreme.

*1. ID this little girl. This is X, one of the daughters of the neighbours of the writer Y.

Y became close friends with the family and their children, particularly X.

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X: Alice LiddellY: Lewis Carroll

2. Notorious guy. X was born into a poor family of cattle grazers and grew up admiring the poacher Sevia Gounder and the notorious outlaw Malayur Mammattiyan. He was said to have poached his first elephant at age 14 and committed his first murder at 17. At 18 he joined a gang of poachers and expanded their operations to include other criminal activities.

Most of X’s victims were police, forest officials, and locals whom he suspected of being informers. He was wanted for killing approximately 184 people, about half of whom were police officers, including senior police and forest officials.

ID X.

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Veerappan

3. Map of?

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Land of Oz

4. X and Y?The final match took place on 26 May, with India facing the home team of the Netherlands. The Indian team's better players Feroze Khan, Ali Shaukat and Kher Singh were on the sick list and X himself was ill. However, even with a skeletal side, India managed to defeat the hosts 3-0 (with Singh scoring 2), and the Indian team won Y. Keeper Richard Allen created a unique record of not conceding a single goal. X was the top scorer of the tournament by a large margin, scoring 14 goals in 5 matches.

THE TEAM:•Richard Allen•X•Maurice Gateley•William Goodsir-Cullen•Leslie Hammond•Feroze Khan•George Marthins•Rex Norris•Broome Pinniger•Michael Rocque•Frederic Seaman•Ali Shaukat•Jaipal Singh•Santosh Manglani•Kher Singh Gill

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X: Dhyan ChandY: Olympics gold (first ever)

*5. Anything is possible. Was filmed in a single uninterrupted take.

The actor recites a monologue as he transitions through various scenes, all without pausing his monologue or breaking eye-contact with the camera for more than a moment.

Minimal computer-generated imagery (CGI) was used, consisting of overlaying a separately shot artificial hand during the segment where diamonds flow from the actor's palm and the product rises through the pile of diamonds with a separately filmed shot of the hand.

The remaining effects were practical and achieved on-set, including a crane lifting the bathroom set from above, a crew member dropping a pre-formed shirt over the actor's head from above, and a cart that carried him from the boat set onto the back of a horse.

What am I talking about?

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Old Spice ad ‘Smell like a Man, Man’

6. What am I talking about? There are 7 types of a certain object in “X”: I, J, L, O, S, T & Z.

•All of these are capable of single and double clears.

•I, J, and L are able to clear triples.

•Only the I has the capacity to clear four lines simultaneously, and this is referred to as a “X".

•In most recent implementations, certain situations allow T, S, and Z to 'snap' into tight spots and clear triples.

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Tetris

*7. What is X? As a child, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Shah of Lugash: the X, the largest diamond in the world. This huge gem has an unusual flaw: looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a Y; thus its name “X”.

When Dala is a young woman, rebels seize power in Lugash and then demand possession of the jewel, but the exiled princess refuses to hand it over.

What is X?

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The Pink Panther

8. What are these and X?1. Atala

2. Vitala

3. Sutala

4. Rasaataala

5. Talatala

6. Mahaatala

7. X

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X: PaatalaThe 7 under-world realms in Hindu Mythology

9. Where have you seen him? Alfred E. Neuman, distinguished by jug ears, a missing front tooth, and one eye lower than the other has graced the cover of almost all issues of X.

His face is rarely seen in profile; he has virtually always been shown in full frontal view, directly from behind, or in silhouette.

Over the decades, Neuman has frequently been referenced in outside media, and his face has often appeared in political cartoons as a shorthand for unquestioning stupidity.

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M.A.D. magazine

*10. What happens when I mix?

?

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Rowdyruff Boys

11. The inspiration behind. What being is described in the artist’s own poem?

“I was walking along the road with two friendsthe sun was settingsuddenly the sky turned blood redI paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fencethere was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the citymy friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxietyand I sensed an infinite X passing through nature.”

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The Scream

12. A household name. What came into being, when in 1980 Dr. Karsanbhai Patel a lab technician at the Geology and Mining Department of the Gujarat Government manufactured a new phosphate free synthetic detergent powder, and started selling it locally?

He would bicycle through the neighbourhoods selling handmade packets of his product door to door which soon became an instant success owing to its word-of-mouth publicity among satisfied housewives and its famous jingles.

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Nirma detergent powder

13. What is happening here?

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Star Wars opening credits“A long time ago in a galaxy far away…”

14. What is this electronic device?•Voice Input Child Identicant

•Superhuman strength and speed.

•Runs on atomic power.

•An access panel at the back.

•An electric socket in the right side.

•A RS-232 serial port in the left side.

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‘Vicky’ from ‘Small Wonder’

15. Connect

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

16. Which Hindi movie? "The Last Leaf" is a short story by O. Henry published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. Set in Greenwich Village, it depicts characters and themes typical of O. Henry's works.

Its is listed as the inspiration behind the Bollywood movie X.

ID X.

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Lootera

*17. Word. The word X or its popular short-form “Y” is actually a corruption of the Scandinavian svagga, meaning "to rock unsteadily or lurch" and entered the English language in the 13th or 14th century, with its earliest print sighting dating to 1303. Over time its meaning evolved into that of "hanging loosely or heavily," and by 1794 picked up the additional meanings of "booty or plunder" and "a hanging wreath or garland.”

Its first written use is in Shakespeare’s 1596 play A Midsummer Night’s Dream! The quote of the original usage is as follows from character, Puck: “What hempen homespuns have we ‘X’ing here?”

Gimme Y!

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#swag

18. A modern belief. The X belief system is essentially a modernized form of Taoism purged of all of its metaphysical and medical doctrines.

X advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the flow", "being cool headed", and "taking it easy" in the face of life's difficulties, believing that this is the only way to live in harmony with our inner nature and the challenges of interacting with other people.

It also aims to assuage feelings of inadequacy that arise in societies which place a heavy emphasis on achievement and personal fortune.

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The logo of X

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Dudeism, inspired by "The Dude" of The Great Lebowski

19. Old print ad of?

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Britannia biscuits

20. Connect

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How I Met Your Mother

*21. What was introduced? The X was first introduced to popular culture as part of a promotion by New York radio station WMCA beginning in 1962. Listeners who answered their phone "WMCA Good Guys!" were rewarded with a "WMCA good guys" sweatshirt that incorporated a X into its design. Thousands of these sweatshirts were given away and X caught on.

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