2. Rules
● +15/-10 on pounce
● +10/0 on bounce
● Infinite bounce
● Any Lame-ass puns get instant -42
3. Q1
According to the description on the site:
The X is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek
inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the
weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library.
And the founder :
“The desire produced in most visitors to the site, as it was for Borges’s librarians, is
to discover what they do not already know – to find the lost gospels, or the cures of
diseases, or the true story of one’s own death. All of it is contained on one of the
library’s pages – and the fact that one can find anything one looks for only makes it
more frustrating. What we want is to find what we don’t know how to look for.”
What is the name of the site? What is the funda behind it?
4.
5. LibraryofBabel.info
If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000
characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it
would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that
ever could be
6. Q2
Wittily credited to having put the first “2 feet” on top of a certain something,this
was done to avoid the impression that it was nothing more than a rounded
estimate, the value in question being 29000.
What is being talked about here?
9. Q3
Although both are abbreviations, the two get mixed up very often, with the rampant
misuse of X forcing some dictionaries to include the definition of Y in X as well
While X is pronounceable as a word, Y isn’t.
What is X and Y?
12. Q4
Evocative of British stoicism, the "stiff upper lip", self-discipline, fortitude, and
remaining calm in adversity, which popular culture rendered into a British character
trait, this was intended as a morale booster during the WW.
Although 2.45 million were produced, it was hardly ever displayed in public.
The item in question has spawned off innumerable parodies after its rediscovery in
2000, appearing on every concievable item, the original message trivialised beyond
measure.
ID
15. Q5
DNA expression is controlled by other factors, which determine whether a gene is
turned on or off, known as epignetics.In girls, one X chromosome is deactivated in
each cell , done epigenetically very early in fetal development.
This creates a “striped” pattern in women’s bodies, where some cells have X from
the father, and some from the mother.
While these stripes are invisible in humans, in species where the X chromosome is
linked to visible characteristics, the pattern is clearly visible.
This is also the reason why Z is always female
ID Z
18. Q5
While the name may be slightly humorous and off-putting to native english
speakers, it was largely derived from the notion of what it should be supplying to
the drinker: the nutrients lost when sweating. The first part of the name however
has no meaning; it was chosen for its light, happy sound.
This item in turn is slated to be the first commercial product to be advertised on the
moon, the "Lunar Dream" capsule will contain titanium plates engraved with
messages submitted by people around the world, as well as a serving of the
powdered item in question.The vision calls for future lunar explorers to pop open
the can and enjoy a drink.
ID this Item.
21. Q7
The term X originates from a French word meaning “throat” or “gullet”.
In architecture, X is formed Y , with a spout designed to carry from the roof and
away from the building, thus preventing the rainwater from eroding the walls.
X and Y are most commonly found in Gothic architecture, carved by the artists of
the12th and 13th centuries as “preachers in stone”, portraying the animals and
beats in folklore of the time.
When not constructed as a waterspout, and only used for artistic purposes, Y is the
term that is used. However X is commonly used to refer to the fantastical beasts
used as a waterspout or not.
What is X and Y?
24. Q8
The following video is an Ad by Desigual Jeans.
Identify the dance form shown in the video, which is a fusion of two dance forms
and the name is a portmanteau of the same.
27. Q10
In the years after the French Revolution,the name "Grave" was considered politically
incorrect as it resembled the aristocratic German title of the Graf, an alternative
name for the title of Count that was inconsistent with the new French Republic
notion of equality.
Now the Grave ,(now known as Y), was a thousand times more massive than the
initially defined base X. Grave being the more practical unit, was defined as the new
base unit, and owing to the political climate of the time, a modification was done to
the name X to accommodate Grave, and it became Y.
What anomaly did this lead to?
28.
29. The kilogram is the only SI base unit that has an SI
prefix as part of its unit name
30. Q11
Known as the Werther effect after Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther,
this is said to be contagious and spreads especially fast if there is widespread media
coverage.
This has led to some countries imposing restrictions on certain types of stories,
keeping the exact word out of the headlines, as well as the details of the deed.
A 2017 Netflix series created a similar furore earlier this year as there was expected
to be a spike in the people affected by this. A current challenge in circulation is also
said to have a large number of its supposed cases a direct result of this effect.
What is the effect? Exact two-word term for points.
33. Q12
"We thought that someone had just written really brilliant parodies of his prose style,"
Cantrell says."But when they kept coming, day after day, and he started getting into these
long dialogs with people, it became obvious that it really was him," Tom grumbles.
"How did he square that with being a Luddite?"
Cantrell: "He said that he’d always thought of computers as a force that alienated and
atomized society."
Tom: "But as the result of being the number one _________suspect for a while, he’d been
forcibly made aware of the Internet, which changed computers by connecting them.""Oh,
my god!" Randy says."And he’d been mulling over the Internet while he was doing
whatever Andrew Loeb does," Tom continues.
Randy: "Squatting naked in icy mountain streams strangling muskrats with his bare
hands."
34. This is an extract from the Novel Cryptonomicon.
Give the person being referenced here. The name/moniker would do.
37. Q13
While the puzzle itself was invented by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in
1883, a supposed story of the origins of X is an Indian temple in Kashi Vishwanath
which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it, surrounded by 64
golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy,
have been moving these disks in accordance with the immutable rules of Brahma
since that time. According to the legend, when the last move is completed, the world
will end.
What is this puzzle familiar to engineers called?
40. Q14
In modern English X refers to the fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or a
baited hook from a moving boat.
In the usenet of the 90s, the X was an inside joke by veteran users, presenting
questions or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond
to them earnestly.
While the origins of the term may have positive connotations, the modern
understanding of the term may have more in common with the Old Norse word
which is often mistaken as the origin for X.
What is X?
43. Q15
X was created by the London-based art collective known as Random International.
"The work was created to heighten awareness of people's own presence in space, X
physically represents personal space and casts a light on the different behaviours
this space elicits."
X has been a widely popular installation at both the Barbican in London and at the
MoMA in New York City. It's popularity attracted lines out the door at that reached
up to 5 hours in visitor waiting time
The installation is such that the viewer senses the phenomenon through sounds
and the sense of moisture in the air without actually being confronted by it and
having to deal with the conventional hassles experiencing this in nature would
entail.
Name the installation.
46. Q16
The band’s producer said that with the lead’s vocals, the song X sounded like
“rasping blues, like he’s smoked 100 cigarettes”, the band being known for their
heavy drug use and backstage antics.
X, was a subtle hat tip to their predecessors, The Beatles, sharing the name with
George Harrison’s first post-Beatles album released in 1968.
"A X can be anything," the lead told Rolling Stone in a 1996 article titled, "Ruling
Asses." "It's just a beautiful word. It's like looking for that bus ticket, and you're
trying to fucking find it, that bastard, and you finally find it and you pull it out,
'Fucking mega, that is me X.'"
Anyway, here’s the question: What is the song X?
49. Q17
● Thrift Shop
● Die Young
● Don’t You Worry Child
● Gentleman
● Call Me Maybe
● Come and Get it
● We Can’t Stop
● Blurred Lines
● Just Dance
● Wake me up
● Young and Beautiful
The following is an exhaustive list of songs a certain
singer performed with a music collective, known for its
unconventional approach to arranging music.
While being one of the founding members of said
collective,the singer went on to have a separate channel
later.
ID the singer and the music collective
52. Q18
X is the Perso-Arabic name for Sri Lanka. The fairy tale “Three princes of X” based
upon the life of the Persian king Bahram V
The story follows the exploits of three princes who by “accident and sagacity”, dicern
the nature of a lost camel. The english word Y which has X as a sub part of the
name, is said to originate from this tale.
The accidential nature of the adventures of the three princes lends itself to the
etymology of the word in question Y
ID Y
