A (pretty) decent quiz

Written Round - I
• Unusual medical conditions with names inspired by fictional characters
• +5 for each correct answer
• +10 if all five answers correct

 “If you have (1) syndrome, you perceive your body parts and objects around you as being larger or
smaller than they actually are—more in a "seeing everything through a funhouse mirror" way. Your
toes might appear to be several feet long. Your hand might look enormous. The door to the
bathroom could shrink until it seems miles away. To make matters worse, your muddled perception
may also extend to things like sounds and the passing of time.”

 “ (2) syndrome is a condition in which someone ingests enough hair that it forms a dense hairball
— known as “trichobezoar” — in their stomach that eventually spawns a long rope of hair that trails
into the victim’s intestines. The intestinal hair rope can be several feet long.”

 “(3) syndrome sufferers slip into long periods of slumber that last weeks or even months at a time.
Also called Kleine-Levin Syndrome, the condition almost exclusively affects teenage boys.”

 “ (4) syndrome, also know as "alien hand syndrome," produces the feeling that your hand is under
the control of someone else. Often the affected hand will be disobedient, unbuttoning a shirt that
was just buttoned by the normal hand or extinguishing a cigar that was just lit.”

 “ (5) syndrome is the condition describing a child raised in the wild. Because of increasing economic
turmoil, children are being left in the care of pack animals. Many children have been discovered
after living in the wild in the care of dogs. These children will often act more like dogs than humans,
even to the point of barking to indicate what they want. Oddly enough, while there have been
many documented cases of feral children raised by wild animals, there have been just as many
hoaxes.“

 (1) – Alice in Wonderland

Clockwise Round
• +10 / 0 on bounce
• +15 / -10 on pounce

1.
 Homosexual interpretations have been part of the academic study of the X franchise at least since
psychiatrist Fredric Wertham asserted in his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent that “ X stories are
psychologically homosexual".
 Will Brooker argues in X Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon, that a queer reading of X is a valid
interpretation, and that homosexual readers would naturally find themselves drawn to the lifestyle
depicted within, whether the character of ___________ himself is explicitly homosexual or not. Writing for
The Guardian, Brooker expanded on this theme, stating that X:
“can never be tied down to any one identity. X has been a ridiculous boy-scout, a fearsome vigilante, a
protective father, a loner, a clown. X is a myth and a mosaic, an icon who catches the light at different
angles at different times, and takes multiple forms. But gayness – from high camp to intense homoeroticism
– is an important aspect of that icon...The constant need to insist on X's heterosexuality always, unwittingly,
reminds us of the campy incarnations as it tries to repress them; and the harder the push towards
"darkness," the more the "rainbow X" sneaks through the gaps.”

2.
 Identify the chap performing
the title role in Valmiki
Pratibha (1881).

3.
 Rosebud, Citizen Kane
 The suitcase, Pulp Fiction
 The Maltese Falcon, The Maltese Falcon
 The Ark of the Covenant, Raiders of the Lost Ark
 The One Ring, Lord of the Rings
 Project Genesis, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
 The Holy Grail, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 R2D2 / The Death Star plans, Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope

 They are all “MacGuffin”s, plot devices in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator
that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.

4.
 Dinkan is a fictional anthropomorphic superhero mouse who appear in an eponymous Malayalam
comic story series in children's magazine Balamangalam. Modern day secular keralites use Dinkan to
mock organized religion and religious intolerance.
 As a result, Dinkoism has emerged as a parody religion on social networks organized by Independent
social welfare groups in Kerala, India. This religion celebrates Dinkan as their God in an attempt to
bring awareness of the fallacies and practices of traditional religions.
 Dinkoists believe in ‘X Theory' according to which the whole universe was created from ‘X' of Lord
Dinkan. (Image in next slide)

5.
 “X" is a single by Y, released in 1987. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. The song was
released as the first single from his debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody (1987). The song was a
worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed atop the
chart for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25
countries, including the United States and West Germany. The song hit #1 in the U.S. in March 1988 after
it was played by resident DJ, Larry Levan, at the Paradise Garage in 1987.
 In 2008, Y won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Act Ever with the song, as a result of collective
online voting from thousands of people. Why?

 X – Never Gonna Give You Up
 Y – Rick Astley

6.
 The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by
Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists”. It was first exhibited in
1992 in the first of a series of YBA shows at the Saatchi Gallery, then at its premises in St John's Wood,
north London. The British tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a story titled "£50,000 for ____ without chips."
 Its technical specifications are: “XY, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution, 213 x 518 x 213 cm."
 The New York Times in 2007 gave the following description of the artwork:
“Mr. Hirst often aims to fry the mind (and misses more than he hits), but he does so by setting up direct,
often visceral experiences, of which the Y remains the most outstanding.
In keeping with the piece's title, the Y is simultaneously life and death incarnate in a way you don't quite
grasp until you see it, suspended and silent. It gives the innately demonic urge to live a demonic, deathlike
form.”

7.
 The X principle states that in a given sample, there may be entities belonging to extremes, but there will
always be an entity belonging to the average. Or in other words, in a sample, there will always be a U-
shaped distribution. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the X effect.
 The X principle is derived from a children's story in which the character X after testing three examples of
two items, determines that one of them is always too much in one extreme (too hot or too large), one is
too much in the opposite extreme (too cold or too small), and one is "just right".
 The X principle is applied across many disciplines, particularly developmental psychology, biology,
economics and engineering.

8.
 In the military, the terms X and Y are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to
be initiated. They designate the day and hour of the operation when the day and hour have not yet been
determined, or where secrecy is essential.
 The earliest use of these terms by the United States Army that the U.S. Army Center of Military History has
been able to find was during World War I. In Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary
Forces, dated 7 September 1918: "The First Army will attack at Y on X with the object of forcing the
evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient."

 X: D – Day
 Y: H - Hour

9.
 A X is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main
purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of “____ the ___", which means "to
provide one's livelihood".
 Some historical usages of the term –
In 1854 Putnam’s Magazine used the term in the following sentence: “He has not carelessly dashed off his
picture, with the remark that ‘it will do for a X’”.
Lewis Carroll, in a letter to illustrator A. B. Frost in 1880, remarks that Frost should spend his advance pay
from his work on Rhyme? & Reason? lest he be forced to "do a ‘X' for some magazine" to make ends meet.
In an early-1980s Time review of a book by Andrew Greeley, the author called his novel Thy Brother's Wife
a "...putrid, puerile, prurient, pulpy X“.

10.
 The ________ were 19th-century English textile workers (or self-employed weavers who feared the end of
their trade) who protested against newly developed labour-economizing technologies, primarily between
1811 and 1816. The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the Industrial
Revolution replaced them with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work. The _______
movement culminated in a region-wide rebellion in Northwestern England that required a massive
deployment of military force to suppress.
 The term has since developed a secondary meaning: a “_______" is one opposed to industrialisation,
automation, computerisation or new technologies in general. More recently, the term Neo-_______ has
emerged to describe opposition to many forms of technology. According to a manifesto drawn up by the
Second _______ Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio), Neo-_______ is "a leaderless movement of passive
resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age."

11.
 Spencer Elden is an American street artist and a student at the Art Centre College of Design in
Pasadena, California.
 Some excerpts from his interview –
“My mum has a crazy story. When she was young, she says she had some sort of vision that her baby
was going to be everywhere.”
“It is a weird thing to get my head around, being part of such a culturally iconic image. But it’s always
been a positive thing and opened doors for me.”
“I might have one of the most famous penises in the music industry, but no one would ever know that to
look at me.” (Image in next slide)

 He is the ‘The Nirvana Baby’

12.
 The 2015 Ig Nobel prize in Literature went to Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira and Nick J. Enfield
for discovering that the word “X?” (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language — and for
not being completely sure why — in their paper titled, "Is ‘X?' a universal word? Conversational
infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items," PLOS ONE, 2013.

13.
 X and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful
Corporation is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the
American-based multinational and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of
Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the years of World War II. In the book, Black outlines the way in
which X’s technology helped facilitate Nazi genocide through generation and tabulation of Y based
upon national census data.
 Data generated by means of counting and alphabetization equipment supplied by X through its
German and other national subsidiaries was instrumental in the efforts of the German government to
concentrate and ultimately destroy ethnic Jewish populations across Europe, Black demonstrates. Black
reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith
Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of X's Y technology. In his book,
Black charges that "without X's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of Y,
whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."

 X – IBM
 Y – Punching Cards

14.
 X: Colloquial term in tennis for winning or losing a set 6–0 (the shape of the zero being reminiscent
of the round shape of a X).
 Y: Colloquial term in tennis for winning or losing a set 6–1, with the straight shape of the one
supposedly being reminiscent of the straight shape of a Y.

 X – Bagel
 Y – Breadstick

15.
 X is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and reached
peak popularity in the early 1990s. The style is typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback,
obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound". The
most commonly cited precursors to X are the Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, A.R. Kane, My
Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3 and Loop.
 The term “X” was coined in a review in Sounds of a concert by the newly formed Moose in which singer
Russell Yates read lyrics taped to the floor throughout the gig. The name was picked up by the NME, who
used it as a reference to the tendency of the bands' guitarists to stare at their feet—or their effects pedals—
while playing, seemingly deep in concentration. (Images in next slide)

16.
 On Nyotaimori, a Japanese practise, Jack Herbert says:
“Before becoming a living _____________, the person (usually a woman) is trained to lie down for hours
without moving. She or he must also be able to withstand the prolonged exposure to the cold food.
Before _______, the individual is supposed to have taken a bath using a special fragrance-free soap and
then finished off with a splash of cold water to chill the body down somewhat for the _____. In some parts
of the world, in order to comply with sanitation laws, there must be a layer of plastic or other material
between the _____ and the body of the woman or man.”

 It is the practise of serving sushi from
the naked body of a woman

17.
 In 1997, DC did a story line in which she falls into a
mystical coma, dies and eventually ascends to become a
goddess on Olympus. The cover of Wonder Woman
#126 was a fake newspaper headline announcing her
imminent death.
 This was really unfortunate because three days after the
comic came out something else happened.

 Princess Diana of Wales died in a
car accident

18.
 Bruce C. Berndt, an American mathematician said:
“Paul Erdős has passed on to us X's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate
mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, X gave himself a score of 25, J.E.
Littlewood 30, David Hilbert 80 and Y 100.”

 X – G.H. Hardy
 Y – Srinivasa Ramanujan

19.
 ______ in sport was first documented in the city-state of Sparta, during the late archaic period. The
custom of exercising _____ was associated with the practice of anointing the body with olive oil to
accentuate its beauty. It is believed to root in the religious notion that athletic excellence was an
‘aesthetical’ offering to the gods and indeed at many games it was the privilege of the winner to be
represented _____ as a votive statue offered in a temple, or even to be immortalized as a model for a
god's statue. Performing ____ certainly was also welcome as a measure to prevent foul play, which was
punished publicly on the spot by the judges with a sound lashing.
 The word gymnasium (Latin; from Greek gymnasion, being derived from Greek gymnos, meaning
“_____"), originally denoting a place for the intellectual, sensual, moral and physical education of young
men as future soldiers and citizens, is another testimony of the ______ in physical exercises.

20.
 Coma-Doof Warrior is a character portrayed by Australian musician iOTA and appears in X.
 He was a child musical prodigy brought up in a happy environment by his mother, who was a musician
herself. Then Coma and his mother were attacked. His mother was dragged away and days later someone
dropped her head in Coma's lap. ____________ found Coma clinging to the head of his mother, and took
him in.
 There are two different stories about the origin of his mask. The first story notes that Coma made a mask
from his mother's face, which he sliced from her skull himself. The second story differs, claiming that
____________ made the mask for him to "Enact ___'s revenge on the world with his mother's screaming face
on.“ (Image in next slide)

21.
 X is a “youtuber” who began livestreaming on YouTube in November 2015 showing him playing games
such as League of Legends and chess, as well as offering financial advice. Later he started a financial and
chemistry class explaining the basics of each subject. When X was arraigned in December and released
on bail, he continued streaming from his apartment. He resigned his job and is currently unemployed.

22.
 Sanjeev Sivan's 30-minute documentary "The Achtung Baby - In Search of ______" explores the lore of
pregnancy tourism: German women traveling to Dhahanu, Ladakh, in the hopes of being impregnated by
the local men, because the Brogpas claim to be something.
 Furthermore, Mona Bhan, an associate professor of anthropology, says : "Brogpas do not associate their
________ with its 'dirty and cruel' history in Germany and elsewhere, though the two cannot be
disassociated. There is also an underlying current here to reclaim a particular kind of nationalist pride and
masculinity that relies on Brogpa bodies to bolster the superiority of Indian genes."

 They claim to be the last of Aryans.

23.
 X is a character in the Dexter’s Laboratory universe. He
is described as the “Viking God of Rock n’ Roll” in the
show.
 His name is derived by modifying the name of a place
usually referenced in Norse mythology, such that it
sounds similar to the name of a popular 80s American
rock band.

24.
 “X Junction" is a nickname sometimes given to a complicated or massively intertwined road traffic
interchange that resembles a plate of X.
 The term was originally used to refer to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in
Birmingham, United Kingdom. In an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965
the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as "like a cross between a plate of X and an
unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot", with the headline above the article on the newspaper's
front page, written by sub-editor Alan Eaglesfield, reading “X Junction".
 Since then many complex interchanges around the world have acquired the nickname.

25.
 The X is a chess opening which was analysed by Giulio Polerio in his 1594 manuscript on chess,
though he did not use the term "X". In 1813, the English master Jacob Henry Sarratt effectively
standardised his English translation of the name of this opening as "the X", referring to an old
Italian manuscript that used the phrase, "il gioco siciliano“.
 The Y, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, was named after the 16th-century Spanish
priest Y de Segura, who made a systematic study of this and other openings in the 150-page book
on chess Libro del Ajedrez written in 1561. Due to the difficulty for Black to achieve equality, and
the fact that Y was at the same time as the Inquisition, a common nickname for the opening is "The
Spanish Torture".

 X – The Sicilian Defence
 Y – Ruy Lopez

26.
 Thích Quảng Đức (1897 – 1963, born Lâm Văn Túc), was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who was
known for opposing the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình
Diệm.
 Referring to one of his acts of protest, JFK said that nothing in history has generated so much emotion
around the world as it. His act increased international pressure on Diệm and led him to announce reforms
with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists.
 However, the promised reforms were not implemented, leading to a deterioration in the dispute.
Eventually, an Army coup toppled Diệm, who was assassinated on 2 November 1963. (Image in next slide)

 He is the “burning monk” whose
self immolation won the 1963
Pulitzer prize

27.
 X is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Y completed by June 1937. The painting is regarded by
many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history. Standing at
3.49 metres tall and 7.76 metres wide, the large mural shows the suffering of people, animals, and
buildings wrenched by violence and chaos.
 The painting is believed to be a response to the bombing of X, a Basque Country village in northern
Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists. Upon
completion, X was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely
acclaimed, and believed to have helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War.

 X – Guernica
 Y – Pablo Picasso

Written Round - II
• Illustrations of musicians in The Rolling Stones magazine’s list of 100 greatest artists
• +5 for each correct answer
• +10 if all ten answers correct

Anti-clockwise Round
• +10 / 0 on bounce
• +15 / -10 on pounce

28.
 For pre-ordering X, imgur user
GatorMacheteJr saved about 2,240 bottle-
caps and sent them to Y, X’s developing
studio.
 Y sent him a reply saying that since he was the
first person to do this, he would be receiving a
copy of the game on November, 2015.

 X – Fallout 4
 Y – Bethesda
 Bottle caps (Nuka Cola) are the standard
currency in the Fallout franchise

29.
 Contrary to popular belief, the English songwriter, X, didn’t have heterochromia. In fact, he received
a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye
during a fight over a girl, and doctors feared he would become blind in that eye. After a series of
operations during a four-month hospitalisation, his doctors determined that the damage could not
be fully repaired and X was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil, which
gave a false impression of a change in the iris' colour.

30.
 This is an alternate angle
of a famous image.

31.
 On their Aug 6, 2012 Google Doodle, Ryan Germick, Doodle Team Lead, posted:
“In the weeks leading up the 2012 summer games, the mantra amongst the doodlers was ‘Hooray for
sports!’ This was not just because doodling for the Olympics was a past time dating back to the ancient
history of the year 2000, but also because we had some especially fun surprises in store in the form of
interactive sports video games on the way.
Now, before the button mashing was to begin, a series of static sports-inspired doodles ran. You might
have noticed by our doodles for the likes of Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, we're a bit more geek than jock.
So, when the X landed during the middle of our javelin doodle's run, we couldn't help but to pay homage.
It was a subtle change, but fortunately many Google users noticed – including the X itself!”

 X – Mars Curiosity
Rover

32.
 According to a petition being promoted by Prof Vamsee Juluri, Prof Ramesh Rao and others a ‘small
group of X studies faculty recently asked the California Board of Education to change the History Social
Science Frameworks (Syllabus) so that the word “Y” will be removed and replaced with “X”’.
 While the X studies faculty lobby apparently want to remove all geographical references to “Y” they do
want to retain it in places where Z is being referred to. That means Z would be referred to as “Y religion”.
Here is the relevant section of the petition:
“What is even more absurd and self-contradictory in their recommendations is their suggestion (which is
one of the changes you seem to have accepted) that “Y” be removed in all references to the past, but then
used again in phrases like “ancient Y religion” – the new phrase being used to replace the term “Z.” Is this
the kind of logic and rigor that students of California, the high-tech capital of the world, are going to be
taught? Are teachers going to be expected to tell their students, ‘Ok, class, in ancient X(not ancient Y), the
people practiced the religion of ancient Y (not Z)’?”

 X = South Asia
 Y = India
 Z = Hinduism

33.
 Although X is best known as a writer of coming-of-age novels about children and adolescents and as a
champion of the downtrodden poor, it has sometimes been noted that both in his journalism and fiction
he expresses attitudes that can be interpreted as racist and xenophobic.
 In response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, X wrote in a letter to Emile de la Rue on 23rd October 1857:
“I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must
be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into
all native dialects,
‘I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of
Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honour to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my
intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to
exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable
atrocities"]’”

34.
 In Roman mythology, Jupiter (the king of the gods) lusts after a young woman named Callisto, a
nymph of Diana. Juno, Jupiter's jealous wife, transforms the beautiful Callisto into a ____. Callisto, while
in ____ form, later encounters her son Arcas. Arcas almost shoots the ____, but to avert the tragedy,
Jupiter turns them into _____ and puts them in the sky, forming X and Y. Callisto is X and her son, Arcas,
is Y.

 X – Ursa Major
 Y – Ursa Minor

35.
 The 1st Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 31, 1981 at John Wilson's living room alcove to recognize
the worst the film industry had to offer in 1980. These are the nominees for the worst director:
Robert Greenwald for Xanadu
John G. Avildsen for The Formula
Brian De Palma for Dressed to Kill
William Friedkin for Cruising
Sidney J. Furie and Richard Fleischer for The Jazz Singer
X for Y
Michael Ritchie for The Island
John Trent for Middle Age Crazy
Nancy Walker for Can't Stop the Music
Gordon Willis for Windows

 X – Stanley Kubrick
 Y – The Shining

36.
 On 1 February 1981, Australia played New Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third of
five such matches in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
With one ball of the final over remaining, New Zealand required a six to tie the match. To ensure that New
Zealand did not get the runs they needed, the Australian captain, Greg Chappell, instructed his bowler (and
younger brother), Trevor Chappell, to do something which was legal at the time, but nevertheless seen as
being against the spirit of cricketing fair play.
 After the incident, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, described it as "the most
disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket", going on to say that "it was an act of true
cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow". Even the Australian
Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, called the act "contrary to the traditions of the game.“
 As a direct result of the incident, ICC amended the Laws of Cricket stating they were "not within the spirit of
the game".

 Underarm bowling incident of
1981
 ICC banned underarm bowling in
limited overs cricket

38.
 Meher ____ (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 1894 –1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the
Avatar, God in human form.
 Terrence Mitchell "Terry" _____ (1935 - ) is an American composer and performing musician associated
with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer. His work is deeply
influenced by both jazz and Indian classical music.
 “X” is a song by the English rock band Y. The song's title is a combination of the names of two of the
guitarist’s philosophical and musical influences, Meher ____ and Terry _____. The song was included in Time
magazine's list of the All-Time 100 Songs, Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. (Images in next slide)

 X – Baba O’Riley
 Y – The Who

39.
 Qlb is a functional programming language developed in 2012 by Ramsey Nasser, a computer scientist at
the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City, as both an artistic endeavor and as a response
to the Anglophone bias in the vast majority of programming languages.
 According to the creator, the language explores the role of human culture in coding and highlights
cultural biases of computer science by challenging the assumptions we make about programming.
 The project was featured twice on the website Animal New York, once as a feature, where it was called
“Novel…Crucial…[And] incredibly exciting”.

 Programs are written completely in Arabic

40.
 X is an Indian film production company founded in 2011 by three Indian film directors along with
Madhu Mantena, a producer. It is generally cited as the "director's company“. In March 2015,
Reliance Entertainment picked up 50% stake in the company.
 In an interview, when a co-founder was asked why the company was named that way, he replied:
“Remember those candy __________ we used to eat? Attitude bhi hai aur harmful bhi nahi hain.”

41.
 The X is an independent bookseller, publisher, and literacy educator in downtown Las Vegas. It was
established in 2014 by 826NYC founder Scott Seeley and his husband Drew Cohen as part of Tony
Hsieh's Downtown Project in Las Vegas. It is the first independent bookstore in Las Vegas, and second in
the state of Nevada.
 X is also a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce
new work or experiences a creative slowdown. The condition ranges in difficulty from coming up with
original ideas to being unable to produce a work for years. Throughout history, X has been a
documented problem. (Image in the next slide)

42.
 The name “X" is a diminutive form of a Slavic word meaning water, and is also interpreted as little water.
 The word “X" was recorded for the first time in 1405 in Akta Grodzkie, the court documents from the
Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland. At the time, the word referred medicines and cosmetic products. The
word X written in Cyrillic appeared first in 1533, in relation to a medicinal drink brought from Poland to
Russia by the merchants of Kievan Rus'.
 Another possible connection of “X" with "water" is the name of the medieval beverage aqua vitae (Latin,
literally, "water of life"), which is reflected in Polish okowita, Ukrainian оковита, Belarusian акавіта, and
Scandinavian akvavit.

 Cuban Missile Crisis
 JFK and Nikita Khrushchev

44.
 Oculolinctus, refers to the alleged paraphilic practice of ________________ for erotic gratification. In mid-
2013, English-language newspapers reported that this fetish had allegedly become popular in Japan,
where it was referred to as Gankyū name purei. However, other media have reported that the existence
of this practice is a hoax based on a story in a Japanese tabloid and many of the originally reporting
articles were corrected or retracted as being possibly a hoax.
 In 2013, oculolinctus reportedly became popular among teenagers in Japan, causing a significant rise in
eye infections. According to a retracted article by The Guardian, _______________ was "seen as a new
second-base; the thing you graduate to when kissing gets boring", possibly due to it being featured in a
music video by the Japanese band Born. Further reports, e.g. by the tabloid Daily Mail or in an article by
the Huffington Post later corrected as a possible hoax, showed an increase in Japanese schoolchildren
wearing eyepatches due to eye infections arising from the act, with one school finding one third of 12-
year-old students admitting to engaging in oculolinctus. There are also accounts of this practice in the
U.S. Virgin Islands.

 Eyeball – licking fetishism

45.
 ------------- (1804)
 ------------- (1927)
 ------------- (1959)
 ------------- (1974)
 Matej Gašpar from Zagreb, Croatia (1987)
 Adnan Mević from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999)
 ------------- (2012), but proposed canditates were Nargis Kumar of Uttar Pradesh, India; Danica May
Camacho of Manila, Philippines; and Wattalage Muthumai of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 Population milestone babies chosen by the UN Population Fund

46.
 Which 1980s comedy flick is the only film whose IMDb page displays it’s user rating out of 11 stars
instead of the standard scale of one to ten?

47.
 Commenting on their announcement, Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Dictionaries, said: “You
can see how traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the rapid-fire, visually focused
demands of 21st Century communication. It’s not surprising that a pictographic script like _____ has
stepped in to fill those gaps—it’s flexible, immediate, and infuses tone beautifully. As a result _____ are
becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders. When
Andy Murray tweeted out his wedding itinerary entirely in _____, for example, he shared a subtle mix of
his feelings about the day directly with fans around the world. It was highly effective in expressing his
emotions.”

 Oxford Dictionaries “Word” of the Year 2015 being

48.
 The X worm, also known as Blackworm, Nyxem, and Blackmal, is a type of malware that infects PCs using
Microsoft Windows. Discovered January 16, 2006, the worm arrived via e-mail, enticing computer users
with promises of sexy pictures. The subject lines included "School girl fantasies gone bad", "Hot Movie",
"Crazy illegal Sex!" and “X pics". When users clicked on the attachment, the machine became infected.
Once executed, the worm can corrupt and overwrite the most common Windows file types, .doc, .pdf, .zip,
and .xls, among others; the data are changed and become unrecoverable.
 The Y virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector
virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a
disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small "ball" bouncing around the screen in
both text mode (the ASCII bullet character "•") and graphical mode. No serious damage is incurred by the
virus except on '286 machines (and also V20, '386 and '486), which would sometimes crash during the
ball's appearance on the screen. (Image)

 X: Kama Sutra
 Y: Ping – Pong

49.
 The Onion, a news satire organization, published an article on a new Subway Promotion to honor
an event.
 In response, Subway tweeted:

50.
 Beyond All Boundaries, is a 2013 sports documentary directed by Sushrut Jain and narrated by Kunal
Nayyar. It tells the stories of three different personalities of Indian Cricket: Prithvi, a 12 -year old boy
considered a cricket prodigy; Akshaya, a girl cricketer from Mumbai's slums competing in the trials for
selection to the Mumbai Women's Team.
 Who was the third person, also featured on the documentary’s poster?

 Gandhi’s letter to Hitler

52.
 X is a sport first mentioned in The House at ____ Corner, a book by A. A. Milne. It is a simple sport
which may be played on any bridge over running water; each player drops a stick on the upstream
side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner. The
annual World X Championships have been held at Day's Lock on the River Thames in the UK since
1984.

53.
 Reddit AMA (Ask Me
Anything) request for
whom?

 Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace

54.
 Junun is a 2015 documentary film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It documents the making of
an album of the same name in X Fort in Y, India, by the Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, English
composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, Indian ensemble the Y Express, and
Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhSyy6UM94&ab_cha
nnel=MUBI

 X – Mehrangarh
 Y - Rajasthan

55.
 The XY is a conceptual high-speed transportation system originally put forward by Z, incorporating
reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear
induction motors and air compressors.
 The name XY was chosen by Z because it would go in a Y, and he envisions the more advanced
versions of the system ultimately being able to go at X-sonic speed.
 In May 2013, Z likened the XY to a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey
table,“ while noting that it has no need for rails. He believes it could work either below or above
ground. (Image in next slide)

 XY – Hyperloop
 Z – Elon Musk

+50 / -25
 These are 6 binary asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by the
European Southern Observatory during the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC).
9617 _____________
9618 __________
9619 ____________
9620 ________
9621 ____________
9622 __________

+40 / -20
 In 2006, Ben & Jerry's, known for their "celebrity flavours", introduced to the lineup "VerX Y", a
coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl and fudge cows. The name “Z Y" had
been suggested before in 1996 in a contest to select the quintessential British ice cream flavour.
 Z, a minor modification of the word X, is a flavour.

+30 / -15
 In 1985, a fossil of a previously unknown species of gigantic prehistoric snake from the Miocene was
discovered in Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. The Australian palaeontologist who discovered the
fossil snake gave the snake the taxonomic name of ___________oides riversleighensis in honour of the
___________ team.

+20 / -10
 X is irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of users, for
the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. It was named after a luncheon meat,
by way of a 1970 ____________ sketch in which X is included in every dish.

+10 / 0
 The X programming language by Guido van Rossum is named after the troupe, and ____________
references are often found in sample code created for that language. The programming language
development environment is named IDLE.

+50 / -25
 These are 6 binary asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by the
European Southern Observatory during the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC).
9617 Grahamchapman
9618 Johncleese
9619 Terrygilliam
9620 Ericidle
9621 Michaelpalin
9622 Terryjones

+40 / -20
 In 2006, Ben & Jerry's, known for their "celebrity flavours", introduced to the lineup "Vermonty
Python", a coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl and fudge cows. The name
“Minty Python" had been suggested before in 1996 in a contest to select the quintessential British
ice cream flavour.
 Minty, a minor modification of the word Monty, is a flavour.

+30 / -15
 In 1985, a fossil of a previously unknown species of gigantic prehistoric snake from the Miocene was
discovered in Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia. The Australian palaeontologist who discovered the
fossil snake gave the snake the taxonomic name of Montypythonoides riversleighensis in honour of
the Monty Python team.

+20 / -10
 Spam is irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of
users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. It was named after a
luncheon meat, by way of a 1970 Monty Python sketch in which Spam is included in every dish.

+10 / 0
 The Python programming language by Guido van Rossum is named after the troupe, and Monty
Python references are often found in sample code created for that language. The programming
language development environment is named IDLE.

 Things named after Monty Python

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