Quizmasters: Anusha, Namita, Pratyush

1. Quiz Meet
- Namita, Anusha, Pratyush

2. • The first successful X was created by Bill Wasik, a senior editor
of Harper’s Magazine in 2003. He claimed he created X to
poke fun at hipsters and at the atmosphere of conformity.
• X is a subset of Y but essentially differs from Y in the sense
that it doesn’t serve a social purpose.
• The first documented use of the term X was in 2003 in a blog
post. The term X was added to the Concise OED in 2004
where it was defined as an “unusual and pointless act”.

3. He was born in Jetpur near Rajkot in Gujarat and is the
youngest of three brothers. He was introduced to
musical performance by his elder brother Manhar. His
first stage performance was during the Sino-Indian
War, when he sang "Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo" and
was given Rs. 51 by an audience member as a reward.
His first album, Aahat, was released in 1980. From this,
he began to have success and, as of 2011 he has
released more then 50 albums and hundreds of
compilation albums. In 1986, he got the opportunity
to perform in the film Naam, alongside Lata
Mangeshwar.

4. In the 14th century, X was the name given to the heart, liver,
entrails etc. of animals. X soon began to be called Y through
metanalysis which is the changing of boundaries between
words. Y was used in Z, which is a part of a famous idiom .
B, also a part of the idiom, is said to have been derived
separately from Y. The similarity of the sound of the words,
and the fact that Y-Z was often consumed by those of B
situation could easily have been the reason for the idiom to
have come to have its current meaning.
Identify B

5. • Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter
and a major figure in the abstract expressionist
movement. He is well known for his uniquely defined
style of drip painting.
• After a workshop in liquid paints, he began painting
with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he
developed what was later called his drip technique,
turning to synthetic resin-based paints. In 1956
Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" as a
result of his unique painting style.
• This habit of laying down his large canvases on the
floor had an unexpected result in some of his greatest
works.

6. X is the surname of a two time Best Director
Oscar winner described by the New York Times as
"one of the most honored and influential
directors in Broadway and Hollywood history”. X
was responsible for discovering Marlon Brando. X
means cauldron in Turkish.
X is also the capital of the Russian Republic of
Tatarstan and lies at the confluence of
the Volga and Kazanka Rivers.

7. • The term X originated during the American Gilded Age
with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer’s New
York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York
Journal. The battle peaked from 1895 to about 1898, and
historical usage often refers specifically to this period .
During this period both papers were accused by critics of
using unethical means in order to drive up circulation.
• The term X was coined by Erwin Wardman , the editor of
the New York Press with reference to a well known comic
strip Y that was published by both the newspapers during
the period.
• X became one of the prime causes of the United States’
entry into the Spanish American War due to the
sensationalist stories of the terrible conditions in Cuba.

8. • X is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book
by Dr.Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of
2001, according to Publishers Weekly, it was the
fourth-best-selling English-language children's book
(novel) of all time.
• The vocabulary of the text consists of 50 words and
was the result of a bet between Seuss and and his
publisher. The storyline is relatively simple revolving
around a strange dog-like creature that finds himself
being constantly pestered by a smaller being known as
"Sam I Am" who insists that he taste a bizarre type of
cuisine.

9. • X is a fictional character in the. Created by
writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller-co-
plotter Jack Kirby, X first appeared in Fantastic
Four #52 (July 1966). He is the first African
American superhero in mainstream American
comics, debuting several years
before superheroes such as Falcon ,Luke
Cage and John Stewart.
• X is the ceremonial title given to the chief of the
________ Tribe of the advanced African nation
of Wakanda.

10. • One of the popular theories is that the term X
was derived from the phrase Y which dates back
to 1781 when Reverend Samuel Peters published
his history of Conneticut. He painted the strict
laws of the puritan colonists as Y meaning “
bloody laws” or those that were enforced by
brutality. Y became shorthand for any strict, old
fashioned laws such as those forbidding the sale
of alcohol on Sundays. Y had forbidden X and
hence became associated with X.

11. X is a historically derogatory slang term used in
reference to poor, uneducated white farmers,
especially from the southern United States. It is similar
in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Georgia
and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia
and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last
term's suggestions of immorality).
In recent decades, the term has expanded its meaning
to refer to bigoted, loutish reactionaries who are
opposed to modern ways, and has often been used to
attack Southern conservatives and racists. The term
characterized farmers having a certain feature caused
by sunburn from hours working in the fields.

12. Connect

13. They are a set of philosophical problems devised
by a 5th century Greek philosopher to
support the doctrine that "all is one“. Aristotle
offered a refutation of some of his arguments.
These are perhaps the first examples of a method
of proof called reductio ad absurdum also known
as proof by contradiction. One of the most
famous of these arguments says “You will never
reach point B from point A as you must always get
half-way there, and half of the half, and half of
that half, and so on...” , also called the Dichotomy.

14. The earliest known appearance of X is from The Michigan
School Moderator, a journal that provided teachers with
education-related news and suggestions for lessons, where it
was given as a suggestion for writing practice. It was used to
test keyboards and typewriters. Versions of Microsoft
Word prior to Word 2007 on Windows and Microsoft Word for
Mac 2011 feature the text if =rand() is typed and followed by
a return. The text is produced in Word 2007 and later
if =rand.old() is typed and followed by a return.

15. • X replaced Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century
Fox’s resident blonde bombshell in 1956. She
was said to be one of the actresses who
contributed the most to the dumb blonde
stereotype and most of the original blonde
humour was based on her. Ironically she
boasted an IQ of 163 and spoke five
languages. She was also a classically trained
violinist and pianist.

16. • X was an American actress and socialite who died
at the age of 28 suffering from drug abuse and
mental illnesses. She was best known as the
muse of avante-garde artist A having starred in
several of his short films. It has been rumored
that Bob Dylan’s “Just like a Woman” , “Leopard-
Skin Pill-Box Hat” and Y were about her.
• The movie Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller is
based on her life and especially her relationship
with A.
• Name X,Y and A.

17. • B is an English model who is known for
her waifish figure and popularising the heroin
chic look in the 1990s. With her campaign for
Calvin Klein, she started a global debate on eating
disorders and is said to have ushered in the size
zero fashion.
• She has been the subject of potraits by several
contemporary artists such as Lucian Freud and
Chuck Close as well the Babyshambles song
“What ____ Did Next”.

18. • C was an American actress, singer, model and
showgirl who starred in a number of
commercially successful motion pictures during
the 1950s. She had three marriages, all of which
ended in divorce. She suffered two miscarriages
and X during her three marriages. This resulted in
an increased awareness regarding X.
• Nicole Kidman is another celebrity who suffered
X during her marriage to Tom Cruise.

19. • D is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist,
political activist, film director, and painter. His work
was born out of the Bristol underground scene that
involves collaborations between artists and musicians.
• In August 2004, D produced a quantity of spoof British
£10 notes substituting the picture of the Queen's head
with Princess Diana’s head and changing the text "Bank
of England" to “X of England”.
• D’s first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop billed as "the
world's first street art disaster movie," made its debut
at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In 2011, he was
nominated for the Academy Award for the Best
Documentary for the film

20. • X is a disorienting neurological condition which
affects human visual perception. Subjects
perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and
inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in
reality. Generally, the object perceived appears
far away or extremely close at the same time.
This leads to another name for the condition Y.
• X and Y are both derived from literary references
Give me X and Y or the literary works.

21. X was created by Victor Lardent and used by a
British newspaper Y in 1931, after
typographer Stanley Morison criticized the
newspaper. Y used X for 40 years, but change
in production techniques and the shift from
broadsheet to tabloid caused it to change to
different variants of X.

22. • Juliane Koepcke was born a German national
in Lima, Peru, in 1954, the daughter of a
world-renowned zoologist (Hans-Wilhelm) and
an equally revered ornithologist (Maria). Her
story was there on The Top Wilderness
Survival Stories by Outside Online. She was
the inspiration behind Wings of Hope, a little-
known documentary that was made for
German television by Werner Herzog in 2000.
What is her story?