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The document discusses the rules for Quiz Club IIT Guwahati. It states that the first 15 questions are worth 1 mark each, the next 5 questions are worth 2 marks each, and there are no negatives. It also outlines that the top 8 teams will qualify for the finals, sudden death will apply in case of a tie, points do not carry forward, and the quizmasters' decisions are final.

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Quiz Club IIT Guwahati  Sagar Mewar  Rishabh Jain
Rules  First 15 questions carry one mark each.  Next 5 questions carry two marks each.  No negatives.  8 Teams qualify for the final.  Sudden death applicable in case of tie.  Points do not carry forward.  Quizmasters’ decisions are final.
1. Identify X The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi in order to impress the girl. "You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2. Audio :
2. Rules of which place?  If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this meeting today in precisely five seconds.  The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.  Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a house guest.  If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.
3. FITB Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from author Robert Bloch for just $9,000. After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production 9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a secret. _______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40 million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.
4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb  Played by Brenda Song, London Leah Tipton is one of the main characters of The Suite Life series.  She is supposed to be a parody of a Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a rich family, dresses up in high end clothes and also her name is a parody of the celeb in question.
5. Guess the blanked out part
6. FITB The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:  Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial site.  In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.
7.What is the material used? This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on hearing a particular speech made by the subject of this painting while on a tour to Africa in 2009. Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______ to come up with this work which is meant to be viewed from the front as well as the back, where the open ends of the material used gives the portrait a more abstract feel.
8. Identify X The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering 20,000 times per second.
9. Identify X Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles, with 38 percent of the public vote.
10.Who is Harley Quinn’s spirit animal?
11. Claim to fame? L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti. By Giacometti’s own account, he created L’Homme au doigt in a single night in October 1947. On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for what reason?
12.Who? Hint : 3 time Oscar winner Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera.” Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“ Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary things.“ Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”
13. Connect Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles Billions of bilious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Blithering Bombardier! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Blistering Barnacles! Blistering blundering bird- brain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Body snatcher! Bootlegger! Breathalyser! Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Buccaneers! Bully! Butcher!
14.Who?  X is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor.  It depicts the professional and private life of the X.  It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award- nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.
15. Identify the blanked out part
16. Identify the painter and the painting The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as, "I was walking along the road with two Friends The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire My Friends walked on – I remained behind Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”
17. Identify X andY Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.” If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X”.
18. Identify X andY The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega- famous science fiction novel Y. “We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
19. Id X andY X Y
20. Identify X and funda As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of? 1. X : 12,366 2. Chicago : 8,691 3. The Lion King : 8,294 4. Cats : 7,485 5. Les Misérables : 6,680 6. A Chorus Line : 6,137 7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959
MELA Quiz Prelims
1. Identify X The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi in order to impress the girl. "You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2. Audio :
Brett Lee
2. Rules of which place?  If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this meeting today in precisely five seconds.  The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.  Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a house guest.  If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.
Leonard and Sheldon’sApartment
3. FITB Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from author Robert Bloch for just $9,000. After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production 9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a secret. _______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40 million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.
Psycho
4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb  Played by Brenda Song, London Leah Tipton is one of the main characters of The Suite Life series.  She is supposed to be a parody of a Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a rich family, dresses up in high end clothes and also her name is a parody of the celeb in question.
Paris Hilton
5. Guess the blanked out part
Jingle Bells
6. FITB The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:  Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial site.  In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.
Harlem Shake
7.What is the material used? This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on hearing a particular speech made by the subject of this painting while on a tour to Africa in 2009. Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______ to come up with this work which is meant to be viewed from the front as well as the back, where the open ends of the material used gives the portrait a more abstract feel.
Condoms
8. Identify X The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering 20,000 times per second.
Nokia Ringtone
9. Identify X Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles, with 38 percent of the public vote.
Lost Man Booker Prize
10.Who is Harley Quinn’s spirit animal?
Shah Rukh Khan
11. Claim to fame? L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti. By Giacometti’s own account, he created ‘L’homme au doigt in a single night in October 1947. On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for what reason?
Most Expensive Sculpture sold
12.Who? Hint : 3 time Oscar winner Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera.” Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“ Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary things.“ Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”
Ingmar Bergman
13. Connect Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles Billions of bilious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Blithering Bombardier! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Blistering Barnacles! Blistering blundering bird- brain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Body snatcher! Bootlegger! Breathalyser! Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Buccaneers! Bully! Butcher!
Abuses by Captain Haddock
14.Who?  X is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor.  It depicts the professional and private life of the X.  It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award- nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo
15. Identify the blanked out part
Life of Pi
16. Identify the painter and the painting The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as, "I was walking along the road with two Friends The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire My Friends walked on – I remained behind Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”
The Scream Edward Munch
17. Identify X andY Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.” If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X ”.
X =Voldemort Y = Horcrux
18. Identify X andY The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega- famous science fiction novel Y. “We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
X = Heart of Gold Y =The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
19. Id X andY X Y
X = A R Rahman Y = 127 Hours
20. Identify X and funda As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of? 1. X : 12,366 2. Chicago : 8,691 3. The Lion King : 8,294 4. Cats : 7,485 5. Les Misérables : 6,680 6. A Chorus Line : 6,137 7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959
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MELA Quiz Prelims

  • 1. Quiz Club IIT Guwahati  Sagar Mewar  Rishabh Jain
  • 2. Rules  First 15 questions carry one mark each.  Next 5 questions carry two marks each.  No negatives.  8 Teams qualify for the final.  Sudden death applicable in case of tie.  Points do not carry forward.  Quizmasters’ decisions are final.
  • 3. 1. Identify X The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi in order to impress the girl. "You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2. Audio :
  • 4. 2. Rules of which place?  If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this meeting today in precisely five seconds.  The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.  Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a house guest.  If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.
  • 5. 3. FITB Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from author Robert Bloch for just $9,000. After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production 9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a secret. _______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40 million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.
  • 6. 4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb  Played by Brenda Song, London Leah Tipton is one of the main characters of The Suite Life series.  She is supposed to be a parody of a Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a rich family, dresses up in high end clothes and also her name is a parody of the celeb in question.
  • 7. 5. Guess the blanked out part
  • 8. 6. FITB The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:  Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial site.  In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.
  • 9. 7.What is the material used? This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on hearing a particular speech made by the subject of this painting while on a tour to Africa in 2009. Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______ to come up with this work which is meant to be viewed from the front as well as the back, where the open ends of the material used gives the portrait a more abstract feel.
  • 10. 8. Identify X The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering 20,000 times per second.
  • 11. 9. Identify X Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles, with 38 percent of the public vote.
  • 13. 11. Claim to fame? L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti. By Giacometti’s own account, he created L’Homme au doigt in a single night in October 1947. On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for what reason?
  • 14. 12.Who? Hint : 3 time Oscar winner Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera.” Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“ Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary things.“ Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”
  • 15. 13. Connect Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles Billions of bilious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Blithering Bombardier! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Blistering Barnacles! Blistering blundering bird- brain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Body snatcher! Bootlegger! Breathalyser! Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Buccaneers! Bully! Butcher!
  • 16. 14.Who?  X is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor.  It depicts the professional and private life of the X.  It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award- nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.
  • 17. 15. Identify the blanked out part
  • 18. 16. Identify the painter and the painting The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as, "I was walking along the road with two Friends The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire My Friends walked on – I remained behind Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”
  • 19. 17. Identify X andY Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.” If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X”.
  • 20. 18. Identify X andY The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega- famous science fiction novel Y. “We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
  • 21. 19. Id X andY X Y
  • 22. 20. Identify X and funda As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of? 1. X : 12,366 2. Chicago : 8,691 3. The Lion King : 8,294 4. Cats : 7,485 5. Les Misérables : 6,680 6. A Chorus Line : 6,137 7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959
  • 24. 1. Identify X The song tells the story of a foreigner, played in the audio clip by X, trying to woo a young Indian woman. Asha Bhosle plays the role of an advisor, teaching him Hindi in order to impress the girl. "You're the One for Me" has achieved relative success in India, owing greatly to X's cult status and Bhosle's popularity as a Bollywood singer. Upon release, the song debuted at #4 on the Indian Singles Chart and reached as high as #2. Audio :
  • 26. 2. Rules of which place?  If either of us ever invents time travel, we agree our first stop will be this meeting today in precisely five seconds.  The thermostat must be kept at 72 degrees at all times.  Roommates must notify each other 12 hours in advanced if they wish to have a house guest.  If one friend gets super powers, he will name the other one as his sidekick.
  • 28. 3. FITB Alfred Hitchcock bought the movie rights to the novel _______ anonymously from author Robert Bloch for just $9,000. After he purchased the movie rights to Robert Bloch’s novel, Alfred Hitchcock then purchased as many copies of _______ as he could in order to keep the ending of the film a secret. During the filming of _______ , the movie was referred to as “Production 9401″ or “Wimpy.” Director Alfred Hitchcock was zealous about keeping the ending a secret. _______ , the original film, only cost $800,000 to make, yet has earned more than $40 million. Alfred Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money.
  • 30. 4. Guess the Hollywood Celeb  Played by Brenda Song, London Leah Tipton is one of the main characters of The Suite Life series.  She is supposed to be a parody of a Hollywood celebrity. She comes from a rich family, dresses up in high end clothes and also her name is a parody of the celeb in question.
  • 32. 5. Guess the blanked out part
  • 34. 6. FITB The ______ _____ is a style of dance that involves pivoting the shoulder out while popping the other shoulder out at the same time. The dance itself is defined by Urban Dictionary as ‘An eccentric upper body dance move that involves the shaking of the upper torso and shoulders.’ Some repercussions of X have been:  Five Russians were arrested by the police after they uploaded a video of themselves doing the dance on a World War II-era army tank at a war memorial site.  In March, a Welsh religious education teacher was suspended from his post after a ______ _____video allegedly showing him dancing with a lifesize cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI was posted online.
  • 36. 7.What is the material used? This is a 2013 art installation by Milwaukee artist Niki Johnson, who was appalled on hearing a particular speech made by the subject of this painting while on a tour to Africa in 2009. Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______ to come up with this work which is meant to be viewed from the front as well as the back, where the open ends of the material used gives the portrait a more abstract feel.
  • 38. 8. Identify X The X tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. It is a 13 note piano phrase introduced 25 years ago in a commercial. It has been the icon of the corporation ever since, and has become a cult classic. Estimates say that the tune is heard around 1.8 billion times each day, which equates to a staggering 20,000 times per second.
  • 40. 9. Identify X Until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. As the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration , X a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970. The prize was won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles, with 38 percent of the public vote.
  • 44. 11. Claim to fame? L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 work by Alberto Giacometti. By Giacometti’s own account, he created ‘L’homme au doigt in a single night in October 1947. On 11 May 2015, this work was in the news for what reason?
  • 46. 12.Who? Hint : 3 time Oscar winner Woody Allen : “Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera.” Steven Spielberg : "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.“ Satyajit Ray : "It’s X whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he’s remarkable. I envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary things.“ Ang Lee : “For me, the filmmaker X is the greatest actor of all…”
  • 48. 13. Connect Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles Billions of bilious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Billions of blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon Blithering Bombardier! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Blistering Barnacles! Blistering blundering bird- brain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Body snatcher! Bootlegger! Breathalyser! Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Buccaneers! Bully! Butcher!
  • 49. Abuses by Captain Haddock
  • 50. 14.Who?  X is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor.  It depicts the professional and private life of the X.  It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award- nominated portrayal as X and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.
  • 52. 15. Identify the blanked out part
  • 54. 16. Identify the painter and the painting The painter in his dairy wrote about his painting describing it as, "I was walking along the road with two Friends The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire My Friends walked on – I remained behind Shivering with Anxiety – I felt ___ _______ in nature.”
  • 56. 17. Identify X andY Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s December 26 visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Telegraph : “If militarism is like the haunting X of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of Y, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.” If was followed by another op-ed published by his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Hayashi, in the same newspaper, headlined :“China risks becoming Asia’s X ”.
  • 57. X =Voldemort Y = Horcrux
  • 58. 18. Identify X andY The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named X, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega- famous science fiction novel Y. “We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard,” Musk said, “And the name of the first ship that goes to Mars not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is X.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, Musk emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
  • 59. X = Heart of Gold Y =The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • 60. 19. Id X andY X Y
  • 61. X = A R Rahman Y = 127 Hours
  • 62. 20. Identify X and funda As of October 15, 2017, what is this list of? 1. X : 12,366 2. Chicago : 8,691 3. The Lion King : 8,294 4. Cats : 7,485 5. Les Misérables : 6,680 6. A Chorus Line : 6,137 7. Oh! Calcutta! : 5,959
  • 63. The Phantom of the Opera Longest Running Broadway Show