Mind Palace Gen Quiz Finals
- 1. MinD PalacE General Quiz Finals! VIRAJ MAVANI NIHAR SHAH
- 2. Lets Roll! Clockwise Round +10 on Bounce +15/-10 on Pounce
- 6. 2. Version 2.1 The visual appearance X was Based on the G.I. Joe action figures. For X’s “bad” look, its hair was spiked and brown colored lenses were used for it’s eyes. Whereas for its “good” look green colored lenses were used. The wig used for X’s “bad look had a silver streak in the middle , made out of Yak hair, while its jacket was designed by Vogt. Suits made of copper were used for X’s costumes.
- 9. 3. <… In 2010 NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas using images obtained by Cassini. The warmest regions which are along one edge of Mimas, Create a shape similar to a videogame character. Which character?
- 11. Pac-Man
- 12. 4. Pigeons are powerfull!
- 14. During WWII, a project was started by the Americans in which pigeons were used to guide missiles.
- 15. 5. Food, food, food! The restaurants “Palm Court”, “Café Parisien” and “Verandah” were created and intended to be used as grand eateries in the early part of the 20th Century, but they all provided service for only a few days. Why?
- 17. They were on the Titanic!
- 18. 6. A killer song! "Gloomy Sunday", also known as the "Hungarian X", is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933. The original lyrics were titled Vége a világnak (The world is ending) and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about people's sins. Poet László Jávor wrote his own lyrics to the song, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday). The latter lyrics ended up becoming more popular while the former were essentially forgotten. The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935.
- 20. X – Suicide Song!
- 21. 7. Think Water, Think Tragedy! The Congo River or The Zaire is the second largest river in the world, after Amazon, in terms of discharge. Something unique about it made a clamorous outbreak across the world few years ago. What is it?
- 23. Ebola!
- 24. 8. Aliases Jughashvili was a very effective organizer of men as well as a capable intellectual. Among other activities, he wrote and distributed propaganda, organized strikes, and raised funds through bank robberies, kidnappings, extortion, and assassinations. Jughashvili was arrested and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but often escaped. His skill, charm, and street-smarts won him the respect of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov=Y(Alias), and he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Bolsheviks.
- 25. Continued… Jughashvili married his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, in 1906, who bore him a son. She died the following year of typhus. In 1911, he met his future second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, during one of his many exiles in Siberia. Sometime between 1910 and 1912, he began using the alias “X" in his writings. ID X.
- 27. X – Joseph Stalin Y – Vladimir Lenin
- 28. Why the name?! 6 Questions. +5 for each correct answer. +10 for all correct.
- 29. 1. Atticus tells Jem and Scout that it is wrong to do X(an act); Miss Maudie explains later that this is because they are something which do nothing but give pleasure to people. The _______’s death is thus symbolic of any loss of innocence.
- 30. 2. Back when radio was invented, people noticed that it could go through a vacuum, through space. In those days it was thought that a wave couldn't go through a vacuum--like a sound wave for instance, it has to have some medium to go through. So scientists developed the idea of 'ether', a sort of gelatin-like substance that exists throughout the universe, the medium that radio waves travel through (also light waves, xray, etc.). It was named after another very ancient concept that space was filled with very light, rarified elements called ether (or aether). That's where we get the word 'ethereal’. What got its name from this belief?
- 31. 3. It gets its name because it literally means River of January.
- 32. 4. X was the month, when the father would give his son-in-law all the mead he wanted. Mead is an alcoholic drink made of something which can lead to X
- 33. 5. A ______ is a group of people coming together and reaching a consensus. It also rhymes with ‘Flora’ which is about being healthy and alive.
- 34. 6. It means “Goat’s town” in Anglo-Saxon. It also is the name of an actual town in England, a sleepy village in Nottinghamshire.
- 35. Lets Roll 2! Anti-clockwise +10 on Bounce +15/-10 on Pounce
- 36. 1. Steve Jobs can sue you! In 1983 the subscribers of PC world received a floppy with a magazine. This was probably the first time in history that a magazine featured a Floppy bind in. Now days this practice is pretty common with magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced to the subscribers via that floppy?
- 38. Word for MS-DOS
- 39. 2. Time to celebrate! 20 countries celebrate a common X on October 5: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Macedonia, Maldives, Mauritius, Republic of Moldova, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia and United Kingdom. 11 countries celebrate a common X on February 28: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, UAE and Oman.
- 41. Teachers’ Day
- 42. 3. Put Funda!
- 45. 4. Connect 1991 China 1995 Sweden 1999 US 2003 US 2007 China 2011 Germany 2015 Canada
- 48. 5. Someone The young X began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included. He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in "sinister plots".
- 50. George R R Martin
- 51. 6. No Tagline! Connect Korea Bahrain Liechtenstein Republic of the Congo India
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- 56. These are the photos of the 670 U.S Soldiers who died in Iraq war.
- 57. 8. From 1900 to 1950, “Paper Bag parties” were very common in many major American cities. What are “Paper Bag parties”?
- 59. If you are lighter in ethnicity or the same as the brown paper bag, you are admitted.
- 60. Written Round 2! +5 for each correct slide
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- 69. 1. Looney Tunes Show !!
- 70. 2. Lion King…
- 71. 3.Road Runner
- 72. 4. Tellytubbies.
- 73. 5. Bob the builder
- 74. 6.Dragon Tails
- 75. 7. Pokemon
- 76. Connect! +5 for each correct slide.
- 77. 1. +70/-35 X Y (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German maker of optical instruments best known for the company he founded, X Y Jena (now: X Y AG). He made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses. Raised in Weimar, Germany, he opened a lens-making workshop in the 1840s in the city of Jena. At first his lenses were only used in the production of microscopes, but when cameras were invented, his company began manufacturing high-quality lenses for cameras.
- 78. 2. +60/-30 X Y is often bullied by his older siblings Buzz, Megan, Jeff, and Linnie, and even his Uncle Frank. He is very strong when it comes to fighting burglars by setting booby traps. He is very intelligent and can be a mature kid.
- 79. 3. +50/-25 X Y WAS an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20.
- 80. 4. +40/-20 X and Y is an American animated series of short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, X and Y, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy.
- 81. 5. +30/-15 When the Y’s go to an orphanage to adopt a new family member, a charming young ____ named X is chosen. While George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic about having a _____ as his "master" and plots to get rid of him.
- 82. 6. ID the character wearing shades! +20/-10
- 83. 7. +15/-5 X Y also serves on the board of directors of Nike, Inc. and the National Football Foundation. In 2014, Y became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly identify as gay.
- 84. 8. +10/0 X Y, was a Jamaican reggae singer, song writer, musician, and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim. Starting out in 1963 with the group The Wailers, he forged a distinctive songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with audiences worldwide.
- 86. Answers Carl Zeiss Kevin McCallister Phil Hughes Tom and Jerry Stuart Little Dave Tim Cook Bob Marley And the connect is…
- 87. Minions!