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Before We Start:
1. 30 Question Prelims
2. All multiples of 5 are star marked
questions in order to break ties.
3. Sudden death if tie is still not broken
4. Prelims scores to be considered in
case of a tie after the finals.
1.
X is a painting which was published between 1830-1833.
It is one of the most recognized paintings in Japanese art history.
Copies of this painting lie in many Western collections , including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum in London and also in Claude Monet’s house in Giverny ,France.
It is a polycrome woodblock painting and was part of the series known as “Thirty Six views of Mount Fuji”.
The painting emphasizes the great power of nature and the precariousness of human existence.
Apple OSX and iOS use a small image of X as a water emoji.
Id X.
2.
X is a character who features in DC
Comics.First created by Joseph
Somachson and artist Joe Certa and first
appeared in DC Comics #225.He has
been ranked #44 in IGN’s greatest comic
book hero list .His only weakness is fire
and has one of the rare gifts of
Intangibility .His other abilities include
Invunerability , Shapeshifting and flight.
He’s part of the JLA ,JSA and Storm
Watch .Id X.
3.
In the 2013 summer sci fi movie X the director was inspired by Francis Goya’spainting “The Collosus” to create a “sense of awe “ in the film’s battle sequences and because of the scale of the characters.
The film featured the concept of psychic linking.
The following words might help you figure out the name of the film:
Eureka,Danger ,Hammer ,Knife and Cherno.
4.
Id this 1962 Spanish film from the phrase and the dialogue between B and G from “Midnight in Paris ” after it.
Dinner Guests enter a room for a party . They eat and drink. They move to the music room . The party ends. No one is able to leave the room .They aren’t trapped physically . They are trapped psychologically.
G:” I have an idea for a film for you…….”B: “But why can’t they leave ? I don’t
understand”
5.
What 1953 dystopian science fiction
novel would feature the following
chapters:
.)Hearth of a Salamander
.)Sieve and the Sand
.)Burning Light
And would later be adapted into a film
by Francois Truffaut.
7.
X is known as the father of “Bengali
Science Fiction” .
He has written the books “Niruddesher
Kahini “ (The Missing One) and
Palatak Tuphan (Runaway Cyclone).
X is famous for an entirely different
reason as well because of his
contributions in the fields of science
.Id X.
8.
Which professional boxer of the 1920’s was nicknamed
“Kid Blackie” and “ The Manassa Mauler”?He’s found his place on the Ring’s list at
#10 for all time greatest heavyweights.He was given the name “Manassa Mauler”
because he hailed from Mannassa,Colorado.
His name also been given to a certain type of Fish found mostly in the North and Central Americas because of their supposedly aggressive nature and strong facial features.
11.In 1974 a french consortium under Michael Seydoux purchased the
rights for this film ,X for Y to direct. The book from which it was adapted is described as the bible of science fiction .The film would be made in collaboration with with Dan O’Bannon, Christopher Foss, Jean Giroud (Moebius ), H.R Giger . The film would star Orson Welles , Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, Gloria Swanson, and David Carradine to name a few. The music of the film would be made by Pink Floyd ,Henry Cow and Magma.
The script was the size of a phone book and would result in a 14 hour movie.
Dali would charge $100,000 per hour .
But the film was never made.
The project was later given to David Lynch who didn’t make a good rendition of the film.
X would later inspire countless Sci Fi films such as Star Wars ,Blade Runner, Terminator, Robocop, Matrix , Alien , Predator , Species ,Prometheus ,Masters of the Universe, Flash Gordon etc.
A 2014 documentary film called X’s Y was made by Frank Pavich to honour the Y.
Id X and Y.
12.Guess X and Y from the these Epic Rap Battle lyrics:
X: Racks on racks 'cause I pen fat stacks of frightening writing. Have you seen the pile?
I can even take a break from my routine style;
Crank out a Shawshank or a Green Mile!
Masque of the Red Death? Barely blood curdling.
Pit and the Pendulum? Not even unnerving.
Perving on your first cousin when she's thirteen years old? Now, that's disturbing!
Y: X you pretend to do it, I've been really living through it,
Misery and poverty and family woes!
I see through you like pantyhose, doing Chappelle and Simpsons cameos! (Ahh!)
Even if you're gripping on a weapon, then you better get to stepping if you're messing with the horror lord!
In a minute maybe I'mma hit him, cut him into itty bitty bits, and I'mmastick him in the floorboards!
15.
Connect the following:
2004- autochthonous
2005- appoggiatura
2006- Ursprache
2007- serrefine
2008- guerdon
2009- Laodicean
2010- stromuhr
2011- cymotrichous
2012- guetapens
2013- knaidel
2014-stichomythia
feuilleton
16. 1969: Z 1970: My Night at Maud's 1971: Claire's Knee 1972: The Godfather 1973: The Emigrants 1974: Day for Night 1975: Nashville 1976: All the President's Men 1977: Annie Hall 1978: Straight Time 1979: Hair 1980: Raging Bull 1981: Ragtime 1982: Moonlighting 1983: The Right Stuff 1984: Once Upon a Time in
America
1985: Shoah
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: The Last Temptation of
Christ
1989: Do the Right Thing
1990: Goodfellas
1991: Hearts of Darkness: A
Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1992: One False Move
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Hoop Dreams
1995: Crumb
1996: Fargo
1997: The Ice Storm
1998: Babe: Pig in the City
ID the person who has listed
the above movies as the
best movie for that year.
17.
They were robbed of 19 of their 20-man senior squad after a decision by Fifa to declare players from the neighbouringcountry ineligible.
They could not even draft in their U-20 squad for the week's continental World Cup qualifying series as they were involved in end-of-term exams.
So the youth team squad had to called in to make up the numbers. To make it worse, they arrived without boots and lost two players to injury in the 13-0 defeat earlier that week. They were forced to play 15-year-olds, one appropriately named Baby Mulipola.
Which team?
18.
X is a 2006 drama film directed
by Oliver Stone . It stars Nicolas
Cage, Maria Bello, Michael
Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen
Dorff and Michael Shannon. The film
was shot between October 19, 2005
and February 10, 2006 and released
on August 9, 2006. The poster is given
on the next slide.
20
______ the Movie (2014)
124 min - Drama | Sport - 27 June 2014 (UK)
Ratings: 6.8/10
Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, X fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game.
Director:
John-Paul Davidson
Writer:
Tom Hodgson
Stars:
José Luis Gutiérrez, José Navar, Maria Molins
21.
The inspiration for the series was an
embarrassing evening when the actor
took a girlfriend to meet his parents.
They asked her awkward questions
and he wondered how they would
react if he invited a famous person to
his home.
Part of the title of the show is also
inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy.
ID The Show?
23.
Suhasini Haidar is the Strategic & Diplomatic Affairs Editor
of The Hindu. She has covered foreign affairs for more
than twenty years, as a correspondent for CNN
International's South Asia Bureau and then as Foreign
Editor for the CNN-IBN TV Network.
ID her famous/controversial/outspoken politician father.
24.
This is a Russian monthly named 64.
Which annual tradition have they
resumed from 1995, which was
discontinued between 1989-1994?
25. Vishesh Films' has taken rights of song X
from a suspense thriller of yesteryears for their forthcoming supernatural erotica 'Khamoshiyan'.
Mahesh Bhatt says that the track will act as an important aspect in the movie and will increase the anticipation factor.
“X plays at a very crucial juncture in the film 'Khamoshiyan'. It is such an iconic song and we wanted to use the song to heighten the mood of supernatural in the film," Mahesh said in a statement.
The song X?
26.
Which former Indian international
cricket player featured in “Mile Sur
Mera Tumhara” where he lipped the
Sindhi part of the lyrics?
27. The following two slides has actors
playing real life characters in the
movie “ Midnight In Paris”. ID them
28.
X may be a reference to the cupbearer
in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam.
However, X may also or instead be a
reference to the South
American monkey of that name, which
at least two commentators, which
have been connected to the "small,
long-tailed monkey from the Western
Hemisphere" that is a central
character in "The Remoulding of
Groby Lington".
30.
MTV European Music Awards
2014
Best Indian Act
X
Meet Bros Anjjan
Pritam Chakraborty
Vishal–Shekhar
2013
Best Indian Act
X
Amit Trivedi
AR Rahman
Mithoon
Pritam