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1. 30 questions in the ELIMINATORS.

2. 1 point for each correct answer/s of a question, no negative points.

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Eliminators

Who is the lyricist ?

1

What did it inspire ?

2

KOOL is a well known brand of menthol cigarettes.They started advertising with the character, Willie.Willie was seen portraying different jobs, like that ofdoctor, chef, soldier, etc., but the most famous beingthe one where dressed as a gentleman in tuxedosand a top hat.

What is X ?

3

These threatened harvest mouse,mostly found in Surrey NationalPark, are known for makingspherical home for their survival.For improving their health, recently,150 numbers of X have been usedas their alternative home.(remember, it is a FLAMES quiz!)

What are these bags called ?

4

These are two videos from The Hangover and Guardians ofthe Galaxy. Here we can see the actors wearing a bag, thathas been quite famous among the school and college children.

We can also see Indiana Jones wearing one.

Id the author !

5

X, the famous author picked up his pseudonym from amusical group.

The idea behind taking a pseudonym was to test whether hecould replicate his success again and to allay his fears that hispopularity was an accident and an another reason was that,during that time, the publishing houses didnt want to publishmore than one book by the same author in a single year,because they thought that more than one book by the sameauthor would not be cherished by the readers.

Wiki description of which Indian short

film ??

Here one royal face of Rajasthani man, there one goatroaming in front of a tiger model, standing and looking into theinfinite skies centuries together of a ruin, a hawk flying into the

blue seas, dispersing of the school children with cries listening tothe school bell, woman bathing at the river bank, lines in thedesert, an anklet lying over there among the lines, a windowwith a beautiful sculpture, a dirty canal in front of a house.like

this, from one thing to another, like a child`s heart, like asparrow, the camera movesin between, a lantern, anumbrella, a sandal appear

6

Cover of which famous album ?

7

At first, they selected this cover photo ofTime magazine in 1986 as the cover of theiralbum, but Geffen refused it by saying itwas in bad taste.

After rejecting a painting by RobertWilliams, finally they selected a tattoo,designed by Billy White Jr. They loved thetattoo, because they could represent theirband with this tattoo in an unique way!

The nickname/ X ?

8

Villareal Club de Futbol, S.A.D.,usually called Villareal CF, or justVillareal, is a Spanish footballclub. It was founded in 1923, andplays in La Liga.

It is nicknamed as X due to itskit and being a low-profiled teamcomparing to its opponents.

Who is the dialogist(writer of the dialogues) and the subject of the movie?

9

Whom(X) is it named after ?

10

This is a summer sweet dessertoriginating in New Zealand andeaten both in New Zealand andAustralia throughout the year. It ismost popular during the Christmasand is made of egg whites, castersugar, fruit, etc. The dessert isbelieved to have been created inhonour of X either during or afterone of X`s tours to Australia andNew Zealand in the 1920s.

Which painting ?

11

This is one of the most iconic painting , which captured ahistorical event of 1960.

The model for the painting was a little girl Lynda Gunn. Gunnposed for five days, her feet propped at angles with blocks ofwood in order to emulate walking. On the final day, Gunn wasjoined by the Stockbridge Chief of Police and three US Marshalsfrom Boston. Interestingly the artist also shot a number ofphotographs of his own legs taking steps, in order to have morereferences of folds and creases in walking mens pant legs.

Which movie to be released in

September ??

12

X is an upcoming American biographical thriller-drama film. The director is Robert Zemeckis. The film isbased on a French high-wire artist who is known forhis famous walk between the roofs of the Twin Towersof the World Trade Centre on a high wire. Also there isa children`s picture book, The Man Who WalkedBetween the Towers, and a 2008 British documentary,Man on Wire based on him.

Who is the painter(X)?

13

Only one time in his life, he organized an art exhibition. The exhibition titled Paintings by X was organized at Nalbaris Shri Bharati Sangrohaloys Pakobi06 Art Gallery, on 15th

November, in the year 2009.

One of his paintings depicts a small boy from the rear, standingin the tentative transitory path between childhood and youthwhile the another painting depicted a girl with a red bindi onher forehead.

The exhibition was inaugurated by the assamese author Anuradha Sarma Pujari and said X represented Love in green colours!!

The author and the Novel (X and Y) ??

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by AlexanderPushkin. It is a classic Russian literature, and itseponymous protagonist has been the inspiration of manyother Russian literary heroes. It was translated by CharlesJohnston.

The translation by Johnston has inspired X, an Indianauthor, to write his first novel, Y. The work is a novel inverse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas with the samerhyme scheme as that of Eugene Onegin.

14

Give me the film!

15

This is the cover page of the script of a film sketched by the director himself and features the central character of the film.

On December 5, 2014 the Orion spacecraft took this sketch on the first test flight of the unmanned Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1).

What is this album based on ?

16

Leviathan is the second album byAmerican heavy metal band Mastodon. Itwas released in 2004 by Relapse Networks.

The album contains songs like, Blood andThunder, Seabeast, Iron Tusk, Island, AquaDementia, Hearts Alive, etc.

What is his unique claim to fame?

17

He is an Indian cricketer born in 1905, Benares. His nicknamewas coined by Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, at HotelVictoria.

His most influential time in his career comes when he wasnamed the captain for Indian Cricket team after lobbying andmanipulation, for the 1936 tour of England. Due to his poorcaptaincy, the whole team splitted between those whosupported and those who criticised the captain. In the 1st testmatch, he offered Mushtaq Ali a gold watch to run out VijayMerchant. Now while India lost the series easily, somethinghappened and he got a unique distinction!

Who is the famous personality X

Fashion Blason is a 2008 jewellery line of Louis Vuitton, Designed by Camille Miceli and X. The designs are in yellow and white and show aristocracy. The success of the design lies in the fact that X is not a designer, but is a quit different field.

18

Who is the famous personality X

18

Which Assamese film?19

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Who is X?

Living Kitchen is a line of kitchenitems, which is joint design effortwith Sebastian Conran and X, andhas been around since 2003.Includes a series of classicstonewere everyday essentialsfeaturing cappuccino cups, teapotsand mixing bowls. Also featuresmelamine utensils includingcolanders, measuring cups andcitrus juicers, as well as a range ofheat-proof flameware.

20

21

ID the painter and his famous art work

series X!

He is one of the famous artist of his country. He was awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956 and thus he made history. His wife is also a famous French artist, Janine Mongillat.

His most famous artwork series is called X. The inspiration behind this artwork series have been his elementary school teacher, who drew a X on the blackboard and asked the artist to concentrate on it!

22

Which event inspired Omar Syed to

create this game?

Arimaa is a board game ,invented by an Indian American computer Engineer Omar Syed in 2003. Arimaa is Amir spelled backwards plus an initial a. This invention won various award in recent times.

Arimaa is played on an 8*8 board with four trap squares. The two players, Gold and Silver, each controlled sixteen pieces. These are: One elephant, one camel, two cats andeight rabbits.

23

Bollywood debut of which lyricist?

24

Just name her sister X

She (picture on next slide) was born in 1879, and was 11years older than her sister X. She attempted a career as awriter, and couldnt be successful. She wrote a play, TheClaimant, based on a real case, called the Tichborne case. Theplay enjoyed a short run in the year 1924.

She, once, challenged her sister X to write a story. Theirmother had suggested them to write stories to alleviate theboredom. Then the challenge was completed after eight yearsand her sister X wrote the first story of her career.

25In where we can see these two

paintings?

These are two paintings by Ruth Elisiv Ekeland.She is a Oslo, Norway based artist, most famous for poster and cover art design.

Which book ??

_____ ___ __ _ _______ is the sequel to famous book,

published in 1900, 11 years after the prequel was

published. The sequel has almost the same story

outline, but this time the protagonists go on a bicycle

tour through the Black Forest, Germany.

The last word in the book`s name had no translation in

English, although the writer wrote that the word meant

a journey where one had to reach home in a certain

time limit.

26

27

The headquarters of the organisation is in New York City near the lowerEast 40s United Nations.

The official logo of the organisation is a black globe with some lines oflongitude and latitude. Black concentric rings surround the glob; to theright of it is a black silhouette of a man in a black suit and a black bandbeneath the globe and the man features the name of the organisation inthe Decorated 035 font. The logo is superimposed on a map of theworld continents with no country borders ( which represents theirphilosophy) and blue seas.

Which Organisation?

Which product am I talking about ??

28

It all began in 1938 when an umpire complained a third basecoach about the sorry condition of the balls used by theleague. Back then a ball was prepped simply with mud madeof water and dirt from the playing field. The coach took on thechallenge. Next time he returned to his home in BurlingtonCounty, he checked out the mud along tributaries of the

Delaware River until he found some muck (the whereabouts ofthe mud hole is still a dark secret) with a texture he felt woulddo the job. He tested it and it worked like a charm! It had noodor and didn't turn the balls black. The umpires were happy,and he was soon in the business.

ID X & Y?

29

This song originated as the French song called "As Usual", written by thecomposers Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault. X discovered this songwhile visiting France and re-wrote the lyrics as Y" .This is a very popular Karaoke song, but one you should probably avoid inThe Philippines. As detailed in a February 6, 2010 article in the New YorkTimes, many violent incidents have taken place following Karaokeperformances of the song Y. So every violent Incidents related to it wasdescribed as Y Killing.Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder requested Y" for his finalsend-off. More than seven million television viewers watched tears well upin his eyes as a military band saw him off with a version of this song.

What is the name of this sleeve ??

30

A long, tight sleeve with a puff atthe top is a kind of sleeve that wasinspired by fashions of the ItalianRenaissance and named after X.X is popular from

the Empire period throughthe 1820s in fashion, and again inthe late 1960s under the influenceof Franco Zeffirelli film based onthe same story.

Answers

Who is the lyricist ?

1

Dr. Rita Choudhury

What did it inspire ?

2

KOOL is a well known brand of menthol cigarettes.They started advertising with the character, Willie.Willie was seen portraying different jobs, like that ofdoctor, chef, soldier, etc., but the most famous beingthe one where dressed as a gentleman in tuxedosand a top hat.

Penguin, from the Batman series

What is X ?

3

These threatened harvest mouse,mostly found in Surrey NationalPark, are known for makingspherical home for their survival.For improving their health, recently,150 numbers of X have been usedas their alternative home.(remember, it is a FLAMES quiz!)

Wimbledon Tennis Balls

What are these bags called ?

4

These are two videos from The Hangover and Guardians ofthe Galaxy. Here we can see the actors wearing a bag, thathas been quite famous among the school and college children.

We can also see Indiana Jones wearing one.

Satchel

Id the author !

5

X, the famous author picked up his pseudonym from amusical group.

The idea behind taking a pseudonym was to test whether hecould replicate his success again and to allay his fears that hispopularity was an accident and an another reason was that,during that time, the publishing houses didnt want to publishmore than one book by the same author in a single year,because they thought that more than one book by the sameauthor would not be cherished by the readers.

Stephen King

Wiki description of which Indian short

film ??

Here one royal face of Rajasthani man, there one goatroaming in front of a tiger model, standing and looking into theinfinite skies centuries together of a ruin, a hawk flying into the

blue seas, dispersing of the school children with cries listening tothe school bell, woman bathing at the river bank, lines in thedesert, an anklet lying over there among the lines, a windowwith a beautiful sculpture, a dirty canal in front of a house.like

this, from one thing to another, like a child`s heart, like asparrow, the camera movesin between, a lantern, anumbrella, a sandal appear

6

Through the Eyes of a Painterby M.F. Hussain

Cover of which famous album ?

7

At first, they selected this cover photo ofTime magazine in 1986 as the cover of theiralbum, but Geffen refused it by saying itwas in bad taste.

After rejecting a painting by RobertWilliams, finally they selected a tattoo,designed by Billy White Jr. They loved thetattoo, because they could represent theirband with this tattoo in an unique way!

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N RosesEach skulls representing one member of the 5 members band!

The nickname/ X ?

8

Villareal Club de Futbol, S.A.D.,usually called Villareal CF, or justVillareal, is a Spanish footballclub. It was founded in 1923, andplays in La Liga.

It is nicknamed as X due to itskit and being a low-profiled teamcomparing to its opponents.

Yellow Submarine

Who is the Dialogue writer and the subject of the movie?

9

Arupa Patangia Kalita and Burhi Aair Sadhu

Whom(X) is it named after ?

10

This is a summer sweet dessertoriginating in New Zealand andeaten both in New Zealand andAustralia throughout the year. It ismost popular during the Christmasand is made of egg whites, castersugar, fruit, etc. The dessert isbelieved to have been created inhonour of X either during or afterone of X`s tours to Australia andNew Zealand in the 1920s.

Anna Pavlova

Which painting ?

11

This is one of the most iconic painting , which captured ahistorical event of 1960.

The model for the painting was a little girl Lynda Gunn. Gunnposed for five days, her feet propped at angles with blocks ofwood in order to emulate walking. On the final day, Gunn wasjoined by the Stockbridge Chief of Police and three US Marshalsfrom Boston. Interestingly the artist also shot a number ofphotographs of his own legs taking steps, in order to have morereferences of folds and creases in walking mens pant legs.

The Problem We All Live With by

Norman Rockwell.

It depicts the historical walking of Ruby Bridges, An African-American girl, into anall-white public school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.

Which movie to be released in

September ??

12

X is an upcoming American biographical thriller-drama film. The director is Robert Zemeckis. The film isbased on a French high-wire artist who is known forhis famous walk between the roofs of the Twin Towersof the World Trade Centre on a high wire. Also there isa children`s picture book, The Man Who WalkedBetween the Towers, and a 2008 British documentary,Man on Wire based on him.

The Walk

Who is the painter(X)?

13

Only one time in his life, He organized an art exhibition. The exhibition titled Paintings by X was organized at Nalbaris Shri Bharati Sangrohaloys Pakobi06 Art Gallery, on 15th

November, in the year 2009.

One of his paintings depicts a small boy from the rear, standingin the tentative transitory path between childhood and youthwhile the another painting depicted a girl with a red Bindi onher forehead.

The exhibition was inaugurated by the assamese author Anuradha Sarma Pujari and said X represented Love in green colours!!

The author and the Novel (X and Y) ??

Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse written by AlexanderPushkin. It is a classic Russian literature, and itseponymous protagonist has been the inspiration of manyother Russian literary heroes. It was translated by CharlesJohnston.

The translation by Johnston has inspired X, an Indianauthor, to write his first novel, Y. The work is a novel inverse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas with the samerhyme scheme as that of Eugene Onegin.

14

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

Give me the film!

15

This is the cover page of the script of a film sketched by the director himself and features the central character of the film.

On December 5, 2014 the Orion spacecraft took this sketch on the first test flight of the unmanned Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1).

THE MARTIANS

What is this album based on ?

16

Leviathan is the second album byAmerican heavy metal band Mastodon. Itwas released in 2004 by Relapse Networks.

The album contains songs like, Blood andThunder, Seabeast, Iron Tusk, Island, AquaDementia, Hearts Alive, etc.

Herman Melville`s MobyDick

What is his unique claim to fame?

17

He is an Indian cricketer born in 1905, Benares. His nicknamewas coined by Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, at HotelVictoria.

His most influential time in his career comes when he wasnamed the captain for Indian Cricket team after lobbying andmanipulation, for the 1936 tour of England. Due to his poorcaptaincy, the whole team splitted between those whosupported and those who criticised the captain. In the 1st testmatch, he offered Mushtaq Ali a gold watch to run out VijayMerchant. Now while India lost the series easily, somethinghappened and he got a unique distinction!

He was the only cricketer to

have a knighthood bestowed

on him as an active test cricketer.

he is Vijay Ananda Gajapathi

Raju or Maharajkumar of

Vizianagram.

Who is the famous personality X

Fashion Blason is a 2008 jewellery line of Louis Vuitton, Designed by Camille Miceli and X. The designs are in yellow and white and show aristocracy. The success of the design lies in the fact that X is not a designer, but is a quit different field.

18

Who is the famous personality X

18

Pharrell Williams

18

Which Assamese film?19

, Q.S. 526 Q.S. 527 -

Manomati

Who is X?

Living Kitchen is a line of kitchenitems, which is joint design effortwith Sebastian Conran and X, andhas been around since 2003.Includes a series of classicstonewere everyday essentialsfeaturing cappuccino cups, teapotsand mixing bowls. Also featuresmelamine utensils includingcolanders, measuring cups andcitrus juicers, as well as a range ofheat-proof flameware.

20

Nigella Lawson

20

21

ID the painter and his famous art work

series X!

He is one of the famous artist of his country. He was awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956 and make history. His wife is also a famous French artist, Janine Mongillat.

His most famous artwork series is called X. The inspiration behind this artwork series have been his elementary school teacher, who drew a X on the blackboard and asked the artist to concentrate on it!

21

He is the famous Indian painter S.H.

RAZA And the artwork series is BINDU.

He is the first non-French painter to win Prix de la critique award. He won the Commandeur de la Ligion dhonneur in 2015.

22

Which event inspired Omar Syed to

create this game?

Arimaa is a board game ,invented by an Indian American computer Engineer Omar Syed in 2003. Arimaa is Amir spelled backwards plus an initial a. This invention won various award in recent times.

Arimaa is played on an 8*8 board with four trap squares. The two players, Gold and Silver, each controlled sixteen pieces. These are: One elephant, one camel, two cats andeight rabbits.

22

Garry Kasparovs defeat at the hands of

the Chess computer Deep Blue!

23

Bollywood debut of which lyricist?

Kapil Sibal

24

Just name her sister X

She (picture on next slide) was born in 1879, and was 11years older than her sister X. She attempted a career as awriter, and couldnt be successful. She wrote a play, TheClaimant, based on a real case, called the Tichborne case. Theplay enjoyed a short run in the year 1924.

She, once, challenged her sister X to write a story. Theirmother had suggested them to write stories to alleviate theboredom. Then the challenge was completed after eight yearsand her sister X wrote the first story of her career.

Agatha Christie

25In where we can see these two

paintings?

These are two paintings by Ruth Elisiv Ekeland.She is a Oslo, Norway based artist, most famous for poster and cover art design.

These are the cover art of Nobel Prize Diploma

of Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi

Which book ??

_____ ___ __ _ _______ is the sequel to famous book,

published in 1900, 11 years after the prequel was

published. The sequel has almost the same story

outline, but this time the protagonists go on a bicycle

tour through the Black Forest, Germany.

The last word in the book`s name had no translation in

English, although the writer wrote that the word meant

a journey where one had to reach home in a certain

time limit.

26

Three Men on the Bummel

27

The headquarters of the organisation is in New York City near the lowerEast 40s United Nations.

The official logo of the organisation is a black globe with some lines oflongitude and latitude. Black concentric rings surround the glob; to theright of it is a black silhouette of a man in a black suit and a black bandbeneath the globe and the man features the name of the organisation inthe Decorated 035 font. The logo is superimposed on a map of theworld continents with no country borders ( which represents theirphilosophy) and blue seas.

Which Organisation?

U.N.C.L.E. The fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement,

a secrete international intelligence agency, will be featured in the

upcoming movie THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Which product am I talking about ??

28

It all began in 1938 when an umpire complained a third basecoach about the sorry condition of the balls used by theleague. Back then a ball was prepped simply with mud madeof water and dirt from the playing field. The coach took on thechallenge. Next time he returned to his home in BurlingtonCounty, he checked out the mud along tributaries of the

Delaware River until he found some muck (the whereabouts ofthe mud hole is still a dark secret) with a texture he felt woulddo the job. He tested it and it worked like a charm! It had noodor and didn't turn the balls black. The umpires were happy,and he was soon in the business.

Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud

ID X & Y?

29

This song originated as the French song called "As Usual", written by thecomposers Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault. X discovered this songwhile visiting France and re-wrote the lyrics as Y" .This is a very popular Karaoke song, but one you should probably avoid inThe Philippines. As detailed in a February 6, 2010 article in the New YorkTimes, many violent incidents have taken place following Karaokeperformances of the song Y. So every violent Incidents related to it wasdescribed as Y Killing.Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder requested Y" for his finalsend-off. More than seven million television viewers watched tears well upin his eyes as a military band saw him off with a version of this song.

X- My Way by Frank Sinatra, Y- Paul

Anka

What is the name of this sleeve ??

30

A long, tight sleeve with a puff atthe top is a kind of sleeve that wasinspired by fashions of the ItalianRenaissance and named after X.The sleeve is popular from

the Empire period throughthe 1820s in fashion, and again inthe late 1960s under the influenceof Franco Zeffirelli film based onthe same story.

Juliet Sleeve