Rebound- The General Quiz

FINALS

RULES-1. 30 questions in the finals.12 clockwise and 12 anti- clockwise. Plus, one written round.2. Standard bounce and pounce.3.+15/-10 on pounce. +10 on bounce.4.The decision of QM is final and binding.

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2. Born in early 18th century in Italy, X was an Italian adventurer and author from Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie(Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, X is ‘remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made his synonymous with “libertine.”’ Identify.

Giacomo Casanova

3. X was modeled after one of his creators, Y. “He was me!” Y said. “He was irascible, he was bad tempered, he was dumb, he thought he was better than he was. He was the version that so many people had of me!”. Y also expressed a desire to play X in a movie. Ironically, he went on to make an appearance in the movie with X but he didn't play the role of X.

X- J Jonah Jameson Y- Stan Lee

4. This symbol first made its appearance in a newspaper illustration during the Civil War (when “seeing the X” was an expression used by soldiers to mean experiencing combat), but it didn’t start to take hold as a symbol until Thomas Nast, who’s considered the father of the modern political cartoon, used it in an 1874 Harper’s Weekly cartoon. Titled “The Third-Term Panic,” Nast’s drawing mocked the New York Herald, which had been critical of President Ulysses Grant’s rumored bid for a third term, Nast employed the X to represent an entity in additional cartoons during the 1870s, and by 1880 other cartoonists were using the same to symbolize that entity. What symbol?

Republican Elephant

5. What moniker was given to this football match?

Battle Of Nuremberg

6. The X tree is a slow growing shrub with sharp-tapered leaves, indigenous to the desert in the American southwest. It was named by a group of 19th Century Mormons. The shrub's unique shape reminded them of the Biblical story of X reaching out to the heavens in prayer. It was used on the album cover of Y. The cover photo, snapped by Anton Corbijn, proved a perfect foil to the grand rock hymnals on the album. In 2000, it fell over and died and Y fans have since built a makeshift shrine to commemorate the famous tree. Name X and Y.

X- The Joshua Tree Y- U2

7. The Battle of X was fought before the Tirah Campaign on 12 September 1897 between twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs(now the 4th Battalion of the Sikh Regiment) of British India, defending an army post, and 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen. It is considered by some military historians as one of history's great last-stands. Sikh military personnel and Sikh civilians commemorate the battle every year on 12 September, as X Day as the battle was given the honour of a regimental holiday.X?

Saragarhi

8. Stiff Records label offshoot Magic Records released a LP in 1981 titled ‘The Wit And Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan’. It sold over 30,000 copies. What was unique about it?

Blank On Both Sides!

9. J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist _____________, ____________________ Peter Carey, Oscar & Lucinda Pat Barker, The Ghost Road J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace

10. X is known as the magnum opus of this very famous Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age painting era, Y. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called one of the great prophets of civilization. There has been several acts of vandalism against this famous work of art. In 1911 a man slashed the painting with a shoemaker's knife. You can relate this painting with a very famous fantasy-fictional military faction which requires all its men to practice celibacy and repudiate any kind of inheritance.X and Y?

X – The Night Watch, Y- Rembrandt

11.In 1837, the Marquis of Waterford—a known lush and mischief maker—led a group of friends on a night of drinking through the English town of Melton Mowbray. The bender culminated in vandalism after Waterford and his fellow revelers knocked over flowerpots, pulled knockers off of doors and broke the windows of some of the town’s buildings. To top it all off, the mob literally painted a tollgate. The marquis and his pranksters later compensated Melton for the damages, but their drunken escapade is likely the reason that this phrase became shorthand for a wild night out. What’s the phrase?

Paint The Town Red

12.X was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison.He did not receive the nickname “X" until his school days, when it is claimed he was given it because of his pronunciation of the name of his favorite player, local Vasco da Gama goalkeeper, Biilé, which he misspoke. In his autobiography, X stated he had no idea what the name means, nor did his old friends. Apart from the assertion that the name is derived from that of Biilé, and that it is Hebrew for "miracle," the word has no known meaning in Portuguese. X?

13. The ______ effect (also known as ______ Syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game _____. People who play ______ for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street.

The Tetris Effect

14. . X was a Chicago businessman who pioneered soup kitchens to feed the poor during the Depression. In a bid to corner the market for milk in Chicago, as a result of a member of his family falling ill due to expired milk, he had the Chicago City Council pass a law mandating expiration dates on milk bottles, and acquired his own milk processor, Meadowmoor Dairies. Identify X.

Al Capone

15. Camp David Accords ,signed by Egyptian President X, and Israeli Prime Minister Y in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. It was signed following 12 days of negotiations at Camp David and was witnessed by US President Carter. Name both the leaders who also jointly received the 1978 Nobel peace prize for this historic treaty.(Image On Next Slide)

X- Anwar El Sadat , Y- Menachem Begin

16. If Air India had the Maharaja, then who was it for Air Deccan?

#kolstylz

17. The large numbers of those who participated in the armed struggle or the non-cooperation movement could not be accommodated in ordinary jails. The British Government decided to establish a few detention camps; the first one was located in Buxar Fort followed by the creation of Hijli Detention Camp in 1930. A significant moment in the struggle against British rule occurred at here in 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar Mitra and TarakeswarSengupta, were shot dead by the British .The firing which later known as "Hijli firing" is the only incident of police firing inside a jail/detention camp.Today, the camp is known for something else entirely. What is it?

IIT Kharagpur. Now called Shaheed Bhavan, the Hijli Detention Camp building was the birthplace of IIT Kharagpur.

18.During its course of use, it was given several nicknames, some of which are the following-

La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb) Le Rasoir National (The National Razor) Le Vasistas or La Lucarne (The Fanlight) La Veuve (The Widow) Le Moulin à Silence (The Mill of Silence) La Bécane (The Machine) La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique (The Patriotic Shortener) La demi-lune (The Half-Moon) Les Bois de Justice (Wooden Justice)

What is being talked about?

Guillotine

19. In 1965, Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 from friend Peter Buck to start a company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and in the following year they formed Doctor's Associates Inc. to oversee operations of the restaurants as the franchise expanded. The holding company derives its name from DeLuca's goal to earn enough from the business to pay tuition for medical school, as well as Buck's having a doctorate in physics. At the end of 2010, this company became the largest fast food chain worldwide.Name the company.

20. X also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture, receiving 300,000 visits a day.X is organized by topic and includes a message board where stories and pictures of questionable veracity may be posted.The name ‘X’ refers to the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner.X‘s popular standing is such that some chain e-mail hoaxes claim to have been "checked out on X.com" in an attempt to discourage readers from seeking verification.Id.

21. Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To dance by spinning on one foot came naturally to her. On one of her school functions, her talent was spotted by Mr. Padmasee, a reputed film maker who approached her mother and said “We just want her to do the spin, like she does so gracefully. The small twist would be counterbalanced by a jingle. She does the move, packs her bags, gets the cheque and leaves. Think of it, she’s going to be the first_________”. FITB.

Nirma Girl

22. The history of the practice is said to date back at least 100 years to Serbia during World War I, to the bridge Most Ljubavi (lit. the Bridge of Love) in the spa town of Vrnjačka Banja.A local schoolmistress named Nada, who was from Vrnjačka Banja, fell in love with a Serbian officer named Relja. After they committed to each other Relja went to war in Greece where he fell in love with a local woman from Corfu. As a consequence, Relja and Nada broke off their engagement. Nada never recovered from that devastating blow, and after some time she died due to heartbreak from her unfortunate love.As young girls from Vrnjačka Banja wanted to protect their own loves, they started doing something and the custom of Xs began.Since the early 2000s, the tradition of Xs have spread all over and world, but it is most prominently visible on the bridges of Paris, where they are viewed by locals as not a sign of love, but as a sign of vandalism of historical structures. What practice?

Love Locks or Love padlocks

23. The _______________________was an influential group of modern artists, mainly based in Bombay, from its formation in 1947. It was formed by six founder members, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade, and S. K. Bakre (the only sculptor in the group). The group wished to break with the revivalist nationalism established by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde, engaged at an international level.

Bombay Progressive Artists' Group

24. Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" is an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune. X used the essay in its entirety, turning it into his hit single, popularly known as "The Y Song". However, X and his team didn't realise that Schmich was the actual author of the speech until they sought out permission to use the lyrics. They believed it was written by Z. While no one knows the originator of the urban legend, the story goes that Z's wife had received an E-mail in early August 1997 that purported to reprint a commencement speech Z had given at MIT. The purported speech became a viral sensation, bouncing around the world through E-mail and this is how X discovered the text. For Z , the " Y controversy" cemented his belief that the Internet was not worth trusting, "I don't know what the point is except how gullible people are on the Internet."

X = ActivisionY=Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2X = ActivisionY=Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2

X- Baz Luhrmann, Y- Sunscreen, Z – Kurt Vonnegut

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1. X was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March

1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He combined qualities that made him appear almost superhuman to his contemporaries: his longevity, his ambition, his extraordinary skills at organization, his battlefield acumen and his political perspicuity. Umberto Eco’s novel Baudolino (2000) is set partly at X's court, and also deals with the mystery of his death. X?

+60/-40

2. X,born Temüjin, was the founder of the Mongol Empire. He is considered by many to be a genocidal ruler, estimated to have killed 40 million people. X is also credited with bringing the Silk Road under one cohesive political environment. A short story titled, The Private Life of X was written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.

+50/-30

3. X was a Kurd born in Tikrit, Iraq in 1137. In 1174 he became Sultan of both Egypt and Syria after the death of Nur ad-Din, who was once his political rival and once-mentor. He was the founder of Ayyubid dynasty, although it was named after his father. He appears in a sympathetic light in Walter Scott’s novel The Talisman(1825).X?

+40/-20

4. X, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age. Mark Twain wrote a novel titled Personal Recollections Of X, which is little remembered but was considered by Twain to be his finest.X?

+30/-10

5. X was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Since his death, he has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston, and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians.He is the protagonist of Blind Harry’s 15th-century epic poem The _________.

+20

Answers

1. X was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March

1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He combined qualities that made him appear almost superhuman to his contemporaries: his longevity, his ambition, his extraordinary skills at organization, his battlefield acumen and his political perspicuity. Umberto Eco’s novel Baudolino (2000) is set partly at X's court, and also deals with the mystery of his death. X?

+60/-40

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

2. X,born Temüjin, was the founder of the Mongol Empire. He is considered by many to be a genocidal ruler, estimated to have killed 40 million people. X is also credited with bringing the Silk Road under one cohesive political environment. A short story titled, The Private Life of X was written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.

+50/-30

Genghis Khan

3. X was a Kurd born in Tikrit, Iraq in 1137. In 1174 he became Sultan of both Egypt and Syria after the death of Nur ad-Din, who was once his political rival and once-mentor. He was the founder of Ayyubid dynasty, although it was named after his father. He appears in a sympathetic light in Walter Scott’s novel The Talisman(1825).X?

+40/-20

Saladin

4. X, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age. Mark Twain wrote a novel titled Personal Recollections Of X, which is little remembered but was considered by Twain to be his finest.X?

+30/-10

Joan Of Arc

5. X was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Since his death, he has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston, and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians.He is the protagonist of Blind Harry’s 15th-century epic poem The _________.

+20

William Wallace

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