general quiz 28-10-15

40 SOMETHINGth QUIZ MEET

DELHI 42 QUIZ CLUBShivendra Tandon

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• Infinite Bounce Pounce• +10 on direct, +10/-10 on pounce• Last 4 questions are a connect

1. The film was just weeks from its scheduled premiere, but because of X was delayed until late January 1964, as it was felt that the public was in no mood for such a film any sooner.One line by Slim Pickens—"a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Y with all that stuff"—was dubbed to change “Y” to "Vegas".X also serves as another possible reason why the pie-fight scene was cut. In the scene, someone exclaims, "Gentlemen! Our __ __ __ has been struck down in his prime!" Editor Anthony Harvey stated that “The scene would have stayed, except that Columbia Pictures were horrified, and thought it would offend Z’s family.”Give me X, Y and the film.

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X: Kennedy AssassinationY: DallasFilm: Dr. Strangelove

"Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has been struck down in his prime!"

2. Nuno Espírito Santo, known as simply Nuno, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and the current manager of Valencia CF.During his career he first made a name for himself in Spain, playing for three teams in five years. He later represented Porto in his country, albeit with little impact, and also played professionally in Russia.However, arguably his biggest contribution to modern football came in 1996 when he moved from Vitória de Guimarães to Deportivo de La Coruña after a chance meeting with X in a bar in Guimarães.

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Super agent Jorge Mendes’ first transfer.

3. Whose tweet?

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4. The word X finds its origins in 1855, theater slang for "a failure in performance;" by 1862 it had acquired the general sense of "any ignominious failure or dismal flop". It comes via the French and Italian phrases, which were derived from an Italian word meaning literally "make a bottle“ or "bottle“.

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Fiasco

5. X is a 2011 American political drama film directed and written by Y, along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon. X is also a phrase that has become synonymous with a significant event in history. The phrase refers to a particular day, which was thought to have originally been ‘the day of the full moon’.

Y and X’s significance in history.

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X: The Ides of MarchY: George ClooneyCaesar’s assassination.

6. Last year the X Beauty Salon on Eversholt Street in London were forced to change their name after a women’s boutique with the same name was vandalised by a mob.The shop’s old business cards depicted an Egyptian goddess with gold-trimmed wings spread open and wearing Egyptian style head-dress.The new leaflets show an eye with the letters Y in large white letters on a black pupil background.Funda.

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7. Ruslaan Mumtaz is an Indian film and television actor. He made his Bollywood debut in 2007 with Hindi film MP3 – Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar. In 2013, He made his television debut with the role of Dhruv in Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara.However, his career path could have been very different had he not lost out on the lead role in the film X, after initially being cast for the role. The film's producer found him too good looking for the role and therefore went with Z on the suggestion of his 17 year old daughter.Give X.

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8. An odd trend appeared earlier this year in France with books about ____ flying off the shelfs.The book X in particular became one of the bestsellers in the country at the time, with sales almost tripling from the previous year’s figures.This huge demand could traced back to January, with many people wanting to learn about the topic.

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9. The X family was an Alsatian family which acquired its wealth in the textile industry and became leading industrialists and politicians of the region.The first traces of the family can be found in 1440, when Jean X moved from Stein am Rhein to Zurich, both in Switzerland. His grandson Hartmann X (1572–1611) was the first to move to Mulhouse.The X family pioneered cotton cloth manufacturing; Mulhouse became one of France’s leading textile centers in the nineteenth century.

• Samuel (1719–1776): Started a cloth printing firm in Mulhouse.

• Josué (1756–1830): First of six members to become mayor of Mulhouse.

• André (1789–1875): Under his lead, the company became the leading textile company of Mulhouse.

• Nicolas (1781–1852): Installation of railway lines in Alsace.

• Paul (1852–1907): Winner of one of the earliest automobile race's in the world, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race.

• Maurice (1856–1946): Engineer who worked closely together with Gustave Eiffel.

• Y (1984-present): Award winning actress.

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Koechlin

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11. "Ding-Dong! The _ _ _" is the centerpiece of several individual songs in an extended set-piece performed by the Munchkin characters, Glinda (Billie Burke) and Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.In April 2013, it saw a huge surge in popularity and reached it’s highest position of number 2 in UK Singles Chart.The BBC, however, did not play the track in full on Radio 1 during The Official Chart on Sunday 14 April, but would carry a news item explaining why the song was in the charts during which a short clip would be played. The move prompted accusations of censorship, heightened by the BBC's status as a publicly funded broadcaster.Give Funda.

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Margaret Thatcher’s death.

12. Mohan Meakin is a large group of companies started with Asia's first brewery incorporated in 1855 at Kasauli under the name Y Breweries. Lion Beer is the main brand first sold by Y Breweries in the 1840s and remained the number one beer in India for over a century from the 1840s until the 1960s.Today, Mohan Meakin's principal brands are Old Monk Rum and Golden Eagle Beer.Even though the Y family established the brewery and ran it for many years, the name Y is famous (or rather infamous) because of the actions of one of its members, known as X Y, in the early nineteenth century.Ironically, the name X Y, by which we know this person, itself is a misnomer.

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General Dyer.He was a Colonel, who was given temporary charge as a Brigadier General.

13. On the evening of 24 January 1972, Shiochi Yokoi, a 57 year old man, was discovered in a jungle on the island of Guam by two local men checking their shrimp traps along a small river on Talofofo. They had assumed Yokoi was a villager from Talofofo, but he thought his life was in danger and attacked them. They managed to subdue him and carried him out of the jungle with minor bruising."It is with much embarrassment, but I have returned", he said upon his return to Japan. The remark would become a popular saying in Japanese.After a whirlwind media tour of Japan, he married and became a popular television personality and an advocate of austere living.

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He was a Japanese WW2 soldier and had been hiding in a cave in Guam since 1944, when the American forces captured the island.

14. Henry Calthorpe X is an English sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has authored eight books to date.His father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe X, 1903–1986) was at Eton with Y and his name is believed to have been the inspiration for the name of supervillain Ernst Stavro X. Many of X’s characteristics have become trends of supervillains in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the evil genius. One of these in particular has been parodied several times, including in movies such as Austin Powers and Inspector Gadget.X and Y.

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X: BlofeldY: Ian Fleming

15. Though the origins of the name have never been confirmed, the character’s name could have conceivably been derived from the Sanskrit word for warrior, or the Hebrew word Y meaning "one who knows.“Originally named ‘Buffy’ or Bunden Debannen, the character was later renamed Minch X before eventually being named X.Which character?

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Sanskrit: Yodha Hebrew: Yodea

16. In June 2007, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Mirek Topolánek arrived in Pakistan for an official visit.However, the visit became a source of much embarrassment for the Pakistan authorities because of a banner which was supposed to welcome him, but instead suggested that he had reached the end of his journey.What was wrong with the banner?

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They printed a Chequered flag instead of the Czech Flag.

17. The word X comes from the Arabic word Y, denoting a substance which could turn lower metals into gold/silver.Initially, Y was synonymous with ‘al-kimiya’ (Alchemy). Then ‘al-kimiya’ became became the ‘Art of transmutation’ and Y was the ‘ Agent of transmutation’.Living beings could also attain such perfection, which is where the word X gets its current meaning.Which word?

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Elixir

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18. On April 28 2011, S. Victor Whitmill filed a motion in Federal District Court in St. Louis asking a judge to order Warner Brothers to stop using what he calls his 'tribal _____' in its posters or in the movie. That would effectively block the film from being released, or at least delay it until further editing.Whitmill, who created the original ____ and registered the copyright, sued in April asking that a federal judge halt the release of the blockbuster comedy sequel because it prominently features the ______ without permission. As we noted when the case was filed, copyrighted works are copyrighted works, no matter whether they are painted on canvases or walls or the bodies of former sportsmen.

A notice of dismissal was filed in June , putting an end to one of the odder copyright cases in recent memory.

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Ed Helms’ Mike Tyson tattoo in Hangover 2CONNECT: Ed Helms

19. Paul Giamatti was suggested for the role of X, but the actor declined. Martin Short and Hank Azaria were also reported to be interested. In January 2004, Variety reported Y was in talks to play the role. At the time, he was already committed to another NBC comedy, Come to Papa.

Due to Y being unavailable, Bob Odenkirk was selected as X and was part of the cast presented to NBC executives. However, Come to Papa was quickly canceled, allowing Y to commit to the show. Y later stated he had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned. He did not continue watching for fear that he would start copying Z’s characterizations.

Rainn Wilson, who was cast for another role, had originally auditioned for X, a performance that he described as a "terrible Z impersonation". Give Y, Z and the show.

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Y: Steve Carell (CONNECT)Z: Ricky Gervais/ David BrentThe Office

20. Tranquility, also known as Node 3, is a module of the International Space Station (ISS).NASA held an online poll to name Node 3. Users were allowed to choose from among four provided names (Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity, and Venture), or to suggest their own. In early voting, fans of the science fiction TV series Firefly boosted "Serenity", also the name of the show's film and eponymous spacecraft. In March 2009, X instructed his fans to suggest “X" as the name for Node 3 in the online poll."X" won the poll by more than 40,000 votes. The naming contest rules, however, stated that although the poll results will be taken into account, NASA has ultimate discretion in choosing an appropriate name for the node.X threatened a lawsuit if the node was not named after him and was supported by a US congressman.As a compromise, NASA named a space treadmill that would lie in Node 3 after X, making it the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being.

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Stephen Colbert

21. Partial Filmography of?

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Jon Stewart

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