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Rules 20 questions coming up. Part-points are applicable whenever the situation arises. 5, 12, 14, 18, and 20 will be star-marked questions. Well use them in resolving ties, if need be. You can be without the internet for 30 minutes. Please do. Quizmasters say is the ultimatum.

1. Simple enough. Id & why do you know her?

2. FITB.FromIsaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me,__,___ _ _________, let him declare what he seeth."

3.X is an expression that means "every man for himself," "anything goes," "need of the sole outweighs the need of the many", "survival of the strongest," "survival of the fittest," "kill or be killed," "dog eat dog" and "eat or be eaten,". The phrase was used in apoembyYto describe the obligations and behaviour of a wolf in a pack. However, this use of the term has been overtaken in popularity by the other interpretations above. X, and Y?

4. William Golding Nadine GordimerJ.M.Coetzee V.S.Naipaul

Exhaustive list of what?

5*.The video gameFar Cry 2,released on October 21, 2008, is a loose, modernized adaptation ofX. The player assumes the role of a mercenary operating in Africa whose task it is to kill an arms dealer, the elusive "Jackal". The last area of the game is, as a tribute to the inspiration, left as X.Name the Place/Work.

6.Xis a pejorative term used to refer to cheap popular serial literature produced during a certain period of time in theUnited Kingdom.X was possibly named such because of the currency in which it was sold.Whilst the term X" was originally used in reference to a specific type of literature circulating at this time, it latterly encompassed a variety of publications that featured cheap sensational fiction. In the movieThe Grand Budapest Hotel, the main character, Concierge M. Gustave, mentions X when discussing his reasoning for an altercation with another inmate: "Because, if there's one thing we've learned from X, it's that when you find yourself in a place like this, you must never be a candy ass; you've got to prove yourself from day one.

7."The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax__ ________ ___ _____And why the sea is boiling hotAnd whether pigs have wings.

FITB with a 1904 novel based on a fictional Central American country written by X.

8.Pippi Longstocking was named by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school.Pippi is unconventional, assertive, and has superhuman strength, being able to lift her horse one-handed. She is playful and unpredictable. She frequently makes fun of unreasonable adult attitudes, especially when displayed by pompous and condescending adults.What character does she inspire which appears decades later (Alternatively, name the series)?

9*. The story goes that X had sent the manuscript of his semi-autographical novel based on his own childhood, to a friend atOxford, and about this time, the friend showed the manuscript toGraham Greene. Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was finally published in 1935.Greene also counseled X on shortening his name to become more familiar to the English-speaking audience. Reviews were favourable but sales were few.The book was a part of a trilogy by the author, and two of the books were published on the recommendation of Graham Greene.Identify X, of which we all have heard.

10.FITB the last line of this poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope with reference to something released in 2004.

How happy is the blameless vestals lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot._______ _________ __ ___ ________ ____Each prayr accepted, and each wish resignd.

11.The title of the novel comes from a poem's name, written in 1782 by the Scottish Poet Robert Burns. Till now, it is a popular childrens song throughout United Kingdom. The protagonist, confuses and misinterprets a part of this poems lyrics to mean "if a body catch a body" rather than "if a body meet a body, and he continuously keeps picturing this imagery.

Id the novel.

12.The author has said that he based X on his younger brother, who as a child was "a mischievous mastermind who could get out of any trouble..like a twelve-year-oldJames Bondvillain.Xis a notable choice for a name because while it is traditionally a female name, it "was [historically] sometimesgiven to boys as a kind of honorific if their fathers were great hunters. The surname is an obvious pun on the nature of X.As simple as it gets, give X.

13.Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham, John Le Carre, and __________ have all admittedly done something.In August 2015, X came out announcing in his autobiography titled The Outsider: My Life that he too, is in this list. However, due to Xs realistic portrayal style in his books, the fans had suspected this much earlier than the revelation.What connects them?

14*.X on Y :He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.Ys reply: Poor X. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I dont know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.X, Y ?

15.A 1926 poem begins thus:

That is __ ________ ___ ____ ____. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees Those dying generations at their song,The salmonfalls, the mackerelcrowded seas.

FITB with a phrase which is a 2005 novel, which was also adapted into a film which was nominated for eight Oscars, winning the Best Picture.

16.The novel describes the orientalist legend of the ______; a radical Muslim sect that terrorized the Crusaders and local Muslim rulers in many parts of the Middle East throughout the 12thand 13thcenturies.The sects name is given by Crusaders and some European travelers to the Nizari Ismaili sect, whose followers controlled a network of strongly fortified citadels and fortresses in Syria and Iran. The name comes from the widespread use of hashish among the sect members, due to which the English word ________ was formed, which literally translates to hashish users.In present times, this legend is hugely popular among teenagers and young adults, due to Y. Name X, the source material and for Y.

17.What is this poem protesting against?

Now they want to make a filmFor anyone lacking the abilityTo imagine the body, head in oven,Orphaning children

[...] they thinkI should give them my mother's wordsTo fill the mouth of their monster,Their ______ Suicide Doll

Who is the poet and who is the subject of the poem?

18.X is a plot device named by Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock describes it as: The device, the gimmick, if you will, or the papers the spies are after... The only thing that really matters is that in the picture the plans, documents or secrets must seem to be of vital importance to the characters. To me, the narrator, they're of no importance whatsoever.

What is he talking about?

19.X wrote in his autobiography about being overwhelmed by Ys non-fiction book The Kingdom of God is Within You and that it has left an abiding impression on him. X wrote to B seeking his advice and permission to republish A Letter to a Hindu in Xs native language, Gujarati. Identify X, Y.

20*.The X Effectis apriming effectthat occurs when response to acleaningcue is increased after having been induced by a feeling ofshame. In one experiment, different groups of participants were asked to recall a good or bad past deed, after which they were asked to fill in the letters of three incomplete words. Those who had been asked to recall a bad deed were about 60% more likely to respond with cleansing-related words. This was first proposed in a paper by Chen-Bo Zhong and Katie Liljenquistin their paper titled "Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing.

ANSWERS

1. Simple enough. Id & why do you know her?

Svetlana Aleixievich, Nobel Prize for Literature 2015

2. FITB.FromIsaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me,__,___ _ _________, let him declare what he seeth."

3.X is an expression that means "every man for himself," "anything goes," "need of the sole outweighs the need of the many", "survival of the strongest," "survival of the fittest," "kill or be killed," "dog eat dog" and "eat or be eaten,". The phrase was used in apoembyYto describe the obligations and behaviour of a wolf in a pack. However, this use of the term has been overtaken in popularity by the other interpretations above. X, and Y?

"NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. Rudyard Kipling

4. William Golding Nadine GordimerJ.M.Coetzee V.S.Naipaul

Exhaustive list of what?

Writers who have won both Nobel Prize and The Man Booker.

5*.The video gameFar Cry 2,released on October 21, 2008, is a loose, modernized adaptation ofX. The player assumes the role of a mercenary operating in Africa whose task it is to kill an arms dealer, the elusive "Jackal". The last area of the game is, as a tribute to the inspiration, left as X.Name the Place/Work.

6.Xis a pejorative term used to refer to cheap popular serial literature produced during a certain period of time in theUnited Kingdom.X was possibly named such because of the currency in which it was sold.Whilst the term X" was originally used in reference to a specific type of literature circulating at this time, it latterly encompassed a variety of publications that featured cheap sensational fiction. In the movieThe Grand Budapest Hotel, the main character, Concierge M. Gustave, mentions X when discussing his reasoning for an altercation with another inmate: "Because, if there's one thing we've learned from X, it's that when you find yourself in a place like this, you must never be a candy ass; you've got to prove yourself from day one.

7."The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax__ ________ ___ _____And why the sea is boiling hotAnd whether pigs have wings.

FITB with a 1904 novel based on a fictional Central American country written by X.

8.Pippi Longstocking was named by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school.Pippi is unconventional, assertive, and has superhuman strength, being able to lift her horse one-handed. She is playful and unpredictable. She frequently makes fun of unreasonable adult attitudes, especially when displayed by pompous and condescending adults.What character does she inspire which appears decades later (Alternatively, name the series)?

9*. The story goes that X had sent the manuscript of his semi-autographical novel based on his own childhood, to a friend atOxford, and about this time, the friend showed the manuscript toGraham Greene. Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was finally published in 1935.Greene also counseled X on shortening his name to become more familiar to the English-speaking audience. Reviews were favourable but sales were few.The book was a part of a trilogy by the author, and two of the books were published on the recommendation of Graham Greene.Identify X, of which we all have heard.

R.K.Narayan

10.FITB the last line of this poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope with reference to something released in 2004.

How happy is the blameless vestals lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot._______ _________ __ ___ ________ ____Each prayr accepted, and each wish resignd.

11.The title of the novel comes from a poem's name, written in 1782 by the Scottish Poet Robert Burns. Till now, it is a popular childrens song throughout United Kingdom. The protagonist, confuses and misinterprets a part of this poems lyrics to mean "if a body catch a body" rather than "if a body meet a body, and he continuously keeps picturing this imagery.

Id the novel.

12.The author has said that he based X on his younger brother, who as a child was "a mischievous mastermind who could get out of any trouble..like a twelve-year-oldJames Bondvillain.Xis a notable choice for a name because while it is traditionally a female name, it "was [historically] sometimesgiven to boys as a kind of honorific if their fathers were great hunters. The surname is an obvious pun on the nature of X.As simple as it gets, give X.

13.Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham, John Le Carre, and __________ have all admittedly done something.In August 2015, X came out announcing in his autobiography titled The Outsider: My Life that he too, is in this list. However, due to Xs realistic portrayal style in his books, the fans had suspected this much earlier than the revelation.What connects them?

X= Frederick Forsyth They have all, at some point of time, spied for CIA/British Inteligence.

14*.X on Y :He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.Ys reply: Poor X. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I dont know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.X, Y ?

X= William FaulknerY=Ernest Hemingway

15.A 1926 poem begins thus:

That is __ ________ ___ ____ ____. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees Those dying generations at their song,The salmonfalls, the mackerelcrowded seas.

FITB with a phrase which is a 2005 novel, which was also adapted into a film which was nominated for eight Oscars, winning the Best Picture.

16.The novel describes the orientalist legend of the ______; a radical Muslim sect that terrorized the Crusaders and local Muslim rulers in many parts of the Middle East throughout the 12thand 13thcenturies.The sects name is given by Crusaders and some European travelers to the Nizari Ismaili sect, whose followers controlled a network of strongly fortified citadels and fortresses in Syria and Iran. The name comes from the widespread use of hashish among the sect members, due to which the English word ________ was formed, which literally translates to hashish users.In present times, this legend is hugely popular among teenagers and young adults, due to Y. Name X, the source material and for Y.

X= Alamut by Vladimir Bartol Y= Assassins Creed (Assassin comes from the word Hashashin)

17.What is this poem protesting against?

Now they want to make a filmFor anyone lacking the abilityTo imagine the body, head in oven,Orphaning children

[...] they thinkI should give them my mother's wordsTo fill the mouth of their monster,Their ______ Suicide Doll

Who is the poet and who is the subject of the poem?

Poet is Freida Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath.

18.X is a plot device named by Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock describes it as: The device, the gimmick, if you will, or the papers the spies are after... The only thing that really matters is that in the picture the plans, documents or secrets must seem to be of vital importance to the characters. To me, the narrator, they're of no importance whatsoever.

What is he talking about?

Macguffin

19.X wrote in his autobiography about being overwhelmed by Ys non-fiction book The Kingdom of God is Within You and that it has left an abiding impression on him. X wrote to B seeking his advice and permission to republish A Letter to a Hindu in Xs native language, Gujarati. Identify X, Y.

X= GandhiY= Leo Tolstoy

20*.The X Effectis apriming effectthat occurs when response to acleaningcue is increased after having been induced by a feeling ofshame. In one experiment, different groups of participants were asked to recall a good or bad past deed, after which they were asked to fill in the letters of three incomplete words. Those who had been asked to recall a bad deed were about 60% more likely to respond with cleansing-related words. This was first proposed in a paper by Chen-Bo Zhong and Katie Liljenquistin their paper titled "Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing.

The Lady Macbeth/Macbeth Effect.