SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ

(FINALS)

RULESbullBOUNCE

bullAnswer on your first guess mdash I give you 10 points Answer wrongly mdash You will be mocked Remain silent mdash I will let the question walk away from you unscathed

bullPOUNCE

bullAnswer on your first guess mdash I let you pass 10 points richer Answer wrongly mdash I attack and steal 5 points Remain silent mdash You can try it on the bounce

bullAll Questions unless otherwise indicated are on Pounce

bullQuizmaster can summon fearsome Greek monsters

bullBonus Titles (except for one case) are cryptic clues

Q1 CONNECT

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A1

Lietmotifs

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

RULESbullBOUNCE

bullAnswer on your first guess mdash I give you 10 points Answer wrongly mdash You will be mocked Remain silent mdash I will let the question walk away from you unscathed

bullPOUNCE

bullAnswer on your first guess mdash I let you pass 10 points richer Answer wrongly mdash I attack and steal 5 points Remain silent mdash You can try it on the bounce

bullAll Questions unless otherwise indicated are on Pounce

bullQuizmaster can summon fearsome Greek monsters

bullBonus Titles (except for one case) are cryptic clues

Q1 CONNECT

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A1

Lietmotifs

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

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A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q1 CONNECT

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A1

Lietmotifs

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A1

Lietmotifs

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A1

Lietmotifs

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q2 DrsquoACCORD The drag experienced by supersonic objects is strongly related to the wing span As a result very short span and thin rectangular wings were used in early supersonic aircraft which however didnrsquot provide enough lift at low speed (ie during take-off and landing) To avoid compensating for this with large fuel guzzling engines Dietrich Kuchemann suggested a ldquoslender deltardquo concept which would generate the required lift at low speeds This alternative however required that the aircraft be heavily angled or ldquonose highrdquo during landings and take-offs This lead to which comic aircraft design feature

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

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A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A2

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q3

Inspiration

(Artist is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A3

Arcimboldorsquos Vertumnus

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q4 An apocryphal origin of this phrase appears to arise Queen Elizabeth I was pleased by a poem by Edmund Spenser She told her treasurer to pay him one hundred pounds However the treasurer differed stating that this sum was too high prompting her to respond ldquoThen give him what is reasonrdquo implying reducing it to a reasonable sum Offended Spenser responded with the following rhyming quatrain

ldquoI was promisd on a time

To have a ______ ___ __ _____

From that time unto this season

I receivd __ _____ ___ ______rdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A4

I was promisd on a timeTo have a reason for my rhymeFrom that time unto this seasonI receivd nor rhyme nor reason

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q5 HOMAGE REFERENCE ltVideogt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A5

Alfred Hitchcock - Birds

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q6 MY LOVEhellip

The lander that accompanies the ESArsquos Rosetta probe (designed to land on the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko) has been named X This name originates from X Island on the Nile where an obelisk was found and used along with the Rosetta stone in order to decipher hieroglyphics X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A6

Philae

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q7 PRATCHETT The term X arose from the chorus of a song by G H MacDermott and G W Hunt around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877ndash1878)

We dont want to fight but by _____ if we do Weve got the ships weve got the men weve got the money too Weve fought the Bear before and while were Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople

The phrase by _______ was used to avoid saying by Jesus However due to this song the word X (a derivative of the blank) acquired a totally different meaning X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A7

Jingoism Jingo

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q8 HINDU-BUDDHIST BHAI BHAI The Avatamsaka Sutra uses the metaphor of Xrsquos Y to describe the interconnectedness and dependent origin of the universe (highlighted in Buddhist philosophy) in the following paragraph

ldquoFar away in the abode of X there is a wonderful Y which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the Y and since the Y itself is infinite in dimension the jewels are infinite in number There hang the jewels glittering like stars in the first magnitude a wonderful sight to behold If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net infinite in number Not only that but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurringrdquo

Xrsquos Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A8

Indrarsquos Net

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q9 ONCE A DUKE ALWAYS A DUKE In the 1952 Olympics ________s Josy Barthel won gold in the 1500m Since it hadnrsquot been expected that this country would win a medal in the Olympics at all the band hadnrsquot been provided the score for this countryrsquos anthem and as a result had to improvise a few bars of a fake anthem Which country suffered this piece of silliness

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A9

Luxembourg

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q10 On May 26 1947 the FBI issued a memo stating With regard to the picture X [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge-type so that he would be the most hated man in the picture This according to these sources is a common trick used by Communists [In] addition [redacted] stated that in his opinion this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters Which iconic movie

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A10

Itrsquos a Wonderful Life

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q11 FIDELITYhellip Boeing had need for testing a certain ldquoservicerdquo that various airlines nowadays offer on their planes To test their ideal design they needed to simulate an aircraft full of people However since it was patently impossible to ask several people to sit still for days while data was being collected they needed an alternative Potatoes because of their chemistry dielectric properties and water content were discovered to be a good enough approximation of human beingsrsquo response to this ldquoservicerdquo As a result rows and rows of potato sacks were used to emulate a full airplane What ldquoservicerdquo is this that would be affected by the presence of people

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A11

In-flight WiFi

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q12 TRIPLE CENTURY

According to the Greek historian Herodotus Xrsquos first attempt to bridge the Hellespont for his invasion ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges In retaliation X ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water In what must have pleased X to no end his second crossing was successful Which arrogant king

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A12

Xerxes I

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q13 CONNECT

>

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A13

Streisand Effect

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q14

Xrsquos famous tomb has never been opened despite its surrounding complex having been discovered in 1974 It is believed that the tomb contains an entire underground kingdom and palace complete with a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars The tomb is also believed to be encircled with rivers of mercury due to the ancient belief that it could bestow immortality Ironically it is believed that X died at 39 due to his habit of ingesting mercury pills to attain immortality Whose famous unopened underground tomb is being talked about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A14 Qin Shi Huang

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q15

When Sergio Leonersquos A Fistful of Dollars was released in Japan around 1964 the prominent Japanese film critic Yodogawa Nagaharu said ldquospaghettis are thin and meagrerdquo and instead gave the genre of Spaghetti Westerns an alternative name which has stuck in Japan What alternative

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A15

Macaroni Westerns

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q16 ANTARES

From 1976 through 1989 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist for Exxon Production Research and Landmark Graphics a company he co-founded to create the worlds first stand-alone seismic data interpretation workstation Hildebrand specialized in seismic data exploration using sound waves and advanced signal processing to map the underground However his invention was eventually used for another highly controversial purpose Which invention

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A16

Autotune

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q17 In the Prose Edda a tale states that two children by the names of Hjuacuteki and Bil who were once walking from the well Byrgir carrying on their shoulders the pole Simul that held the pail Saeligg between them when the moon Maacuteni took them from the earth and they now follow Maacuteni in the heavens It is believed that this is a Norse attempt to explain the moonrsquos craters However this tale in turn has (according to one theory) supposedly inspired something far more mundane that is familiar to many youngsters What did this tale supposedly inspired HINT Look at the childrenrsquos names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A17

Jack and Jill

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q18

Id Woodcut and

Artist

HINT on next slide

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

HINT Artistrsquos comment on this Some of the builders are white and others black The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to ________________ Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction the building has been shown from above as though from a birds eye view

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A18

MC Escherrsquos Tower of Babel

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q19 JESUShellip

Who about what It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system I never went into that bit about what he really meant like people are doing with the ____lsquos work Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the _____ was the bad guy in the story and the _______ was the good guy I thought Oh shit I picked the wrong guy I should have said _______________ But that wouldnt have been the same would it

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A19

John Lennon ldquoI am the Walrusrdquo

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q20 The idea of historical contingency implies that small random events may cause history to change course resulting in different outcomes For example apocryphally Louis XIV was born only because a freak snowstorm forced his father to seek shelter at his estranged wifersquos chateau This idea was also pondered by Blaise Pascal in his Penseacutees ldquo________rsquos ____ had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changedrdquo with the idea that the Roman Republicsrsquo civil wars wouldrsquove been avoided if _______rsquos _____ had been shorter Who and what famous appendage of theirs

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A20

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q21 BEAUTIFUL WORLD Which singer famous for adding hidden tracks and easter eggs in his albums cynically added a hidden message track Outro Message which consists of 28 minutes of silence after which he says ldquoNo Irsquom not doing one on this albumrdquo

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A21

Robbie Williams in Sing When Yoursquore Winning

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q22

During the Battle of Cer (15ndash24 August 1914) a Serbian aviator encountered an Austro-Hungarian plane while performing a reconnaissance mission over Austro-Hungarian positions The Austro-Hungarian pilot initially waved while the Serbian pilot reciprocated The follow up to this friendly banter led to what distinction being garnered by this incident

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A22

First ever recorded dogfight

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q23THE ARTICLES STATE THAThellip Bahamas and Gambia are the only two nations with what distinction Hint The distinction troubles no-one but extremely fussy pedantic obsessive compulsive writers or people in charge of advising governments on procedures protocols titles and names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A23

These are the only nations whose names officially begins with ldquoTherdquo

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q24 NOT QUITE MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf Admiral Chester Nimitz sent the following message to Admiral Halsey

ldquoTURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERSrdquo

The beginning and the end of the message was padding to disrupt cryptanalysis however in the final message the ending was not removed forcing Halsey (commander of Task Force 34) to read ldquoWhere is Task Force 34 The World wondersrdquo Halsey who had until that point been pursuing a Japanese Carrier group thought the message was a biting criticism of his actions and immediately turned around in a futile attempt to help US forces fighting in Samar as part of the same mission What reason linked to the literary world was the cause for Halseyrsquos reaction

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A24

Flashd all their sabres bare Flashd as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there Charging an army while All the world wonderd

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q25

Which internet law is named after the creator of the first wiki The law states The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question its to post the wrong answerldquo (last name is sufficient)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A25

Cunninghamrsquos Law

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT In various parts of Japan one would frequently find fist-sized orange balls (called bohan yo kara boru) with the clerks behind bank counters and convenience store counters However these balls are never for sale ndash indeed the company selling them tends to keep a low profile and legitimate users are given this purchasing information by the police What are these balls used for instead

(Picture on next slide)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A26

They are anti-crime paintballs ndash intended to mark a robber fleeing from the scene for easy arrest

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q27

What does the caution sign cheekily say

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A27

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q28 Isaac Asimov imagined the ________ _____ as a fictional device for his Robots that sounded technically advanced but was practically impossible As a professor Asimov realised this inherent flaw and hence was deliberately vague about the technical details of a ________ _____ except to say that it involved an alloy of Platinum and Iridium However one of his chief reasons for using a ________ _____ was to add an Achilles Heel to his robots meaning that very simple everyday devices could have been used to destroy rogue robots This reason was forgotten subsequently (after Caves of Steel) and was also not employed by various other science fiction franchises (notably Star Trek) that used the idea of ________ _____ FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A28

Positronic Brain

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q29

In Chamula Mexico the Tzotzil Indians are fiercely divided on a question of religious doctrine Their sacred drink pox is supposed to cleanse the soul the more pox one drinks the greater the purification However local elites (wielding economic and political power) have convinced the faithful that pox should be drunk with X or Y that are supposed to induce burping releasing evil from the soul Whether X or Y is the reason for this divide X amp Y

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A29

Coca-Cola and Pepsi

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q30

X was one of the most popular games that shipped automatically with another product Y However X was last seen in the 2001 version of Y Although it was believed that this was due to legal issues it was instead revealed that the future versions of Y did not come with X as while porting from 32-bit to 64-bit X displayed crippling problems Since X had been licensed from a third company and the code contained no comments X was removed instead of doing all the hard work of debugging it X (no points for Y)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A30

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q31

Lohengrin is a German opera composed by Richard Wagner It tells the tale of a wronged woman Elsa who is rescued by a mysterious Knight of the Swan after her brother a Duke is (unknown to anyone else) turned into a swan by an evil witch This opera inspired the name for King Ludwigrsquos New Swan Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle However this opera is more famous for something completely different What

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A31

Here comes the bride

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q32

The Eiffel Tower was tremendously unpopular among 19th Century French artists who claimed that its ugly profile destroyed the beauty of Paris The newspaper Le Temps published a protest signed by Charles Gounod X Alexandre Dumas Charles Garnier and many others The famous author X was so disgusted by the tower that he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile X

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A32

Guy de Maupassant

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q33 The following is a list of episodes of the first Hitchhikerrsquos Guide to the Galaxy radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Fit the First (8 March 1978) Fit the Second (15 March 1978) Fit the Third (22 March 1978) Fit the Fourth (29 March 1978) Fit the Fifth (5 April 1978) Fit the Sixth (12 April 1978) Fit the Seventh (24 December 1978) Fit the Eighth (21 January 1980) Fit the Ninth (22 January 1980) Fit the Tenth (23 January 1980) Fit the Eleventh (24 January 1980) Fit the Twelfth (25 January 1980)

What is the literary allusion behind these episode names

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A33

Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q34

The Methuen Treaty was a military and commercial treaty between Portugal and England signed in 1703 as part of the War of the Spanish Succession It confirmed the Portuguese support to the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne The terms of the Treaty allowed English woollen cloth to be admitted into Portugal free of duty In return Portuguese wines imported into England would be subject to a third less duty than wines imported from France Due to these commercial terms what product provides the treatyrsquos alternate name

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A34

Port Wine Treaty

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q35 Some employees at Warner Brothers used to get lost commuting from Southeast US to Hollywood due to a confusing junction in New Mexico This was because Route 66 which lead into California angles slightly to the right after passing downtown X paralleling the river Just after the X Country Club (depicted rather prominently) it makes a left turn to approach the crossing of the Rio Grande However people would instinctively miss this turn and go on to the right ending up in the New Mexico boondocks This led to an inside joke at Warner Bros which led to the origin of what famous phrase

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A35

ldquoShould have made a left toin at Albukoykeerdquo

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q36

Which football competition has featured teams such as the Karachi Koalas rUNSwift Mostly Harmless Austrian-Kangaroos The Three Musketeers UPennalizers BORG WrightEagle among many more HINT The inaugural edition was held in 1997 in Nagoya Japan

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A36

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q37 CHAPOORS AT NO 42 Who is this speaker launching his Recession Party in 2009 ltaudio clipgt

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A37

Jaspal Bhatti

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q38

The TRPV1 receptor is a neural receptor protein in human skin Also known as the capsaicin receptor it works in the detection and regulation of body temperature Thus it reacts with pain to the stimulus of capsaicin (chilli) temperatures gt42OC and acids However presence of alcohol reduces this temperature threshold to 34OC What everyday problem does this last fact cause

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A38

This is why spirit alcohol applied on wounds causes burning sensation (as the bodyrsquos own temperature triggers the receptor)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q39 The creation mythologies of which culture are termed as the Five Suns mythos According to this there had been four worlds or ldquoSunsrdquo before the present universe These 4 worlds were destroyed due to the following reasons (chronologically) 1 Everyone gets eaten by Jaguars2 Everyone is turned into monkeys and then blown away

by a huge hurricane3 A brooding grief stricken ldquosunrdquo answers peoplersquos

prayers for rain to end an enormous drought with a downpour of fire until the earth is burnt to ashes

4 The ldquosunrdquo is tricked into believing her love for the people to be fake and hence cries blood for 52 years drowning everybody

Which culture

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A39

Aztec Culture

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q40

A ________ was a medieval unit of time The movement of a shadow on a sundial covered 40 __________ in a solar hour which however was 112th of the dayrsquos length and since the length of the days was variable was not equivalent to the modern hour FITB

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A40

A moment

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q41

The Seinfeld episode ldquoThe Contestrdquo is considered to be one of the most famous episodes It tackled a highly controversial topic without using the word __________ throughout its broadcast instead settling for euphemisms such as ldquoAre you still master of your domainrdquo For this achievement the episode was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a comedy series So what was the contest about

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A41

Who could abstain from masturbation the longest

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q42 In 1940 Raymond Lemaire and Richard Stewart founded a company based in Honolulu named Service Games In 1951 they moved the company to Tokyo to develop and distribute coin-operated jukeboxes games and slot machines Within a few years Service Games began importing these machines to American military bases throughout Japan In 1954 David Rosen an American officer in the Air Force formed Rosen Enterprises and by 1965 Rosen Enterprises grew to a chain of over 200 arcades with Service Games its only competitor The two companies then merged to give what famous entity

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

I spy with my little eyeAn answer on the next slide

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A42

SEGA Enterprises

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Riddle me this

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

RULES

Written Round 6 questions +10 each

Each question is a riddle

Clues are scattered within this riddle

There is some amount of wordplay

All answers lead to a real life personality

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

XCHG

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q1

What you see I did it all in reverse

Wished I to fly or my vessel submerse

Foiled by time but not my grinning girl

The last dinner had I being too cerebral

Bastard I was servant in many realms

Died I in the ex-dauphinrsquos arms

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A1

Leonardo da Vinci

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q2

When born my mother wished me to Bake

Fated instead I was many hearts to break

Briefly a Yankee I wed took I not his name

For itchy and touchy was I with my fame

Men loved me with preference for my hair

That it was fake they werenrsquot aware

Death I swallowed young however it came

God me or the world arenrsquot all to blame

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A2

Marilyn Monroe

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q3

Krishnarsquos slave I worshipped laterally

Championing everyone unequivocally

Shiva recorded my every move unfailingly

Out of a train and the warring peace

To the colour blue and securing Indian release

Much more than avuncular for big and small

Ate I very little and wore nought at all

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A3

Mahatma Gandhi

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q4

Little was I if some you believe

But the biggest slice did I thieve

Success I found everywhere I turned

But in the Iberian peninsula I first burned

The north-eastern cold turned my tail

Until unable was I to ably prevail

Outed I was by a ducal boot and an engine of steam

A hundred days alone for my resurrected dream

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q5

Serbian my origin humble my end

lsquoGainst a ruthless enemy my honour to defend

I earned my prestige the hard way

No whacky car to make it childrsquos play

My Warden never stood on no Cliff top

And a magnetic name was my sole sop

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A5

Nikola Tesla

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

Q6

Murderer of an innocuous salesperson am I

McCarthyrsquos witch hunt I criticized on the sly

I saw too far while grinding extremely fine

If I saw from the bridge the fault ainrsquot mine

I played far and I played near

My Pulitzer I held quite dear

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)

A6

Arthur Miller

• SPHINX ndash THE GENERAL QUIZ (FINALS)
• RULES
• Q1 CONNECT
• Slide 4
• A1
• Q2 DrsquoAccord
• Slide 7
• A2
• Q3
• Slide 10
• A3
• Q4
• Slide 13
• A4
• Q5 Homage Reference
• Slide 16
• A5
• Q6 My Lovehellip
• Slide 19
• A6
• Q7 Pratchett
• Slide 22
• A7
• Q8 Hindu-Buddhist bhai bhai
• Slide 25
• A8
• Q9 Once a duke always a duke
• Slide 28
• A9
• Q10
• Slide 31
• A10
• Q11 fidelityhellip
• Slide 34
• a11
• Q12 Triple century
• Slide 37
• A12
• Q13 CONNECT
• Slide 40
• A13
• Q14
• Slide 43
• A14
• Q15
• Slide 46
• A15
• Q16 Antares
• Slide 49
• A16
• Q17
• Slide 52
• A17
• Q18
• Slide 55
• Slide 56
• A18
• Q19 jEsushellip
• Slide 59
• A19
• Q20
• Slide 62
• A20
• Q21 beautiful world
• Slide 65
• A21
• Q22
• Slide 68
• A22
• Q23The ARTICLES STATE THAThellip
• Slide 71
• A23
• Q24 Not quite modern major general
• Slide 74
• A24
• Q25
• Slide 77
• A25
• Q26 OUT DAMNED SPOT
• Slide 80
• Slide 81
• A26
• Q27
• Slide 84
• A27
• Q28
• Slide 87
• A28
• Q29
• Slide 90
• A29
• Q30
• Slide 93
• A30
• Q31
• Slide 96
• A31
• Q32
• Slide 99
• A32
• Q33
• Slide 102
• A33
• Q34
• Slide 105
• A34
• Q35
• Slide 108
• A35
• Q36
• Slide 111
• A36
• Q37 Chapoors at no 42
• Slide 114
• A37
• Q38
• Slide 117
• A38
• Q39
• Slide 120
• A39
• Q40
• Slide 123
• A40
• Q41
• Slide 126
• A41
• Q42
• Slide 129
• A42
• Slide 131
• RULES (2)
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3 (2)
• Q4
• Q5
• Q6
• Slide 139
• Q1 (2)
• A1 (2)
• Q2 (2)
• A2 (2)
• Q3 (3)
• A3
• Q4 (2)
• A4
• Q5 (2)
• A5 (2)
• Q6 (2)
• A6 (2)