1) This document outlines the rules and structure of the Major General Quiz grand finale, including 6 finalists, a theme round on Family Guy movie parodies, an A-Z question round, and scoring details.
2) The theme round involves 10 movie titles from Family Guy parodies that must be identified for 5 points each, for a maximum possible score of 50 points.
3) The document provides the questions, answers, and scoring structure for the various rounds of the quiz competition final.
2. Le RULES & le ROUNDS
• 6 FINALISTS
• 1 THEME ROUND
• 30 QUESTIONS
• A-Z (after first 15)
• After 15, we go counter clockwise
• MVC ( after 30 questions)
• INFY BOUNCE – (10 FOR DIRECT , 10 FOR PASS )
• POUNCE – ( STANDARD POINTS +10 / - 10 )
• PART POINTS ON QUIZMASTER’S DISCRETION
4. 10 MOVIES , 5 pts each , MAX
SCORE of 50 possible
8 PICS on slide 1
2 PICS on slide 2
8. • 1. PASSION OF THE CHRIST
• 2. THE TERMINATOR
• 3. E.T
• 4. JURASSIC PARK
• 5. ROBOCOP
• 6. LOTR
• 7. GHOSTBUSTERS
• 8. THE BREAKFAST CLUB
• 9. GREASE
• 10. DIE HARD
10. 1)
A Norwegian athlete Tony Andre Hansen was stripped of
his bronze medal , which he had won in the Beijing 2008
Olympics on doping charges .
However, surprisingly, despite testing negative for all
banned substances , the decision still stood .
PUT FUNDA
16. 3)
The X music video reached ninth place in Business Insider's
top ten viral videos of April 2011, with 7.2 million total
views. The original YouTube video has received over 65
million views as of February 24, 2012. Due to its
popularity, many new remixes and cover versions have
been made, some hours long. There are also
ringtones, wallpapers and applications created for
operating systems including Windows
7, Nokia, iPhone, iPad, Android, HP webOS and Windows
Phone 7. ID the name of this you tube video , which
became an internet meme later on. The video is currently
ranked number 5 on the list of most viewed You Tube
videos in 2011 .
19. 4)
The " X " (phrase) is a song by jazz pianist Bennie Moten
, referring to an advanced form of confidence game
employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the
"mark's" arrogance and/or self-loathing and that the
relevance to a direction stated at the beginning of a
situation has no bearing on the outcome. In pop
culture, the X was used the primary plot device in a 2006
crime thriller film, where one of the characters in the
movie says that the X is when " everybody looks right and
you go left" . Gimme X.
22. 5)
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham XY , an
English topographer, geologist and surveyor , is
distinguished for his researches on the natural
history of India. He has authored a book
titled, The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of
India . He was also an ornithologist, writing the
book "Birds of Assam ". Now, what honour was
bestowed upon this man ?
28. 7)
• The guy on the
picture is Nikhil
Kamath, who is a
Bollywood Music
director . He was in
the news quite
recently, for certain
songs that he had
composed for X ,
helping him out
during his successful
________. Gimme X
31. 8)
• X is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering
engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video
games are used to generate the computer animation. The
practice of using graphics engines from video games arose
from the animated software introductions of the 1990s
recordings of gameplay in FPS video games, such as id
Software's Doom and Quake. Originally, these recordings
documented speed runs—attempts to complete a level as
quickly as possible—and multiplayer matches. The addition of
storylines to these films created the "Quake movies". The
term X arose when the concept spread beyond the Quake
series to other games and software. ID X , which is a
portmanteau of two other words .
34. 9)
“X “ is a popular phrase in the corporate world
that originated in Britain in the mid 1960's
, referring to a clause in an executive employment
contract, where the top executives of the
company are offered equities, cash or other
benefits, if they happen to lose their job, either
through firing, restructuring or scheduled
retirement. Gimme the good phrase X .
37. 10)
X has become an important part of the Lewis and Clark (the
Lewis and Clark expedition fame) legend in the American public
imagination. The National American Woman Suffrage
Association of the early twentieth century adopted her as a
symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several
statues and plaques in her memory, and doing much to spread
the story of her accomplishments. In 2000, the United States
Mint issued the X dollar coin in her honor, depicting X and her
son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
In pop culture , Mizou Peck has played her role in two
commercially successful films , one in 2006 and then its sequel
in 2009 .
ID X
40. 11)
• On November 16th 2010 , this 30 year old Taiwanese
office worker Chen Wei Yih , did something very bizarre
and unheard of hitherto. She claimed then, that she did
it to spread an important message to all the single
ladies of Taipei . What did she do ?
45. • ONLY FIVE TO HAVE WON BEST
ACTOR /BEST ACTRESS (OSCAR) &
WORST ACTOR/WORST ACTRESS
(RAZZIE)
46. 13)
X was launched in 1993 by Dr. Simon King, a British
researcher at the University of Minnesota with help from
students and researchers at universities around the world.
It initially operated as a volunteer-based collective, and
started life as a simple Internet Relay Chat bot. It was soon
made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of
the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one of the
earliest content web sites on the Internet. Regular columns
on X are " All Today's Yesterdays" ," on this day "and "
Quote Unquote " .
ID X.
49. 14)
• The term X was widely popular in the early
1990's, especially in the Soviet Union created as
a pun on Mikhael Gorbachev's reform policy
Perestroika . Critics believed this to be a hollow
advertising campaign aimed at furthering the
sales of Y , who were the ones responsible for
the term X . Met with marginal success alright , X
did however establish a link between western
consumerism and the soviet policy which had
been oblivious till then . Just gimme X .
52. 15)
• This is a bronze
statue of John
Harvard, found in
front of the University
hall of the most
prestigious Harvard
University. There is an
inscription at the
bottom of this statue
which says ‘John
Harvard, Founder, 16
38′. The students of
Harvard, however call
it the “Statue of three
lies “, for a particular
reason . GIVE
FUNDA
54. • Lie 1 – this is a 19th century student of Harvard
• Lie2 – Harvard was an early financial contributor and not the
founder
• Lie 3 – Founded in 1636 not 1638
55. A2Z ROUND
• 26 ANSWERS REQUIRED
• 2.5 MARKS PER ANSWER
• BONUS 20 IF U CRACK 22 -26 ANSWERS
• MAX OBTAINABLE SCORE IS 85 POINTS
56. A , who acted in the 2003 superhero film adaptation B , is
related to cricketer C . C represented the team D during the first
two seasons of the IPL . D is owned by E , who is believed to
have played the role of F in a blockbuster movie G .
B , also featured H , who won the Academy award (his only
oscar) for best supporting actor for the movie I in 1987 . I stars J
in the leading role, who portrayed K in the movie I . K , is said to
have been the only real life character ever to have been
mentioned in L's works . An animated version of L makes a
cameo appearance at the start of a famous 2011 performance
capture film, directed by M. M created and released the N series
of games in 1999 , which continues to be a sensation in its genre
of gameplay .
57. • In 1985, M had directed O , which was an adaptation of a
Pulitzer prize winning novel of the same name . P and Q , both
made their film debuts with O . P is the current CEO of Harpo
productions , while Q made a mark at the Academy , with a
win in a supporting role for the movie ghost (1990). Ghost
featured R , who separated from her third husband, S in 2011 .
S currently stars in the hit Sitcom T , having replaced U .
• U had his first major role in the Vietnam war drama V (1986) ,
directed by W . W has also famously directed a 1991 biopic
about a rock band of the 1970's titled X , with the onus on the
lead singer of X . Y has had minor roles in both V and X , but is
more famously known for a pivotal role in the hit dramedy
series Z , which concluded in 2011 .
59. ANSWERS
• A- NASSEERUDDIN SHAH
• B – THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
• C – OWAIS SHAH
• D- KKR
• E- SRK
• F – MIR RANJAN NEGI
• G- CHAK DE INDIA
• H – SEAN CONNERY
• I – THE UNTOUCHABLES
• J- ROBERT DE NIRO
• K- AL CAPONE
• L- HERGE
60. • M- STEVEN SPIELBERG
• N- MEDAL OF HONOR
• O- COLOR OF PURPLE
• P – OPRAH WINFREY
• Q- WHOOPI GOLDBERG
• R – DEMI MOORE
• S- ASHTON KUTCHER
• T- 2 AND A HALF MEN
• U- CHARLIE SHEEN
• V- PLATOON
• W – OLIVER STONE
• X – THE DOORS
• Y – KEVIN DILLON
• Z- ENTOURAGE
62. 16)
X is an annual celebration , started in 2002, held in either
March or April and mainly sponsored by the Canadian
company Y and the Cosmopolitan magazine .
According to Samantha Paterson, the brand manager for Y,
the X was started according to a design to solemnise
women's independence and power in all facets of life, from
their careers to their relationships to their own destiny .
She further goes on to say that the day is intended to be
lighthearted amusement but that the gross revenue would
be donated to the Sunflower fund, an NGO located in Cape
Town , to help fight leukaemia and other life threatening
diseases.
71. 19)
Andrew Schlafly , in 2006, created X after
becoming concerned about the blatant liberal bias
contained in Y's viewpoints. He expressed hope
that X would become a general resource for
American educators and a counterpoint to the
aforementioned bias of Y.
ID X and Y (part points)
81. 22)
The first X's appeared in the early 1860s and 1870s, in the
United States . Instead of being powered by any form of
electric motor at that time, a stream of running water was
used in conjunction with a turbine, to drive a system of belts
which would turn the blades of the 2 blade X units . The
electrically powered X, though was first invented in 1882 by
Philip Deihl. He continued to make improvements to his
invention calling it the "Diehl Electrolier" which was a light kit
fitted to the X to combine two functions in one unit.
What is this X we are talking about ?
84. 23)
• One speculative theory about the origin of the
word X , is that it is derived from the guttural
tongue of Star Trek's Klingon language .
• Another theory , regards the word origin of X as
merely a variant of a commonplace english word
Y which means " being lively or energetic" .
• Urban Dictionary , on the other hand, lists X as a
much more updated and cooler way to say Y .
• ID X in pop culture.
87. 24 )
• X was used as a truth serum by the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), a US government intelligence agency
formed during World War II. In the early 1940s, it was the
most effective truth drug developed at the OSS labs at St.
Elizabeths Hospital. It caused a subject "to be loquacious
and free in his impartation of information."
In May 1943, Major George Hunter White, head of OSS
counter-intelligence operations in the US, arranged a
meeting with Augusto Del Gracio, an enforcer for gangster
Lucky Luciano. Del Gracio was given spikes of X and
subsequently talked openly about Luciano's heroin
operation. On a second occasion the dosage was increased
such that Del Gracio passed out for two hours . ID X
90. 25)
• Mark II was an early electromechanical
computer used in the US Navy. On September 9,
1947, when the operators were using the
computer to perform calculations, it gave the
wrong results. To find out what was going wrong,
they opened the computer and looked inside .
And there they found a moth stuck inside the
computer, which had caused the malfunction .
• What has this incident given rise to in modern
day parlance ?
93. 26)
• It is often claimed incorrectly that X’s (term)
etymological origin lies in a law that limited the
maximum thickness of a stick with which it was
permissible for a man to beat his wife.
• Another potential theory is that it comes from beer
brewing before the invention of thermometers, when
brewers would use their ________ to measure the
temperature of batches of beer .
• What phrase is X ?
99. 28)
• X suggested the following alternative to the regulation
penalty shootout to FIFA :-
“Count the number of times each goalkeeper touches the
ball throughout the game. The team whose goalkeeper has
touched the ball more often is the loser. The winner will
then be the team that has had more attempts at scoring
goals and is more aggressive (and therefore exciting) in
their style of play. “
X is a famous physician, author, inventor and consultant .
102. 29) PUT FUNDA
I was waiting for my teammates to
come and embrace me , and no
one came .
I told them “ Come , hug me fast
, or the referee is not going to
allow it . ”
106. • This is a concept car launched by an IT Major Z in collaboration with
West Coast Custom , the world famous luxury automotive restyling
center based in Corona, California .
• There is built-in Wi-Fi, heads-up displays with augmented reality in
the windshield, Kinect sensors at the rear and front of the car, and
even a Windows 8-powered touchscreen digital instrument cluster. Z
has also packed in Ford Sync, an Xbox 360, and a rear windshield
projector screen. Windows Phone plays a part in the car tech
too, you can locate, unlock, and start the car from a Windows Phone
app, and even talk into the phone to broadcast your voice to the
outside of the car.
• ID this concept car which was recently aired on March 25th on
Discovery’s Velocity Network .
110. • Exclusive list
• 7 clues , points starting from 35 ( for the
1st clue) and moving to 5 ( for the last clue)
• Negatives ( starting from -18 &
decrementing with 3 with every clue )
• No Negatives for the 7th clue
• One guess per clue allowed only