Cannabis Quixotica - A General Quiz : Finals

FINALS
• Four rounds – IB+Pounce Forward and
Reverse, Differential and Long Visual
Connect
• Questions are not long but properly
spaced. Important parts are
underlined wherever necessary.

When James moved to London, he met Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies as
his neighbors. This was 1897. He started spending most of the time with the
five children of the couple. James wrote chapter headings and published a
two copy edition of the never land designed by James for the kids on a
holiday, entitled The Boy Castaways. This became the foundation for his
biggest contribution to the theatrical world, the most produced play in
theatrical history. Sadly, middle one of the five, whose name X became the
inspiration for James famous play, committed suicide as the association with
this central character name plagued him throughout his life. The name was
devised to entertain the eldest two brothers, George and Jack with the idea
that their little brother in the line could fly.
What did James's The Boy Castaways transformed into and
what name was X ?

Merch is a platform that helps developers to build customized T-shirts
and sell them in game to their fans. The service is unique as the
pay nothing out of their pockets and the delivery, if any, of their
fans (and the consumer) is taken care of by the entity that launched this
business funda. Rather, the developer earns from the sale of the
designed by her/him.
Which entity is behind Merch ?

The man in this iconic photograph is variedly identified as Hibiscus (vis), born
with the name George Edgerly Harris III, or Joel Tornabene. Clicked at
Pentagon, Hibiscus is shown placing the key icon of this movement on what
became the symbol of the guarding army. Hibiscus later went onto establish
a psychedelic band and performed in the Summer of Love in San Fransico.
The photograph became hugely famous and bore the name of the
movement that gained wide popularity during the 1960s and 1970s
peaceful protest against Vietnam War. The expression was coined by Allen
Ginsberg. The term became a general reference to the hippie movement
after the incidents that happened during that time, an impact of which can
be seen even today in the clothing of this counterculture.

What did that photograph came to be known as/What movement
was that which became synonymous with the hippie culture ?
Hibiscus as Madame Butterfly
(1970)

Pulitzer Prize listed iconic photograph “Flower Power”

Edgar Allen Poe returned back to Boston (where he was born) after having
an unstable relationship with his foster father. He penned down his writings
under the pseudonym “A Bostonian” and published them with the title “X
and Other Poems” (vis). X portrays a fictionalized account of this warlord
warlord from 14th century who went on to establish one of the biggest
empires world has ever seen. This was his first published work.
The first mention of X chess (vis) is from 1350. X, the 14th century warlord,
loved to play this form of chess called the “great chess”. The game is unique
as it has 112 squares, arranged in a 10*11 matrix with one citadel tower on
each side. Only the Shah can penetrate the opposite citadel.

What word (X), another version of which became the
center of a controversy in the year that just passed ?

A collage of the jackets dawned by a certain someone , arranged into
a chart based on the color gradient in a manner resembling the
famous color charts of ___1___ , was prepared by Dutch graphic
designer Noortje van Eekelen. The project has since been given the
name “___1___ ____2___” - the first word being the name of the
famous company and the second being the name of this certain
someone.
The project is a part of website “The Spectacle of Tragedy” (do visit
the website), a website with collected and repurposed images of
politicos navigating Eurozone Crisis.
FITB 1 & 2 and give me the cumulative answer.

Hidden out of plain sight, an athletic club called Vanderbilt Athletic Club has
existed here since 1960’s which boasted of two clay tennis courts and oddly,
a 65-foot indoor ski slope. It fell into disrepair by 80’s only to be taken up by
Donald Trump for its renovation and opening it again, this time only for the
uber-rich personalities and movie stars. The lease fell out in 2010 and since
then the Vanderbilt Tennis Club (vis) moved to the fourth floor of this
structure. The rates to go and play here are still quite high, driven towards a
certain economic echelon of the society. The courts sits right behind the
top portion of the famous facade window of this structure, and thus, out of
plain sight.
Where can you find this tennis club running its
operations?

Designs were called in for this monument in 1956, which means “Built up
stepped embankment along the river meant for use by King”. The
proposals received wore many ideas, one was a replica of South Indian
Temple and some modelled on traditional European obelisks. Vanu G
Bhuta’s proposal was the one which was accepted who proposed a
square sunken garden surrounded by rampart like walls, which would
serve as viewing platforms. In the center will be a raised and engraved
marble block. The landscaping and planting was performed by Sydney
Percy-Lancaster, the last Englishman to hold the post of Superintendent
for Horticultural Operations.
Vanu G. Bhuta thus became the designer for which
monument ?

Connect the elements to a
cult phenomenon

“Babaji” by Supertramps was written by Roger Hodgson and Rick
Davies taking inspiration from The Beatles journey with
Paramhansa Yogananda, the Babaji in the song.
Photo of Apple Records by The Beatles.

The town of Edgartown is situated on the east coast of Martha’s
Vineyard. The most important landmark, the American Legion
Memorial Bridge (vis), got the name X Bridge, and the stone quay
that runs perpendicular to the bridge is still there. It became
famous due to rolling out of an event there in 1975 which was a
masterpiece in itself in the sense that how it used life-sized robotic
organism to create surreal fear.
What name did the American Legion Bridge got/
What event ? (specific)

Called as The Jaws
bridge as the shooting
for the first
installment (1975) of
The Jaws series took
place here.

X (4 words) is a famous painting by Gottfried Helnwein which in
reality is a spoof containing four icons of American Pop Culture:
James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Humphry Bogart,
named so due to the tragic fate they met with(vis). The spoof
became equally famous as the original one called Nighthawks.
Billie says that he saw another painting of James Dean by Helnwein
(vis) which had these words at the bottom that inspired him to
create this piece showing the estrangement and recognition that
the American Dream can let you down.

What was thus created, a supposed sequel to ‘Holiday’ ?

Game Theory tells us that in an election, if two right wing
candidates stand, by cutting each others votes, the left wing
candidate actually wins.
This is what happened in the 1912 election for POTUS. X was
President from 1901-1909 and decided not to run for a 2nd term. His
Secretary of War, William Taft ran instead and won. Due to their
differences, a rift grew which split wide open in 1912. X ran as a
Progressive Candidate whereas Taft ran as a Republican. In the
end, Woodrow Wilson of the Democrats won the election.
Who is X, a person feared by Big Business at the
time?

The Massacre of Glencoe was a brutal incident in 1692. The
Campbells massacred the MacDonalds who were under their
hospitality on the grounds that the MacDonalds hadn’t been
prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs.
This incident has crept into popular culture now, being vividly
reference on the TV Show Mad Men.
This is also said to be the inspiration behind X in the series Y.
Easy.
X and Y?

Y – Game of Thrones
X – Red Wedding

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 in Cuba, he banned quite
a few things. The list includes Cable TV, mobile internet as well as
Christmas.
X certainly made its way on to Castro’s list due to its roots in
capitalism. X is released tailor made to specific countries, cities or
people.
Though, X has been banned in Cuba since 1959, people have made
rip-offs to enjoy X – some of these rip-offs don’t have any names,
some are printed with “Capitolio”
What did Castro ban that teaches us about money
and business?

X had won every instalment of the annual Y since 1960. ___1__ Z II, CEO
of Z realized that winning Y would position his product better to
consumers and push profits through the roof. ___1__ Z II went to
___2___ X to buy X. X agreed to sell. Everything was final. In 1963, when
the deal was about to be signed ___2____ X flipped out regarding a
clause about Y and blew the deal. This hurt ____1___ Z II’s ego. He
poured in an estimated total $300million to win Y. In 1966, finally with
the help of Ken Miles and his product W, Z got its revenge by beating X
at Y. And then, for the next 4 years, Z was the champion at Y.
X, Y and Z? Bonus for W(+5)

W – Ford GT40
X – Enzo Ferrari
Y – 24 Hours of Le Mans
Z – Henry Ford II

His first business venture was a national magazine, titled Student
(vis) that he released in 1968. At that time, his headmaster told
him “Congratulations, _______. I predict you will either go to
prison or become a millionaire.”. He did both. Student had articles
and interviews from poets, philosophers and writers. But, seeing
as the magazine was losing money – he started another business
____1_____, the one he is most known for now, to support it. He
it. He advertised ____1_____ via Student and when ____1_____
took off, he stopped publishing Student. ____1_____ led to his
further fame.
Who is this millionaire?

The day before a POTUS’ inauguration a Presidential Ball is thrown
on the White House Lawn. This year, when Trump and Melania had
their first dance at said ball, they used the song “X” by Y.
The next day, someone tweeted this to Y’s daughter. She state
that if her father were alive, he would not have performed at DJT’s
inauguration and would have voted for Hillary. She also said that
people should remember the first line of the song – “And now the
end is near”
What song was chosen by DJT for his inauguration?
Whose song is this ?

Connect them to a
businesswoman, also an
icon to many.

DIFFER
ENTIAL
• 5N + 5 scoring where N is number of
teams answering wrong.
• Don’t speak. Write down your
answers.
• Questions are not long but properly

It is attributed to Brion Gysin, a friend of Alicia
who told her about it which she included in her
famous Cookbook. The main plot of the movie
revolves around this most famous entity
attributed to Alicia B. Toklas, described by her as
“Food of Paradise”. Though, Toklas states
that getting the key ingredient “can present
certain difficulties” and recommends finding the
stuff in the wild, which might have been possible
to do in the early 1960s.
What, which was prescribed to be taken
only two pieces at a time, by Toklas ?

Haschich Fudge /
Hashish Brownies

Damien “Jr. Gong” X stands out as one of the best reggae artist with
three Grammys to his account. His 1996 debut album “Mr.X” was
released with high backing to his name after his father’s Tuff Gong.
His second and Grammy winning album “Halfway Tree” get’s its name
from his being “a tree halfway in between the ‘rich’ world of his
mother and ‘poor’ world his father comes from”. Additionally
Halfway Tree is a well-known landmark that marks the cultural center
of The Half-Way-Tree, the clock tower that stands where the
historical eponymous cotton tree once stood and is featured
prominently behind him on the cover of his album.
What surname (X) did Damien share with
his father ?

The cotton tree was one of the main centers of the
Cannabis Culture

Clothes came to symbolize a lot during U.S Election. In one such incidence,
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was spotted wearing the pink
scarf on the inauguration of DJT as POTUS. She was not alone as many
members of the congress were seen wearing this clothing accessory as the
official symbol of this program/organization, a merch they decided to dawn
in protest to one of the announcement related to this specific program to a
certain gender of the society. Photo posted by Patty Murray, Senator from
Washington, explained her outfit choice through the Facebook post (vis on
next slide).
What nonprofit organization is this, an undying
symbol of hope for a particular gender, and a flag
bearer of an eponymous program in U.S.A ?

This Art (vis) developed in 1960s in response to certain stringent
regulations by government(s) on regulation of a product. It made its
appearance on streets of UK in 1967 and a little later in USA. Shortly
after iconic images of celebrities or abstract images made their way
on to this sheet from which the art derive its name. The artwork is
printed onto this sheet and then perforated into tiny squares called
hits. Producers can mark their special seal in any form to distinguish
their brand from others.
What name did this art form got, based on an accidental
discovery of the properties of this sheet in 1778 ?

For no points, give the function these artworks served for the masses ?

Blotter Art
One consumes LSD/acid
in this form

William Morris, aka Lord Nuffield was a motor enthusiast. He
was the founder of XY. He created the XZ III Series in 1956.
Nuffield was an OBE, he was the first chairman of the BMC. He
was known for his philanthropy work – he donated funds to
build a cyclotron, donated over 1700 iron lungs to people.
His greatest failure was that of promising 50 Spitfire planes in
WWII and not being able to deliver even one.
How have seen his creation taking a
prominent place in Indian polity ?

This song by Anu Malik, Vinay Tiwari and Devang Patel has
references to celebrities such as – Madhuri Dixit, Dara Singh,
Dhirubhai Ambani, Harshad Mehta, Mr.India, Rambo, Amitabh
Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Subhash Ghai, Jackie Chan, Michel
Jackson, Kapil Dev, Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, Ratan Tata,
Mike Tyson and PT Usha.
The song basically lists out ridiculous and obviously false things
and envisions a tax free, corruption free society.
Which song is this?

On 8th November 2016, when USA was waiting for its election results and
India was counting their currency notes – Europe was not misery-free. In the
European Court of Justice, the UK Company Seven Towers which owns the
trademark on X lost a case against Simba ____ from Germany.
The ECJ ruled that “In examining whether registration ought to be
refused on the ground that shape involved a technical solution,
EUIPO and the general court should also have taken into account
non-visible functional elements represented by that shape, such as
its rotating capability.”
X is one of the most sold items worldwide in its category.
What is X, something we have all “tried”?

When the first product by X was launched in 1976, many
people believed it was Satanic and didn’t want to buy it.
This superstition was based on the price-tag of the
product.
When the co-founder was asked about it he said he just
liked repeating digits and the markup was 1/3rd the actual
cost. He insists that he didn’t know about its religious
implications.
The product was recently auctioned at $905,000/-.
What am I talking about?

This device came into news recently, after it has again been altered by
30 fundamental units, owing to the waves of strident-nationalism
nationalism around the globe, specifically the statements of POTUS,
North Korea’s war stance and it’s continuous testing of nuclear
weapons underground, thwarting of concerns regarding climate
change by USA and increased tensions between Pakistan and India
across LoC.
This device was conceptualized by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in
1947.
What is the device aptly named as, seeing the reasons for
which it has been altered 22 times since 1947 (vis)? (Points only
on specific answer/and no variants)

Bruce F Meyers is a very adventurous person – he’s survived
Kamikaze attacks, braved burning oil and is a yacht designer and
surfer. He is best known for designing the Meyers Manx, which got
its name from the Manx cat virtue of the tailless breed and the
shortened vehicle's truncated "stubbiness“.
The Meyers Manx is so popular, we have seen it inspire vehicles in
GTA by the name of BF Injection.
He used Volkswagen Beetles for his Meyers Manx.
What kind of vehicle is a Meyers Manx?

Given below is an excerpt from his autobiography. Names hidden wherever
required (vis)

What signature style of his
attire was the outcome of this
incident ?
Issey Miyake

Turtleneck collection of Steve Jobs

Prozac is an anti-depressant medicine.
She, being a patient of bipolar disorder
and her problems with drug and alcohol,
was an active voice about mental illness.
Fittingly, she had a large Prozac Pill in her
possession, described as her favorite.
More fittingly, her ashes were buried in a
Prozac-Pill shaped urn (vis) and it made
worldwide news, along with her, on her
death.
Who ?

Todd Fisher carrying her sisters ashes in a Prozac pill
shaped urn

This news article (vis) published in Outlook talks about a secret Project
GORMET by Indian Government in which unmarked U.S military planes, with
strange-looking tanks under their wings, landed outside Delhi, much to the
relief of common Indians. It was inspired from a similar operation (eventually
which was undertaken successfully) that US army was trying in Vietnam,
called X. GORMET went underway, much to the hectic of Indira Gandhi as she
doesn’t wanted it to seem like joint military exercise with US, thus further
increasing tensions with Pakistan. The operation was proposed to be
experimented over the skies of specific target states but couldn’t be
performed due to a technical incompetence hampering its success. It was then
proposed over the skies of India’s land near Pakistan but again, couldn’t be
completed due to strategic presence of this technical competence, which would
have aggravated the issues more between the two countries. The project was
project was thus shelved.

What reason made Indira Gandhi deliberate enough to
strategize such an operation ? (On IB+Pounce)
What specific technical incompetence met the operation as its
first hurdle ? (Bonus +10) | Also X (For +10 more)

Monsoon failure of 1965 & 1966, especially in states of
Bihar and UP, made Indira Gandhi take this step. The
monsoon failure resulted in am almost famine like
condition in Bihar.
The technical incompetence was that there were no
clouds to be seen over the targeted states and so
Indira Gandhi planned to have the experiment over
the skies of Punjab but it was ultimately cancelled.

Shortly after the First Crusade, a French nobleman from the Champagne
region, Hugh de Payens, collected eight of his knighted relatives and began
this order with their stated mission of protecting the Pilgrims on their
journey. Temple Mount in old city of Jerusalem became their headquarters.
The men of this order were lodged in the Aqsa Mosque, which was assumed
to stand on the site of Solomon's Temple. Because the Aqsa mosque was
known as the Templum Solomonis, it was not long before the knights had
encompassed the association in their name. They became known as the
Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, which was
which was eventually shortened to the name with which they became
popular and inspired a great order in Popular Culture.
Origins of which famous order ?

Equality (Titles) Bill, a bill by the Parliament of United Kingdom,
has been colloquially named as the “X Law” and “XY Law”. The
bill would end a measure of gender discrimination and allow for
equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and
peerages. The bill gets its colloquial name inspired from pop
culture where the Earl’s eldest daughter is unable to inherit the
family seat because it can only be passed to a male heir. The bill
still has not yet been passed.
By what name is this bill colloquially known ?

The committee headed by Bibek Debroy stated this move in
their report on restructuring public transport in 2016. This
move saves this institution the huge amount and dividend it
has to pay to the GoI for its support and help cut its costs
which is already facing losses in this financial year. The move
will thus put an end to almost a century old tradition.
What tradition ?

Presenting Rail Budget separate from
the General budget

This is Phan Thi Kim Phuc (vis), commonly known as XY.
She is 53 years old. Her back was burnt badly when she was 9.
She’s received multiple treatment for this, and is now fine.
She also started her own eponymous foundation and has
written a book.
All this has been due to the incident when she was 9.
Recently, a Tech company was criticized for censorship
relating to her.
What is she commonly known as?

This company had a hand in making the Golden Gate Bridge,
Alcatraz, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Madison Square
Garden, Rockefeller Center, Waldorf Astoria, Hoover Dam and
others.
It became defunct in 2003 and is now owned by ArcelorMittal.
Its failure is attributed to cheap foreign labor and short term
thinking.
Its name comes from the biblical birthplace of Christ.
Which company is this that built America?

In Kolkata, on X Terrace stands a building named X Sadan. The
building is used for Chess classes and as a tie of friendship
between the countries. This place is named after, Y X who was
nominated five times for the Nobel in Literature. Y X was close to
Stalin in YX’s last years.
His most famous works include Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and The
Mother. YX in-fact is his pen name where X reflected his simmering
simmering anger about life in his country and a determination to
speak the bitter truth.
Who is this person ?

This term comes from lightweight carriages, and is used to refer to
the soft top that was supported by 4 metal beams on each side of
the carriage, resembling a X.
This term is still in use for a certain class of cars.
This term became very popular after James Dean’s 1955 Porsche
550 X titled Little Bitch crashed and killed him.
Aston Martin used to use X to brand their cars, but have now
changed it to Volante, the Italian word for the English word X.
What am I talking about?

When Hassanpur MLA Gaya Lal changed his parties three times in a
fortnight – from INC to United Front, back to Congress and then in
nine hours, back to United Front! Rao Birendra Singh caught hold
of him when he again wished to change to Congress and declared
something to the press which became a popular reference to turn-
coats
What famous reference did this incident inspire ?

James Wilson founded The Economist and the precursor of
Standered Chartered Bank. He was described by Karl Marx as an
“economical mandarin of high standing”. He is said to have
“evoked order out of chaos” after the 1857 war of Independence
in India. He gave the income tax system of India, created the
government paper currency. While in India, he gave the first-of-its-
kind speech as the then Finance Member of the India Council that
advised the Viceroy of India.
What speech was that, the beginning of a ritual
sort of performed every year amidst much
speculation ?

The first General Budget
Speech in India delivered in
1860

This book lists a secret glossary,
which came to news after this star
of the sport made headlines in 2012.
the medicine that was originally made to treat leukemia or anemia,
Vitamin E, Glowtime – for the period just after ingestion, Ufe, El
Importante, Sam – referring to Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes who helped
Hamilton too.
Who was this star ?

Lance Armstrong.
Doping allegations
and his trial.

The initial plan of this building was to raise it to a height of 1,050
feet though the height was increased to 1,250 feet. The additional
200 feet was to serve a special purpose, catering to the
technological development taking form in big shapes from the
beginning of 1910s. The advancement was to result in a disaster in
less then a decade after the building was opened in 1931 to the
public. Though the mast never served it’s intended purpose of a
host, today it is used a radio and transmitting tower. The 102nd
102nd storey serves as an observatory.
What said purpose was that which cannot be
completed due to technical faults in the structure ?

Raising the height of the
mast of the Empire State
Building so as to make
dirigible platform for the
docking of Airships during
1920s and 1930s.
This image, though very popular, is a fake.

As Travis Ishikawa pulled of a
Bobby Thomson in 2014 National
League Series, winning the San
Francisco Giants the pennant, the
famous line heard all over the
world in 1951 when Bobby Thomson did the same for his team X, were
used again by the commentator albeit in a different voice.
This 1951 instance thus was called Y (5 word phrase) putting it into a
group comprised of historical incidents of the likes of the first shots of
American Revolutionary War and assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The
phrase derives its origin from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo
Emerson’s Concord Hymn (vis).

Which team (X) was originally referred to as in
those iconic lines ? (IB+Pounce)
Write the phrase (Y) for Bonus +10.

There have been thirty Mars mission attempts over a period of forty years
now. In one such turn of events, the mission launched as X became the first
to be headed by a public university, University of Arizona, in NASA history.
This lander, used in 2008, is the modified Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander
(cancelled in 2000) along with several instruments from both that and the
previous unsuccessful Mars Polar Lander mission (1999). Lockheed Martin
which built the 1999 lander, had kept the nearly complete lander in an
environmentally controlled clean room from 2001 until the 2008 mission
was funded.
Owing to such history, what (mythical) name was given to the
spacecraft due to obvious reasons (a reference being underlined) ?

Long
Visual
Connect
• 9 Elements.
• Marking scheme on slide.

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