Quizmaster: Harshit Khare

1. QUIZ MEET
Harshit
28/3/12

2. • What’s happening
here?

4. Largest game of Dodgeball
• In what is fast becoming an annual
tradition, the University of Alberta sought to
reclaim the Guinness World Record for largest
game of dodgeball for the third year in a row.
• 4,979 students, staff, and faculty members
gathered to throw big red balls at each other
for over an hour.

5. • David J. Peterson is the 30-year-old who expanded on the snippets
of this language to create a full, speakable language.
• To do this, he first ruled out words that wouldn’t exist (not only
“book” but “toilet” missed the cut too ), then formed “native and
basic” words before building the grammar rules, starting with the
“18 noun classes in Swahili and the negative verb forms in
Estonian… He *then+ scribbled sample sentences and added suffixes
and prefixes to expand the vocabulary.”
• Though there is no word for “book” in the language ,there are, of
course, more than fourteen different words for “horse.”
• Which language?

7. Dothraki

8. • A stone-faced immigrant chef with a
thick Stalin-esque moustache, he is renowned
throughout Manhattan .
• He demands that all customers in his
restaurant meticulously follow his strict
queuing, ordering, and payment policies.
Failure to adhere to his demands brings the
stern admonition whereupon the customer is
refunded and denied his or her order.

10. Soup Nazi
•

11. • On being asked about the
origin of their band name, the
members said that the name X
comes from when the group
were photographing “X"
homes. The X architectural
style describes the large
plantation homes in the
American South. “X" more
commonly refers to pre-Civil
War America.
• While photographing the
houses one of the group said
that there's a great band name
in there, and they adopted the
name shortly after.

13. • Ante-bellum, meaning
"pre-war", from
the Latin ante, "before",
and bellum, "war“
• The band: Lady
Antebellum

14. • A strong contender for the crown of worst batsman of
all-time. X has failed to reach double figures in 91 of his
92 Test innings, has 31 ducks (and counting) and an
average of 2.39. He also has a world record six pairs in
Tests cricket.
• X is an archetypal tail-end batsman. His batting gets
more publicity than his bowling. X has the rather
dubious honour of belonging to a select group of
cricketers whose number of wickets taken exceeds runs
scored; Bhagwat Chandrasekhar is the only other
cricketer to have achieved this 'honour' (assuming a
qualification of 30 Tests played). X also holds the record
for the most pairs recorded in Test match history.

16. • Chris Martin

17. • Tara Browne was a young London socialite
who died in a car accident. Browne was
driving with his girlfriend, model Suki
Potier, in his Lotus Elan through South
Kensington at high speed (some reports
suggesting in excess of 106 mph/170
km/h). It is not known whether he was
under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
He failed to see a traffic light and
proceeded through the junction
of Redcliffe Square and Redcliffe
Gardens, colliding with a parked lorry. He
died of his injuries the following day.
Potier claimed Browne swerved the car to
absorb the impact of the crash to save her
life.
• X , a friend of Browne's, was composing
music at his piano whilst idly reading
London's Daily Mail and happened upon
the news of the coroner's verdict into
Browne's death. He worked the story into
a song.
• Give me X and the song.

19. • A day in the Life by the Beatles
• I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

20. • Strangely, the two men most often associated
with this curse, share eerily similar last names.
One of them tried to escape the trappings of the
role, and it ruined his acting career. Depressed,
he committed suicide in 1959, though many
theorize he was murdered. The other was
paralyzed in 1995 after falling from his horse. He
died in 2004 from heart failure, and, though she
was never a smoker, his wife, Dana, passed away
from lung cancer the next year.

22. The Superman Curse, George Reeves
and Christopher Reeve

23. • Throughout his career X was never far from controversy. Widely travelled, as both
a player and coach, he rarely stayed at a club longer than two seasons, and was
quoted as saying the third season is fatal. He was sacked at AC Milan while they
were top of Serie A and he walked out on SL Benfica after they refused a request
for a pay rise, purportedly leaving the club with a curse as he left. He also earned a
reputation for his self confidence and his brash style, leading to comparisons
with José Mourinho.
• After spells with Calcio Padova and U.S. Triestina Calcio, he was appointed
manager of AC Milan in 1953. With a team that included Gunnar Nordahl, Nils
Liedholm andJuan Alberto Schiaffino, X had them top of Serie A nineteen games
into his second season in charge when a string of disputes with the board led to
his dismissal. He later told a stunned press conference "I have been sacked even
though I am neither a criminal nor a homosexual. Goodbye.“
• After the 1962 final X approached the Benfica board of directors and asked for a
pay rise, but, despite the success he had bought the club, he was turned down. On
leaving Benfica he allegedly cursed the club, declaring "Not in a hundred years
from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup". Despite being finalists on five
occasions – 1963, 1965, 1968, 1988 and 1990 – Benfica have never since won any
European Championship. Before the 1990 final, which was played in Vienna, where
X was buried, Eusébio even prayed unsuccessfully at his grave and asked for the
curse to be broken.

25. • Béla Guttmann was a Jewish
Hungarian footballer and coach.
He played as a midfielder for MTK
Hungária FC, SC Hakoah
Wien, Hungary and several clubs
in the United States. However he
is perhaps best remembered as a
coach and manager of some the
world’s
leading football teams, including
AC Milan,São Paulo FC, FC
Porto, SL Benfica and C.A.
Peñarol. His greatest success
came with SL Benfica when he
guided them to two
successive European Cup wins
in 1961 and in 1962.

26. • What a stuff up. X had the number 356
tattooed on his body, believing he was the
356th Test representative for his nation. He
also had a personalised number plate on his
Ferrari reading MS356. But he is listed by his
Cricket Board as the 357th. Fortunately, Y
, who was the 356th Test player, said he was
happy to concede the number to X and the
board approved.

28. • X: Michael Slater
• Y: Brendon Julian

29. • Her name, a pun on the name of the North
American shrub and the herbal
medicine derived from it, X , has been
commonly used for the names
of cartoon witches; Warner
Bros., MGM, Famous Studios, and the Little
Lulu comic book also had characters named
“X", and Rembrandt Films had one named
“X". Animator Chuck Jones, of his own
admission, got the idea of Looney
Tunes' version from the Disney
short, creating a different character but again
using June Foray for the voice.
• The Disney X had a very different appearance
from her Looney Tunes counterpart. She is
short, has a hairy, warty chin and a large red
nose with green eyes. She wears a long
blonde wig (although occasionally it is
grey), dresses in archetypal black
clothes, and her hat is very tall. She is also far
more benevolent than the Looney
Tunes version.

31. • Witch Hazel

32. • Larry ______ was studying law at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall
School of Law, and had little money. He started running courier duty between San
Francisco and Los Angeles, picking up packages for the last flight of the day, and
returning on the first flight the next morning, up to five times a week.
• When he graduated, Larry decided to go into the courier business himself. He
found a niche that no other company was filling, offering to fly bills of lading from
San Francisco to Honolulu. By flying the documents ahead of the freight they could
be processed prior to vessel arrival and save valuable time after arrival.
• Larry put up a portion of his student loans to start the company, bringing in his two
friends Adrian____ and Robert _____ as partners, with their combined initials as
the company name. All three shared a Plymouth Duster that they drove around
San Francisco to pick up the documents in suitcases, then rushed to the airport to
book flights using another relatively new invention, the corporate credit card. As
the business took off, they started hiring new couriers to join the company.
• The company started expanding their service through the early 1970s, first to
the Philippines, then Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.

34. • DHL

35. • Founded in 1914 by this guy
in a small West London
workshop, the company
gained the name after
him, then added with “X" as
its cars had great success in
X Hill Climb race.
• He regularly competed in
climbs at X Hill – and with
the simple combination of a
hill and a driver, the legend
was born.

37. • Aston Hill
• Aston Martin

38. • The island was a major Arab port and boat
building centre long before Vasco da Gama
visited in 1498. The name of the island is
derived from the name of an Arab trader who
first visited the island and later lived there.
This name was subsequently taken to the
mainland country which is modern day X.

40. • Mozambique

41. • X’s most famous movie roles are in Water for
Elephants (2011) and The Artist (2011). In The
Artist, his performance was considered by many
to have upstaged those of his co-stars and has
won him accolades in Cannes . There are
petitions for other awards to be also given to
him, on account of his exceptional performance.
• The campaign "Consider X" was launched in
December 2011 on Facebook by S.T. VanAirsdale,
an editor at Movieline, for X to receive a
honorary Oscar nomination.

43. • Uggie

44. • He carried the Australian attack throughout the
1960s, a decade when they lost only two series.
When he played his last match in the baggy
green, he was fourth on the all-time Test wicket
list, with 246, behind Fred Trueman, Brian
Statham and Richie Benaud. The start of X's
career overlapped with the end of
Davidson's, and he narrowly missed out on
playing Test cricket with Lillee.
• Id this gentleman. A cricinfo article was published
on him recently.

46. Graham Mc Kenzie

50. Saul Bass
• During his 40-year career Bass worked for
some of Hollywood's greatest
filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto
Preminger,Billy Wilder, Stanley
Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his
most famous title sequences are the
animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's
arm for Preminger's The Man with the
Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down
what eventually becomes a high-angle shot
of the United Nations building in
Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the
disjointed text that races together and apart
in Psycho.
• Bass designed some of the most iconic
corporate logos in North America, including
the AT&T "bell" logo in 1969, as well
asAT&T's "globe" logo in 1983 after
the breakup of the Bell System. He also
designed Continental Airlines' 1968
"jetstream" logo and United Airlines' 1974
"tulip" logo which became some of the most
recognized airline industry logos of the era.

51. • X was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s
to the 1990s. Operating within the Canadian tradition of
political satire, X’s basic credo, their so-called primal
promise, was "a promise to keep none of our
promises." They then promised outlandishly impossible
schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting
public.
• Some members of X would call themselves Marxist-
Lennonist in reference to Groucho Marx and John Lennon.
• They declared politicians to be a group of "thick-
skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, acting only in danger”
individuals and hence justified naming their party
accordingly.

53. • Rhinoceros Party
(Canada)

54. • X is a form of facial paralysis resulting from a dysfunction of the cranial
nerve VII (the facial nerve) that results in the inability to control facial
muscles on the affected side. Several conditions can cause facial
paralysis, e.g., brain tumor, stroke, and Lyme disease. However, if no
specific cause can be identified, the condition is known as X. Named after
Scottish anatomist Y , who first described it, X is the most common acute
mononeuropathy (disease involving only one nerve) and is the most
common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis.
• Pierce Brosnan
• George Clooney
• Allen Ginsberg
• Katie Holmes
• Anupam Kher
• Ralph Nader
• Ayrton Senna
• Rahul Sharma

56. • Bell’s Palsy

57. • I was walking along a path with two friends –
the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned
blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and
leaned on the fence – there was blood and
tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and
the city – my friends walked on, and I stood
there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an
infinite scream passing through nature.
• Inspiration for what?

59. • ‘The Scream’ by Edvard
Munch

60. List of what?
• 2005 appoggiatura
• 2006 Ursprache
• 2007 serrefine
• 2008 guerdon
• 2009 Laodicean
• 2010 stromuhr
• 2011 cymotrichous

62. • Winning words of
Scripps National
Spelling Bee

63. • X ’s 1950 screen test must have been a doozy to behold, because
many famous names have commented on the her
mesmerizing, early appearance. John Ford said after seeing it that X
had “breeding class and quality,” and Y — who was looking for a
lead at the time — fell in love with X’s “sexual elegance.” He cast
the then unknown starlet in his film.
• Y called X a “snow-covered volcano” — perhaps defining his
legendary blonde obsession. Their intriguing partnership ended
when X married a prince and became royalty, but the director never
stopped pursuing his muse. He attempted to lure her back to the
screen for Vertigo and Marnie— two films that changed Y’s career
entirely. Although the filmmaker played Svengali to the actresses
that came after X — molding and developing them into his ideal
archetype (several endured his oft-humiliations) — many would say
he never found a muse as alluring as X ever again.

65. Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly

66. • The Danish newspaper Politiken held a competition in
honour of Jules Verne which was open only to teenaged
boys. The winner would be assisted in a challenge to
circumnavigate the globe within 46 days unaccompanied.
They were allowed to use all forms of transport apart from
aviation.
• There were several hundred applications for this
competition. Palle Huld was 15 at the time and working in a
car dealership as a clerk. Huld left on his voyage on 1 March
1928 and visited countries including
England, Scotland, Canada, Japan, the Soviet Union, Poland
and Germany. In 44 days he made it back to Copenhagen to
the cheers of a crowd of twenty-thousand.
• What did this inspire?

69. • The animus between Y and X is easy enough to explain. Y was a
snob, though he occasionally rose above such petty social concerns. He
also revered the 18th century Augustan poets, particularly Alexander
Pope, whose adherence to the classical tradition is echoed in his own early
poetry. X's work was deeply at odds with the Augustans. X found
inspiration in the extravagant and sensuous wordplay of the 16th century
and also admired the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Those first
generation Romantics poets had caused a literary revolution with their
rejection of Augustan classicism. And so, quite simply, Y disliked X's poetry
on an aesthetic level. X felt likewise about Y's work; he considered it
overrated, slavish and unoriginal. It was a sort of reverse snobbery.
• “Here are X’s piss-a-bed poetry, and three novels by God knows whom…
No more X, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him
myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.”
• Id the pair.

71. • Lord Byron and John Keats