Thomasonian'15 Finals

1. THOMASONIAN
FINALS
2015

2. Infinite Pounce
• +15/-10 on pounce
• +10 on bounce
• Unlimited pounces.

3. X or the book?
Kurowsky served as a nurse in an
American Red Cross hospital in Milan
during World War I. One of her patients
was the 19-year-old X, who fell in love
with her. By the time of his release and
return to the United States in January
1919, Kurowsky and X planned to marry
within a few months in America.
However, in a letter dated March 7,
1919, she wrote that she had become
engaged to an Italian officer. Although
Kurowsky did eventually return to the
United States, they never met again.

4. Answer…

5. X: ErnestHemingway
FarewelltoArms

6. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich often gets funny stares when
he mentions that his favorite movie is ________. Interestingly,
he notes that many of the people who knew him as a horror
fiend in his youth were similarly surprised when he wound up
making family films at Pixar. He also put in a lot of references
from _______ in Toy Story.

7. Answer…

8. THE SHINING

9. FITB.
The name Pakistan literally means "Land of the Pure" in
Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by
Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who
published it in his pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an
acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in
PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern
regions of the British Raj: Punjab,North-West Frontier
Province (Afgania Province),_________, Sindh, and
Baluchistan". The letter i was incorporated to ease
pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and
meaningful name.

10. Answer…

11. Kashmir

12. Funda?

14. Answer…

15. Taxi Driver

16. Video Funda?

17. Answer…

18. Hip Hop Montage

19. Recent news
A diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks in 2010 said that he
had suggested to a US counterterrorism official that electronic
chips be implanted in detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
He said it had worked with horses and falcons, to which the
American replied, "Horses don't have good lawyers."
In line with Islamic law, X kept no more than four wives at once,
and was married at least 13 times.

20. Answer…

21. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

22. "General Winter", from a 1916
front page illustration of the
French periodical
Le Petit Journal.
What is being depicted
here?

23. Answer…

24. The Russian Winter

25. Who is speaking these words?

26. Answer…

27. Amelia Earheart

29. Answer…

30. Iniesta is also from La Mancha

31. Written Round.
• +15 if 1-2 have it right
• +10 if 3-4 have it right
• +5 if 5-6 have it right

32. IMDb 404 Errormessages
1. Always remember, _____, the page is trying to get back to its
master. It wants to be found.
1. Webpages? Where we're going, we don't need webpages.
1. It's the one that says 'Page not found'.
1. I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
1. This is not the webpage you're looking for.
1. I am Jack's missing page.

33. Alwaysremember,Frodo,thepageistryingtogetbacktoitsmaster.Itwantstobe
found.
-Gandalf,TheLordoftheRings:TheFellowshipoftheRing(2001)

34. Webpages?Wherewe'regoing,wedon'tneedwebpages.
-Dr.EmmettBrown,BacktotheFuture(1985)

35. It'stheonethatsays'Pagenotfound'.
-JulesWinnfield,PulpFiction(1994)

36. I'vegotafeelingwe'renotinKansasanymore.
-Dorothy,TheWizardofOz(1939)

37. Thisisnotthewebpageyou'relookingfor.
-Obi-Wan,StarWars:EpisodeIV-ANewHope(1977)

38. IamJack'smissingpage.
-TheNarrator,FightClub(1999)

39. Long Connect
• +25/-15
• +20/-10
• +15/-5
• +10/0

40. 1.

41. 2.

42. 3.

43. 4.

44. 4. Contd.

45. Connect
L. K. Advani
Amitabh Bachchan
Parkash Singh Badal
Veerendra Heggade
Dilip Kumar
Rambhadracharya
M.R. Srinivasan
Kottayan Katankot Venugopal
Aga Khan IV

46. Answer…

47. This year’s Padma Vibhushan
awardees.