Infinite Bounce, clockwise passing

2. Which company's logo consists of
three tuning forks on a circular
disc, which according to the
company stands for its
employees, customers and the
community?

3. • Yamaha

5. • Gandalf (The look of the character was
inspired from this painting).

6. The name (X) for this fictional ‘character’ is a
spoof on the name by which a figure from a
controversial event of the 1970s was known.
Several years later, a supercomputer intended
to take on Garry Kasparov in a two-game
match in 1989 was named X. What is X?

7. • Deep Thought

8. The famous legal case of the terrified typist in
1956 attracted widespread notice. A famous
lawyer, representing Duane Jefferson, made an
eloquent plea but lost. He brought in a retrial
citing the fact that his client was an impostor
and was posing under another person's name-
this did not help and he still lost the case. Why
is this case unique?

9. • The only case lost by Perry Mason.

10. X was canned and given to Allied pilots flying
sorties during WWII. The idea was that if shot
down and stranded on a remote island, the
pilots would eat X and then urinate into the
sea. X contains mercaptons - powerful chemical
agents - that would attract fish to the
shore, whereupon the pilots could catch them
for food. What is X?

11. • Asparagus

13. • The question was, what is unique about this
moment. This is Al Capone, and in this panel
and the subsequent ones, he became the only
real-life personality to appear in a Tintin
comic.

14. In 1998, a film X was the first film dubbed from
its language into Japanese and grossed $1.6
million. It became a cult hit and resulted in its
star Y becoming, in the words of a Newsweek
article, "Japan's trendiest heartthrob since
Leonardo di Caprio". Some routines performed
by Y became huge hits for Japanese to perform
on reality TV shows. Identify X and Y.

15. • Rajnikanth, Muthu The Dancing Maharaja

16. Narrated as part tragedy part comedy, the novel is
set as the memoirs of a fictional character, X. The
latter is shown to be an unreliable
narrator, portraying his actions as reasonable and
provoking further contempt in the reader’s mind;
although X does show remorse occasionally at the
result of his actions on Y, the main protagonist of
the story. The novel concludes on a tragic note : Y
dies in childbirth, X of thrombosis. The US edition
set a sales record, becoming the first book since
Gone With The Wind to sell 100,000 copies in its
first three weeks. Name X, Y and the book.

17. • Humbert Humbert, Lolita

18. What tradition was started by a prominent
newsmagazine in 1927 in order to cover up the
embarassment of not featuring Charles
Lindbergh on their cover after his trans-Atlantic
flight?

19. • TIME Man of the Year (now Person of the
Year).

21. • Robert De Niro with the real Jake LaMotta, the
character he played in Raging Bull. This is a
still from the sets of the movie.

22. This gentleman died young in Florida in 1971
while still in his early 50s. He would become
(supposedly) the 1st non-musician to get a full
page obituary in Rolling Stone. Why?
[Hint : Check out the timeline]

23. • Max Yasgur, who owned the Woodstock farm.

24. According to an urban myth, it was during a Test
match between the West Indies and England
when X was about to bowl to Y, that the radio
commentator Brian Johnston said: "The bowler's
X, the batsman's Y".
While Wisden stated that there is no record of
Johnston or anyone else actually saying
this, Johnston's co-commentator, Henry
Blofeld, recalled the incident as having taken place
at The Oval in 1976.
Y refused to join the ICC Elite Umpire Panel as it
meant a lot of travelling and officiates in county
cricket.

25. • The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey!