Rules

• QB trying to be God
• 9 rounds, points specified before each round
• All to be ready with their secondary devices now (sorry Deev)
• Let’s go, AND WE SHALL HAVE IT VERY MUCH ON THE MIC
Round 1
Pounce with Direct

+200/-50 for Pounce

+100/-0 for Direct
Question 1
• X is a modern small town in Palestine with a meagre population of 18,000. However, X is more popular as a
prehistoric site. X was first excavated in 1868 by Charles Warren. The two most popular locations of this site,
Tell es-Sultan, and Tulul Abu el-Alayiq were dug up during 1907-1911. Later, empowered with modern
technology, Kathleen Kenyon returned to the site between 1952 and 1958. Current Italian-Palestinian joint
excavation projects have unravelled further facts.
• The earliest excavated settlement was found at a mound (“Tell”) called Tell es-Sultan. X seems to have been
a Natufian camping spot even before it was a permanent agricultural settlement. X is also the sample site used
by archaeologists to study Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B settlements. X was notable for its use of roads above
the roofs and also for the burial of the dead under the floor of the houses.
• In the current context however, X has a completely different meaning. X was one of the first memes that was
given to us by a certain franchise, wherein a billionaire raises his hands, and the entire scenery behind him
erupts.
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 2
What is innovative in this letter?
Answer
gg
Question 3
Aspiring murderers, here’s your getaway. According to the US Constitution, one must be judged by a jury
of one’s peers, i.e., US citizens from the same state and federal district as the point of occurrence of
murder. This makes for a wonderful loophole in the federal district of X, which we mostly know for
wonderful geysers, and breath-taking waterfalls than for legal loopholes, most of which is located in the
state of Wyoming, but some of which spills over into the neighbouring state of Idaho. The Idaho section,
however has a population of 0. Thus, if you commit a murder here, you have no peer, hence, you escape
justice. Gg ez problem solved.
ID X.
Answer
Yellowstone National Park
Question 4
Sometimes people will go to any lengths to get a world record. On June 18, 2007, Jeremy Harper requested off
from work, locked himself in his apartment, turned on the camera and started doing the thing that would ultimately
get him the world record. He spent 16 hours of his day doing the job, livestreaming the entire process, and reserved
the other 8 hours for eating and sleeping. He ordered all the food to his home. Then after 89 days on September 14,
2007, he finally achieved his world record. He even did not shave during this time. This event was livestreamed on
CNN, Fox and Cnet. What world record did Jeremy Harper get?
Answer
Counting manually to a million
Question 5
Put funda to the following list
a. Offering $10,000 to a man who was visiting
b. Producing poison cigars with botulinum toxin
c. Recruiting FBI Top 10 Most Wanted mafiosos, who tried to poison chocolate milkshake with a
pill
d. Rigging a seashell with explosives
e. Infecting a scuba diving suit with tuberculosis
f. Producing a pen with a hypodermic needle instead of a nib, which would eject poison once
pressed, to an official
g. Giving a gun with custom silencer to the same official
Answer
(Confirmed) Fidel Castro assassination attempts by CIA
Question 6
The reason why this children’s game is associated with this specific country in most parts of the
world (except America, OF COURSE) is usually because of two reasons:
a. Due to a specific structure in this country built by prisoners in which soldiers were stationed
at regular distant intervals, which is why due to inefficient hearing, the word got slightly
changed each time it reached the next soldier.
b. b. When the Westerners first arrived here, they could not understand head or tail of the
language the locals spoke. Hence, most of the time the transfer of news did not happen
smoothly, and had a lot of misinformation.
Give me the name of the country, the children’s game, and the structure.
Answer
China, Chinese Whisper, Great Wall of China
Question 7
• The term is mentioned in the minutes of an 1882 meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the
United States. The earliest record in print, according to claims by the Oxford Dictionary, is found in an 1894
article of the Sandusky Register, a local newspaper in Sandusky, Ohio. The American Old West is very much
associated with the term, because author Paul Wellman claims that it stems from Dodge City, Kansas, where
during the nineteenth century there was a saloon by the name of this term.
• There is a widespread etymological origin of this term, which goes that railroad workers carried this item, and
hung it outside the house when they required some leisure, so that their colleagues could hunt them out during
an emergency. Folklorist Barbara Mikkelson, however regards this as unfounded.
• A more plausible explanation stems in Amsterdam circa 1650. The workers of this profession, who were
deprived from proper hygiene, and running fresh water, used this item to camouflage their boils, zits,
inequalities in their face and on the skin. As there were no separated locations in cities, these items were also
used as markers for these houses.
The evolution of what term am I talking about?
Answer
Red Light District
Question 8
The following list of numbers - 23 66 41 9 25 - make absolutely no sense when put right next to
each other but there is a quite a bit of “Shohor Amar Kolkata” funda in it. These signify places
which were originally used for a purpose relevant then but not now. However, in present day
Kolkata they are known for a completely different reason, relevant only during a specific time.
Why were these originally created, and what are they known for in present-day Kolkata?
Answer
Refugee Colonies, Durga Pujos
Question 9
Carp is and has been very commonly bred and reared as food fish for millennia in East Asia.
They are normally grey or silver (take your average katla or rui for example), but sometimes they
produce bright coloured mutations. These mutations were first recorded in imperial China, during
the Jin dynasty. During the Tang dynasty, it became common to raise such mutated carp in
ornamental ponds and water gardens. People started to selectively breed these mutated versions
for ornamental purposes. By the Song dynasty, the mutated variety had flourished in ornamental
ponds. The empress, in 1162, all fish of the ___ variety to be brought into the royal grounds.
Thus, common people had to keep fishes of the ___ variety, which is why in the modern day you
see more ___ than ___ fish, which has confused many people including me and (probably?)
yourself.
What am I talking about?
Answer
Goldfish
Question 10
Connect
Answer
Ghats of Kolkata
Question 11
Put funda
Answer
Lmao
Question 12
X is a word stemming from the Old English “valere”, meaning courage or personal
bravery. X’s use by the common public can be credited to a game released in 2020,
whose name ideally means “someone with X”. ID the game.
Answer
Round 2
Pounce with Direct

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+100/-0 for Direct
Question 1
• Indian Ayurveda, Chinese yin-yang and western humoral medicine, though, developed independently all rely
on the same basic principle of humours, according to which an ingredient can consist of either of the four
humours – hotness, coldness, dryness and wetness. It is the hot and dry elements that increase the rate of
metabolism of the body.
• Though humoral medicine has lost itself in the Western world, it is still used both as medicine and in cooking
in Iran. This is probably the reason why Margaret Shaida blatantly calls the Indian spice X as descended from
the Persian advieh spice mix. It is quite true actually, because X is absolutely not used in South India, which is
more dependent on Ayurveda.
• Famed author of cookbooks, Yamuna Devi also lists the variations of X throughout the states of India in
increasing order of complexity - Delhi (basic five ingredients), Rajasthani (5, adds ajwain), Gujarati (9,
including coconut), Punjabi (11, including mace and nutmeg), Maharashtrian (12, including ginger and
sesame), Bengali (12, including green, black and white pepper) to UP (13, including anardana and saffron).
ID X.
Answer
Garam Masala
Question 2
Put funda
Answer
Netaji’s escape route
Question 3
Connect
Answer
Lal Mohan Ganguli Novels
Question 4
• X, originally believed to have been domesticated independently multiple times across the South
American continent, was later found to be actually only domesticated in southern Peru and extreme
north-western Bolivia. It was later brought to our country and since then has become an integral part of
country’s cuisine. The fact that it was brought from outside India, is evident from the fact that, along
the Konkan coast, it is still known by its foreign name. This is why most of the time you shall find very
little use of Y in bhog because it is not an originally Indian item.
• Y is now an indispensable part of Bengali cuisine, thus it is hard to believe that the production of it was
actually considered a crime in medieval times, because it involved splitting a very pure substance.
However, when we learnt it, we just couldn’t dispense it. We integrated it into all our desserts.
ID X & Y. (Brownie for their connection)
Answer
Potato, Chhana, both introduced by Portuguese
Question 5
Connect
Answer
gg
Question 6
• X is a character from Homer’s Iliad, the son of Aeolus. He is also the establisher of the Isthmian
Games, the athletic and musical events held to honour the sea god Poseidon. When Death (i.e., Hades)
came to fetch him, X chained him up. Ultimately Ares helped Hades, and X had to go the underworld,
but he had asked his wife Meropes to not bury his body, thus when he reached the Underworld, he was
again asked to return to Earth, which is why X is said to have cheated Death. X was punished for this
act of his by pushing a rock up a hill for eternity.
• Y is another character from the same epic, with no apparent relation to X. Y had killed another boy
over a game during childhood, and thus his father Menoetius had given him over to Achilles’ father.
Achilles and Y thus grew up together, and their relationship in the Iliad is one of deep friendship.
However, few of the later writers, claimed it to be a homosexual romantic relationship.
ID X and Y.
Answer
Sisyphus and Patroclus
Question 7
• We again take a dig into American legal (Suits much?). X is an American fast-food chain known by us
commonfolk for only one type of food. It started in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida as Insta-X. After Insta-X ran
into financial difficulties in 1954, two of its Miami franchisees bought the entire company and named it X.
Since then, it has been pretty much an upward curve for X.
• However, the dispute started when X expanded to Illinois, where in Mattoon, there already existed a stand-
alone restaurant called X. X had been set up in 1952, and had received a state trademark for the name X.
However, the fast-food chain X had a federal trademark, for the name. Thus started an illustrious Federal
Court case whose ultimate verdict also provided an important interpretation of the Lanham Act.
• Both sides had a win in this, as the court ruled that since the fast-food chain X had a federal trademark, they
could use it anywhere in the country and internationally, even in Illinois, except in the Mattoon area, where the
restaurant had prior use of the name. The Mattoon area was written down to be a circle of 20-mile radius with
the restaurant X as the centre.
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 8
I went to X when I was two years old, and spent the entire time sleeping in a
perambulator (typical Sunhrit behaviour, remind me to kill myself after the quiz). I now
see in the pictures that my father took, how innovative people can be, and how captivity
can give rise to wonderful ideas. Beside the basins, the entire wall is cracked because
the captives tried to use the path of the plumbery (Chamber of Secrets, lessgoo). Only
three escapes have happened from the building of X. Two of them were shot within the
island, and one was able to escape, though the American government refuses to accept
that. X is also the basis of a 1979 Clint Eastwood starrer. ID X.
Answer
Alcatraz
Question 9
The following are types of what?
a. Beverages (B) – Freeze-dried drinks mixes (tea, coffee) or flavoured drinks (lemonade or orange drink) are
provided in vacuum sealed beverage pouches.
b. Fresh Foods (FF) – Fresh fruits, vegetables, tortillas are delivered by resupply missions. These foods spoil
quickly and need to be eaten within two days of arrival.
c. Irradiated Meat (I) – Beef steak is sterilised with ionising radiation to keep the food from spoiling.
d. Intermediate Moisture (IM) – Sausages and beef jerky with some moisture but not enough to cause
immediate spoilage.
e. Natural Form (NF) – Nuts, cookies and granola bars are shelf-stable food requiring no extra preservation.
f. Rehydratable foods (R) – Freeze-dried, heat-dried or osmotic-dried foods are rehydrated to eat.
g. Thermostabilised (T) - This process heats foods to destroy pathogens, microorganism and enzymes that may
cause spoilage.
h. Extended shelf-life bread products – Scones, waffles and rolls specially formulated to have a shelf life of up
to 18 months.
Answer
Astronaut food/Space food
Question 10
X is a city in Eastern Europe located on the Danube. There are two parts to the city, on the opposite sides
of the Danube which are considered to be two different towns, and X is basically the names of those two
towns side by side (Say the two towns are Sun and Hrit, then X is Sunhrit). X was first established by the
Celtics and now is extremely strong in terms of commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research,
technology, education and entertainment. X was referenced in the MCU several times, particularly in
conversations of two characters, and it was a long-standing question of fans as to what really happened in
X. In 2021, people got excited due to the release of a particular film, that they thought would ultimately
solve all their doubts and give them a good night’s sleep, but “2021 was such a shit Marvel year”
(Aryaman Banerjee, 2022), so though we got to see a pretty huge chase through the city of X, we never
actually got to see what we wanted to.
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 11
• One of the first crops to be domesticated was the wheat in and around Jericho about 10,000 years
ago. The crop X was also domesticated around the same time in South America. X was Y-ed all the
way back in 4700 BC in Peruvian cultures. YX was popular in 19 th century northern American East
Coast, and mostly stove tops were used for the process. With the invention of the steam-powered,
mobile YX maker by Chicago-based candy maker Charles Cretors, who had basically modified his
steam-powered nut roasters, there was an explosion in YX sales. The Great Depression also
aggravated the process, with the unemployed finding it easier to buy a bag of YXs at 5 to 10 cents.
• Z is a type of electromagnetic radiation with a frequency between infrared and radio. Short waves
were used to heat human tissue and by 1930 it had evolved into the medical treatment known as
diathermy. A 10 kW, 60 MHZ Z transmitter coupled with two metal plates was used for an invention
in the Chicago (again) World Fair of 1930 for an invention that is part of our everyday lives and I
learnt to use on 4th February 2022.
• Z YX is a type of YX.
ID Z YX.
Answer
gg
Question 12
• X is a colour, that has multiple applications across spheres. The lighter aerospace version of X hex
coded at #FF4F00, was used for the Advanced Crew Escape Suits, Launch Entry Suits, and
Constellation Space Suits developed by NASA. Their tone was deeper than the one used for the
United States Air Force high-altitude suits.
• X is also used in engineering (this one is deeper, and has a hex code of #BA160C) as colouration for
many buildings, and has an approved federal standard. The Tokyo Tower, the Yerevan TV Tower and
the antenna atop the Main Tower in Frankfurt, Germany are all coloured in X and white, according to
air safety regulations with regard to their height.
• X also has a third version, which fits neatly between the above two in tone. It is only and specifically
used for Y. Y is a structure completed in 1937 that was coloured such so that it was visible to the
ships visiting the bay, so that they could see it even amidst the fog. X has now become a kind of
trademark for Y.
ID X and Y.
Answer
International Orange, Golden Gate Bridge
Round 3
Pounce

+200/-50
Question 1
X is a 2011 single from the Australian singer Lenka’s second music album Two. The
song is notable for its use of similes. X is not a song that you would listen to everyday,
however X gained brief popularity when it was used in a Windows 8 ad, a Nokia Lumia
ad, and recently in 2021, in a streaming service’s India ad. Since then it has also gained
popularity, though not much, as a meme.
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 2
Which fictional piece of art is being described here?
“ The _________ ’neath ancient Roslin waits.
Adorned in masters’ loving art, She lies.
The blade and chalice guarding o’er Her gates
She rests at last beneath the starry skies.”
Answer
gg
Question 3
Connect
Answer
Indian Classical Ragas
Question 4
The word X is used to describe any piece of clothing that has several layers woven
together, not necessarily the purpose it is used for now. A long time ago in a galaxy far,
far away, when women of the house used to be done with a saree, or any piece of
clothing for that they would straighten it out into one single flat cloth. When multiple
such cloths were collected, they would be woven together thus creating an X. Since
widows were pretty common during the time, and had a lot of time on their hands, they
used to even make designs on Xs, thus creating YXs. Y basically means design. YX is
also the name of a serial that used to air on Zee Bangla a few years ago. ID YX.
Answer
Nakshi Kantha
Question 5
ID the singer
Answer
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Question 6
What objects was this mosaic made with?
Answer
Rubik’s cubes
Question 7
ID the soundtrack.
Answer
Flight
Question 8
When X was asked to make a piece as contemporary requirement for a piano
competition by the Maryland Summer Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts in
1985, he made the piece Y. Y had 8 parts, one of which could be skipped and one could
be repeated by the artist according to their choice. However, the speciality of Y was that
no tempo was specified for it.
Y became even more ridiculous when an organ version was produced for it. Then in
1997, in an organ conference, some geniuses decided to set up a 639 year long rendition
of it at the St Buchardi’s Church in Halberstadt, Germany with a specially designed
organ.
ID X and Y.
Answer
John Cage, ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)
Question 9
The X symbol, first found propagated in the Roman Empire where it was used for
weight measures, was called libra pondo and looked something like this - ℔. Its first use
in ordinality is from an 1853 treatise on bookkeeping. A few years later came along
another book which cleared the fact that writing it before a numeral represented
ordinality while writing it after a numeral represented mass. Modern-day usage is,
however very far from these two, however.
Y is another symbol, similar to X, but with left to right rising diagonal lines instead of
horizontal lines. Y is frequently used in music.
ID X and Y.
Answer
Hash/Pound symbol, Sharp symbol
Question 10
Who is the subject of this painting? Who is the painter?
Answer
Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci
Round 4
Pounce

+200/-50
Long Connect scores written on each
question
Question 1 (+1000/-500)
• X was an Indian politician born in Calcutta of British India. After graduating from the then-Hindu College,
now Presidency College, he went to London, for his law degree at the University College, London. It is here
that he first came in contact with politics, and became a political activist. He attended classes of political
organisation, constitutional law, international law and anthropology at the London School of Economics. This
is why he is also considered an alumnus of both UCL, and LSE. He established the London Majlis, for
reception of England-visiting Indian independence leaders, and was its first public secretary. It was through
the Majlis, that he came in contact with many independence leaders.
• X’s true political career started when he returned to India in 1940, and became affiliated as an activist with
the Communist Party of India, which was strongly discouraged by his relatively well-off family. At the time,
the Party had been declared illegal. After independence, the policy of the Congress to make West Bengal into
a police state, was strongly opposed by X. Later, when there arose a rift within the party regarding the border
tensions of India and China, X joined the Marxist faction. X was even offered the position of Prime Minister.
However, he rejected it which the Party, to date refers it as its “historic mistake”.
ID X.
Answer (+1000/-500)
Jyoti Basu
Question 2 (+900/-450)
The earliest historical reference to this is found in the Hebrew Bible, Nehemiah 2:7-9 King Artaxerxes I
of Persia of granted one of his officials, Nehemiah permission to travel to Judaea, by means of a letter to
travel beyond the river. The Chinese documents (called zhuans) originating as early as the Western Han
empire, were granted as permissions to citizens to travel through imperial countries. Even the second
chapter of the Arthashastra mentions such documents.
The etymological reference, however, is found in medieval Europe where a document was given to pass
through the gate of the city. This document was issued to foreign travellers, and not local citizens.
Contrary to popular belief however, such a document was never required to travel to a seaport as they
were considered open trading points. However, to come inland from a sea port, one did require this.
The absolute modern form of the document, was established by Henry V of England, through the 1414
Act of Parliament. The types of this document include regular, diplomatic and official, emergency, ones
without right of abode, and regional/subnational.
What documents am I talking about?
Answer (+900/-450)
Passport
Question 3 (+800/-400)
ID
Answer (+800/-400)
Donald Trump
Question 4 (+700/-350)
The nickname in question is actually not for the tower but rather the largest bell stored
inside it, which rings at the hour mark. However, in time it has come to represent both
the bell and the tower. The four sides each have a separate symbol, to represent the
different nationalities. There is a rose, a thistle, a shamrock and a leek. Though it shares
its official name with an immortal monarch, there are two distinct and equally supported
theories about its nickname. It could either have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, a
very large man, was the first administrator of the works or Benjamin Caunt, a very
famous heavyweight boxing champion had a nickname which became the euphemism
for something which was the biggest in its class, so the nicknaming.
What am I talking about?
Answer (+700/-350)
Big Ben
Question 5 (+600/-300)
X, a legendary creature, with a connection to the pivotal character in “Family Guy”, was
first referenced in the Levant around the 2nd millennium BCE and then spread to the rest
of Asia. The Asiatic version had a crested head while the Minoan and Greek versions
had a mane of spiralling curls. ID X.
Answer (+600/-300)
Griffin
Question 6 (+500/-250)
The fourth largest flyover in the country, this was constructed by Hindustan
Construction Company barring an approximately 700m stretch. In its initial stages it
produced massive traffic jams because it opened without the construction of the west
bound flank. ID this flyover which is literally a connect to the long connect.
Answer (+500/-250)
Maa Flyover
Long Connect Answer
EM Bypass
Jyoti Basu – Jyoti Basu Sarani
Passport – Anandapur 781 Passport Office
Trump – Trump Tower
Big Ben – Big Ben near Sreebhumi
Griffin – Logo of JW Marriot – JW Marriot
Maa Flyover (do I really need to explain this?)
Round 5
Streak Pounce with Direct

+200/-50 for Pounce

+100/-50 as streak goes on
Question 1
On 23 October 2011, in a Manchester derby match, Yaya Toure received an outside
throw from Adam Milnes, and passed it to David Silva, who charged into the penalty
area, passed it on Milnes, who kicked it back to X in the penalty arc. X shot it into the
corner of the goal, and raised his jersey over the head, displaying his undershirt with
very iconic lines written on it in celebration. What was this celebration?
Answer
gg
Question 2
• Alfred Grace Thompson was initially a saddle and harness maker of horses, having been taught the art
by his father. He however, found his job threatened by the advent of the motor car, so he set up AG
Thompson Pvt Ltd., where he initially manufactured cricket balls. AG Thompson had a pet X called
Jacky, who resided in a peppercorn tree outside his house and workshop at Bay Street, Brighton. Thus,
came about the X brand.
• This X brand later in 1990, became the name of the entire company, and the company is now called X
Sport. The X did sponsor a leather ball much like a white cricket ball for the hockey of 1956 Olympic
Games. However, X’s grand association with hockey when the R&D department came up with the X
Dimple Elite hockey ball, which was used in the 1984 World Cup and subsequently in all international
hockey competitions. As a result, this is now the only ball with global approval from the International
Hockey Federation (FIH).
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 3
Who said the following very-CBSE lines?
“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty
thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women.
They're too much fun.”
Answer
Babe Ruth
Question 4
Neurologist becomes Sorcerer Supreme. Well, that’s Doctor Strange. What if neurologist
becomes Mile Runner Supreme? Who am I talking about?
Answer
Roger Bannister (The 4-Minute Mile Man)
Question 5
Connect
Answer
“Sea”-prefixed animals
Question 6
• X was a mythical Greek mortal, daughter of a shepherd. Taking training in weaving from early in life, she had
become a great weaver. She not only boasted about her skill, but even said her skill was greater than Athena’s,
the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare, and was in no way derived from the goddess. This obviously
enraged Athena who came to her as an old woman so that she may ask forgiveness from Athena.
• However, X stayed stubborn in her view, and Athena threw off her disguise. The goddess then challenged X
to a weaving contest, wherein X weaved the story of how Zeus and the other gods misled and abused mortals.
X even showed how the male gods were outrageous womanisers. X’s tapestry was not only better looking
than Athena’s, it had also insulted the gods.
• That was it for Athena, she took her own shuttle, and beat X up with it. X couldn’t bear this pain and shame,
and hanged herself. However, out of her own guilt and love for X, Athena gave her the boon that she would
live forever, hanged as she was, and weaving. Her descendants would also be natural weavers. Now here
comes the top 10 anime plot twist, some of X’s descendants, including the one who lives the highest, don’t
weave or hang now, they just jump around.
ID X and her descendants.
Answer
Arachne, Spiders
Question 7
• The Murex are a group of medium sized predatory sea snails found in the Mediterranean Sea and off the
Atlantic coast of Morocco. These snails have mucous secretions which mainly contain a chemical 6,6-
dibromoindigo, which is used for a dye for a colour. In nature, these secretions are used to sedate prey, and
for antimicrobial linings on egg masses. The snails also excrete this substance when attacked by a predator.
This is the exact mechanism that was first employed by humans to extract this substance
• However, later due to high demand from aristocratic families all over the world, this slower and more labour
extensive method could not be employed anymore. Snails were crushed and destroyed. However, 10,000
snails yielded only 1.4g of the substance. This is why this colour could only be afforded by the royals.
• This is also the reason you will never see this colour on a national flag. Practically, it was too expensive.
However, metaphorically, there are two other considerable reasons as well. This colour represents royalty and
monarchy, which most countries have now opted out of. The colour also represents mourning which no one
wants to show on their national flag.
What colour have I been talking about?
Answer
Purple (the specific colour is Tyrian purple, however this works)
Question 8
“X X X X X X X X” is a legit English sentence. Well, it’s actually “X from X, X
another X from X, which also X, X from X”. In this case, X is a city in the New York
State, an animal and a 19th century American English word meaning “bully”. In fact, this
sentence can be created with any word that means a place, a common noun and a verb.
For example, “Police police police police police police police police.” ID X.
Answer
Buffalo
Question 9
Connect
Answer
WWE Wrestlers
Question 10
• Due to the striking similarity, between the modern-day spellings, we might be misled
that there is some sort of connection between the swear and the animal. However, the
modern-day swear actually originates from the British English version, which
originates from the Proto-Germanic, which itself roots itself back 8000 years to the
Proto-Indo-European ors, which later evolved into the Greek orros, and Ancient
Hittite arrash.
• The word for the animal however, has a more Asian, or more correctly, Middle
Eastern route. These odd-toed wild ungulates were first found in the deserts of Egypt
and Arabia. They are referred to as ansu in the Sumerian language, which might be a
possible root for the modern-day name of the animal.
Give me the British English swear, and the name of the animal.
Answer
Arse, Ass
Round 6
Buzzer

+300/-100
Question 1
Who is he? What did he do?
Answer
Kumar Eswaran, allegedly solved the Riemann Hypothesis
Question 2
• X is a typeface style popularly used in math texts and classrooms. It involves doubling of the vertical
or near vertical lines of the letters. For writing these characters on a typewriter, the letters are double
struck by a small offset. Such characters are known as an “inline”, “shadow” and “tooled” characters.
• X originates from math classrooms where there was a need to differentiate bold and non-bold
characters. This was done using the edge of a chalk rather than using the point of the chalk. The first
use of this typeface in typing was in the Gunning and Rossi’s textbook on complex analysis. Lindsay
Child’s A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra and Edward Barbeau’s University of Toronto
Mathematics Competitions (2001-2015) used the X style, while some other texts preferred the use of
simple boldface.
• There is no direct support for this typeface in LaTeX but the additional American Mathematical
Society add-on, can be used for these characters. The common ones of this characters, is included in
the BMP Letter-like symbols area of Unicode.
ID X / What is the most popular use of these characters?
Answer
Blackboard Bold/Sets of Numbers
Question 3
Put funda
Answer
International Phonetic Alphabet
Question 4
Connect
Answer
Discord in-built commands
Question 5
• In 1494, Luca Pacioli, Leonardo da Vinci’s math teacher publishes the most comprehensive collection of math in the
Renaissance. Here he declares a solution to a class of math problems impossible. In the 11 th century, Arab mathematician Omay
Khayyam had specified 19 forms of the same problem. He had even solved some of them using the intersection of circles and
hyperbolas. However, he too, had not been able to find a general solution to this problem.
• In Bologna, 1510, the solution starts to take shape. Scipione del Ferro, a math professor at the University of Bologna finds a
solution to a specific kind of these problems but he hides it…for two decades, until he falls sick and gives the solution to his
assistant Antonio Fior. Fior was neither as wise or as brilliant as del Ferro. He boasts that he can solve such a problem, and
challenges Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia to a math duel, on February 12, 1535.
• Tartaglia finds himself in trouble. He knows Fior can solve that specific kind of problem, and finds a solution to it himself. On
the day of the math duel, Tartaglia gives Fior an assortment of problems, while Fior gives to Tartaglia thirty problems, all of them
the specific kind Fior can solve. This plunges Fior into darkness, while Tartaglia becomes a celebrated mathematician. Around
this time, Gerolamo Cardano approaches Tartaglia for the solution.
• Tartaglia is lured to Cardano’s abode in Milan, where he tells the solution to Cardano, but makes him swear an oath to never tell
it to anyone else, not to publish it, and write it down only in cipher. In 1542 Cardano meets the son-in-law of del Ferro, and looks
at del Ferro’s original solution. In 1545, Cardano publishes Artis Magnae, an updated compendium of mathematics. Here, he
publishes the solution to this class of problems.
What have I been blabbering about for the past three hours?
Answer
gg

3 2
𝑎 𝑥 +𝑏 𝑥 + 𝑐𝑥+ 𝑑=0
Question 6
The 64-base system, which looks something like this is seen in 11 digits by us every day
(I mean, hopefully). It is used to make a unique ID for each specific item on a particular
website. What is it used for?
Answer
YouTube Video IDs
Question 7
• The X-or-Y causality dilemma can be found mentioned as early as Aristotle in the fourth
century BCE. He argued that it just went on infinitively, and did not have a solution. Plutarch,
four centuries later, in his book, “The Symposiacs”, extended it to the point of whether the
world had a beginning or not. By the Christian age, the problem had pretty much been settled,
because of the way the Bible referred to creation, and said the X was the clear winner.
• The problem resurfaced again with modern philosophers, and has now become a metaphoric
problem finding application in biology, economics, geography, physics pretty much anywhere.
Now through modern science we know that a Y existed much before an X did, because the
method of using Ys was used by many things even before Xs. Even if an X’s Y be considered,
Xs evolved from wilder versions, and hence the X must have come from a Y, which was in fact
an X’s Y.
ID X and Y.
Answer
Chicken and Egg
Question 8
Sometimes one thing leads to another, and then you realise two completely unrelated things are
connected. Quite similar is the relation between the X Corporation and the Calcutta Police. Though
X is now majorly owned by the MIT (the non-girlfriend-in-suitcase-smuggling one), X was
originally established by YX. YX’s father Noni Gopal had been a physics student at Rajabajar
Science College, and had written a radical pamphlet, for which the Calcutta Police were on his
chase. Thus, he escaped to Philadelphia, USA.
Here, YX was born to Charlotte and Noni. YX became a student at the MIT. YX was quite
displeased with the current systems that existed, and thus set about making something new. Well,
new he made. X 901, the most popular model of the company made use of reflections off walls and
ceilings, and most of X’s products still employ the same method. YX strongly believed in human
satisfaction, which is why you shall never find mention of any specs on X items.
ID X, and the person.
Answer
Bose, Amar Gopal Bose
Question 9
Connect
Answer
gg
Question 10
Which San-Jose, California company started by Eric Yuan as Saasbee Inc., and later
changed to its current name inspired by a Thatcher Hurd novel, saw meteoric rise
through the pandemic, and is literally our rider and provider right now?
Answer
gg
Round 7
Buzzer

+300/-100
Question 1
Connect
Answer
Indian YouTubers
Question 2
• It all starts in a cave, doesn’t it? If you can call an old army barrack of a college, then why not?
Lilavati Munshi who was the wife of then food minister KM Munshi started the All-India
Women’s Central Food Council, under which multiple restaurants (Annapoornas in fancy lingo)
were set up across the country. The problem however was trained professionals. Catering
training was something that had only separated itself as a new subject in 1954. Thus, X started
in 1954 with 6 students in its first year.
• X got its own building 4 years later in 1958 on a state-leased land plot in Dadar, which is from
where its old name stems. In 1982, X was integrated into the national network by the newly
formed board responsible for overseeing this sort of education. X’s name was also changed to a
more general format. However, X still remains the best in its class, and is chosen by people for
their higher studies when they get an AIR 6 in the JEE.
ID X.
Answer
Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition,
Mumbai
Question 3
When I first read the book, and found the author referring to Y as X, and saying that X
was what the people of Y called Y, I felt genuinely enraged, at conversion of history into
such nonsensical fiction. However, my point of view about the matter completely
changed when I read another book about Z, one of the rivers that supported the Y. It
referred to a document found at one of the Mesopotamian ports, where in the
Mesopotamian script, Y was really referred to as X. Apparently, Y and Mesopotamia had
a lot of trade in between them both over land and through the ocean. Y was known in
Mesopotamia, for its pottery, and lapis lazuli. ID X and Y.
Answer
Meluha, Indus Valley Civilisation
Question 4
• The first recorded contact with the X was in 1867, when an Indian merchant ship crashed onto the island, and
the X attacked them. The crew were later saved by another merchant ship. Thereafter, the British maintained
periodic contact with the X till 1887, forth which we make a jump cut to 1970 when a group of
anthropologists failed at contact with the X. Tragedy struck when a few National Geographic employees went
too near to the island, and ended up being killed, except for the director, who got an arrow in his thigh.
• In 1981, a boat shored up, and radioed for help immediately because they saw the X making boats to attack.
This boat is still visible on Google Maps, the crew however were rescued by a helicopter. In 1991, for the
first time, a group of anthropologists made successful contact with the X. In 2004, when the Indian tsunami
struck, a helicopter was sent to check up on the X, which was literally warned off by a bowed warrior.
Tragedy again struck in 2006, when a group of illegal fishermen drifted too close to the island, and were
killed by the X, even the rescue helicopter was shooed away. The Indian government has since then banned
all contact with the X, and has set up a navy-patrolled perimeter around it with a radius of 3 miles.
ID X.
Answer
Sentinelese
Question 5
ID X, Y; Put funda.
• X – the original, in Sanskrit
• Adbhut, and Adhyatma – also in Sanskrit, more philosophical
• Y – in Bengali, adds the story of the forest hut perimeter
• Slightly renamed – by Tulsidas, in Awadhi
• Bhavartha – in Marathi, by Eknath
• Kambuki – in Eramavataram, a predecessor of Tamil
• Dandi – by Balaram Das, in Odia
Answer
Valmiki, Krittibas, Ramayana
Question 6
#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly:

An entire village suffers because one man had too much ego and too less (pun intended)
hands.
Answer
Shol-jay
Question 7
• X is a name for the global leader of the Sunni Muslims. It was first adopted by Abu-
Bakr, the one who started Sunni sect of Muslims. X was retained by Abu-Bakr’s
descendants till the Ottoman capture of Istanbul forth which the Ottoman Sultans
held it.
• We primarily know X because of two reasons. YX is the name of a building that was
modelled after a spider lily, and is also known to us (us as in the ones in the meeting
right now), because of a certain event in October 2021.
• If you know the other reason, you know it. If you don’t, I can’t elaborate, thank you.
ID X, and the October 2021 event.
Answer
Khalifa; Sree Bhumi Burj Khalifa pandal
Question 8
What is the following a map of?
Answer
Language Families of India
Question 9
Connect
Answer
gg
Question 10
In India, the act of X has only occurred thrice during history:
a. Mohammad bin Tughlaq, the “confused genius” was the first one to do this. The story starts with him
shifting the capital to Devgiri from Delhi, and asking the entire population to shift overnight thus causing
multiple deaths, and then doubling the fatalities by immediately asking the travellers to return march to
Delhi. This resulted in widespread famine and thus the amount of revenue started to reduce. Tughlaq also
had to start reform programs and ward off Mongol attacks, further emptying the coffers. This is when he
came up with the plan of copper and brass coins instead of the gold and silver ones. The copper and brass
ones could be exchanged for a fixed amount of gold and silver. This however, lead to widespread forgery,
thereby calling for discontinuation.
b.The second time was Akbar, when he declared the local currency of any new kingdom he conquered, and
replaced them with the Mughal coins.
c. The third and final time on 8 October, 2016 by Y.
ID X and Y.
Answer
gg
Round 8
Streak Buzzer

+300/-100 for Buzzer

+200/-100 as streak goes on
Question 1
ID the name of the piece (specific answer).
Answer
The Quidditch Match
Question 2
• The X show started airing on the Adult Swim network on May 20, 2012. The show’s distinctive feature is that
after the announcer says the “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the X show”, X runs onto the set while the opening
song is still going on and breaks chairs, destroys tables, throws around objects, basically creates a mess out of
the set. Once the song gets over, stagehands replace the broken furniture with new usable furniture, and then
the co-host comes on to the stage, often accompanied by weak and uninterested applause. X begins with a
monologue, subject to quips and derides by his co-host, and then the celebrity enters. The main aim of the
show was to parody low-budget public-access talk shows.
• The state of Y, in USA, is quite often confused as having a connection to the Italian dried herb Y-o. Y has the
smallest park in the world, Mill Ends Park, a circle of a mere 1-foot radius, with just one tree, yet qualified
enough to be a city park. Y is also one of the first states in the US to legalise physician-assisted suicide. Y is
also known for being the only state in the US with two different sides of the flag, the state seal on the obverse
side, and a golden beaver on the reverse.
• The meme Z that we’re talking about is a remix of a popular piece of text from the X show and the song “Y
Spirit” by Rolf Kruger.
ID X, Y, Z.
Answer
We’ll be Right Back (insert meme)
Question 3
Where exactly are these pictures from?
Answer
Lex Luthor’s metahuman drive
Question 4
Connect
Answer
gg
Question 5
• X is a 1960 black-and-white psychological horror film. While it is technically a
horror film, it is more so because of human acts rather than supernatural occurrences
which makes it a perfect candidate for a slasher film, and is even considered the first
of its kind in this genre. X involves an on-the-run embezzler, his lover, her sister, a
private detective and a shy motel proprietor.
• While X itself is an extremely critically acclaimed and popular film, X gained brief
popularity due to comparison by media with a strange and chilling incident that
happened on Robinson Street, Kolkata in 2015.
ID X, and what Kolkata incident am I talking about?
Answer
The Psycho, Konkal Kando
Question 6
This restaurant (picture next slide) is called La Laggio del Piazzale Michelangelo and
located at a city in Italy, is mostly known to us as the annual detour of a probably senile
retired butler who goes there in the hoping of spotting his master sitting with a pretty
lady and living a happy, settled life. We get to see the location only twice, once when the
butler describes this to his master, and once when he actually sees his master sitting
there as envisioned, which also shows us that the master had not died of the nuclear
fallout, though his grave had been built at his ancestral house. What am I talking about?
Answer
Florence Café in Dark Knight Rises
Question 7
• Some words though seemingly modern, have origins that date back centuries. The earliest references
to X date back to the 1890s, where it was primarily popular as a form of address to males, even those
who weren’t family. The more informal usage of this word for referring to someone a friend as close
as a sibling originated around the 1960s.
• X’s online usage is notable since the 1990s, and the spread as an interjection started in the 2010s.
Though originally used for awkward moments, it later evolved to be used in just any situation. X’s
spread as a meme originates with the NBA player John Wall leaning over a bench, and the word X
written as a caption.
• The audio clip that we associate with X started with a video of high school basketball star Tony
Farmer collapsing in court after being sentenced to three years of prison for robbery, sexual assault,
and kidnapping of his girlfriend, with the dubbed voice of viner Headgraphix saying “X” uploaded by
fellow viner CallMeBzar.
• X is also my entire life.
ID X.
Answer
gg
Question 8
Answer
gg
Question 9
Connect
Answer
Quentin Tarantino films
Question 10
• X is the westernmost and largest region of the Czech lands, now located in the Czech Republic.
Roman gypsies from X, who came to France during the 18 th century were often looked down
upon, and thus X-n was mostly used as a derogatory term to refer to people. X’s current use as
a person of arts who lives an irregular lifestyle evolved much later. X was also the part of the
name of a chartbuster 1975 song, which was initially treated as a song about relationships with
a bit of nonsense in the middle, however, now, it is quite confirmed that X was indeed the
secretive coming out song of the singer, who couldn’t do so openly because of communal
obligations.
• Y is a district in the metropolis of London, mostly in the City of Westminster, but some of it
also spilling over into the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Y mostly lies to the south
of the Buckingham Palace. The area is mostly residential, barring the Y Square and the Eaton
Square. Commonly known as “The Five Fields”, Y was infamous for highwaymen and
robberies during the Tudor Period.
ID X, Y and give me the pop culture reference.
Answer
Bohemia, Belgravia, Scandal in Bohemia/Belgravia
Round 9
Bidding

Bids of +100/-0, +200/-50, +300/-150,

+400/-250, +500/-350
Question 1 – Medieval European History
• The actual origins of triskaidekaphobia are debatable. The most popular story relates to Norse gods, and Loki. 12 of
them were having a great feast at Valhalla. Loki came as the uninvited guest, and with his master trickery convinced
Höðr to shoot Balder with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died and the entire Earth got dark. It was a day of
mourning. This fear is still visible in plane rows.
• The compounding effect of this phobia however can be found connected to the Knights Templar. The Poor Fellow-
Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, simply known as the Knights Templar were a military order under
the Catholic Church, they were one of the most formidable forces and were said to have brought back the Holy
Grail (cough Da Vinci Code cough) from Jerusalem.
• The Templars had lent a considerable amount of money to the King of France, Phillip IV for his wars against
England. The Pope had called the leaders of the Templars and the Hospitallers for a possible merger of the two
orders, to France. It was here that the Pope discussed some rumours about the Templars with de Molay (their
leader) in front of Phillip, which varied from spitting on the Cross, despising Christ, indecent kissing and
homosexuality.
• Phillip then decided to use these against the Templars and rid himself of his debts, and arrested de Molay and
several other French Templars on a Friday in the October of 1307, and later burnt and hanged them. This led to the
start of this omen.
What am I talking about?
Answer
Friday the Thirteenth
Question 2 – Indian TV Shows
Connect 10
Answer
Indian Quiz Shows
Question 3 - Dinosaurs
• When workers of the ACC Cement Quarry in the village of Rahioli near the city of Balasinor
in Gujarat found limestone deposits near the Narmada river, they immediately reported it to
the Geological Survey of India, specifically two gentlemen by the name of G. N. Dwivedi and
Dhananjay Mahendrakumar Mohabey. This led to the discovery of the Lameta Formation, the
“dinosaur-fields” of India. Geologist Suresh Srivastava was sent on two different trips for
excavating the remains.
• When the above-mentioned limestone deposits were actually discovered to be dinosaur eggs,
two research groups from the American Institute of Indian Studies and National Geographic
Society were sent to India in 2001. With the help of the Panjab University, they attempted to
reconstruct the remains found by Srivastava. A portion of the upper jaw was also found in the
northern part of the Lameta Formation near Jabalpur. In 2003, the dinosaur was formally
described by Jeffrey A. Wilson and colleagues.
Which genus/species am I talking about?
Answer
Rajasaurus narmadensis
Question 4 - Books
• X is a format of books which does not use the standard carboard covering, and the pages are stuck together glue
rather than staples or threads. The existence of Xs can be traced back to the pamphlets, dime novels and airport
novels, which were extremely cheap and had low-quality writing. With numerous improvements in printing,
publishing and book distribution, steam printers, pulp mills, automatic type-setting and improvement in network of
railways, it was possible to make cheaper versions of bestselling books. Simms and McIntyre of Belfast and other
publishers participated in this business. It was popular in Britain and Germany.
• Albatross Books (German) tried innovation of mass-market Xs in 1931, but then Hitler went No Jews, No Books,
No normal education, and it was delayed. Allen Lane on the other hand copied the exact model of Albatross in 1935,
and bought copyright from publishers to print large number of books per edition, thereby establishing Penguin. A
collaboration with Woodworks, a large retailer, boosted Penguin’s business. Penguin eventually became synonymous
with X. Robert de Graaf used Penguin’s model in the USA where Xs were renamed to pocket books. Schimon &
Schuster became the Woodworks.
• Xs also brought about the end of pulp magazines. People somehow preferred to read low quality books rather than
low quality magazines. Illustrators from pulp magazines were also hired, thereby bringing to an end, the pulp age.
ID X.
Answer
Paperback
Question 5 – UCL Football
• X was a historical German state, which Gen-Z students while reading will often
confuse with a revolution-loving and invasion-loving country, which was
established in 1525, and was what you can call a medieval German empire. It was
dissociated during the Weimar Republic, and completely stripped off after 1947.
• The Latin name of X is Y.
What is the significance of Y in modern-day European football?
Answer
gg
Question 6 - Etymologies
The origin of the word stems from the ancient Greek γυμνάσιο which means a public
place for training. It stems from the Greek word for naked since trainers usually
undressed in Apodyteriums, applied olive oil and then rubbed naked bodies against
each other while training. These places later evolved to be places of communal bathing
as well as scholarly and philosophical pursuit. What exactly am I talking about?
Answer
Gymnasium
Question 7 - Memes
Connect
Answer
gg
Question 8 - Cricket
In the early days of cricket, such a rule did not exist. The batsmen could literally do anything
to prevent themselves from being dismissed from the field. In 1622, some men playing cricket
in the churchyard on 5 May, were prosecuted for
a) playing in the churchyard
b) breaking church windows
c) a child’s brains were nearly beat out by a bat
Two more fatal events occurred in 1624 when Jasper Vinall, a fielder was struck on the head
by a batsman trying to prevent his dismissal, and in 1647, when Henry Brand had the same
fate in store for him. The law making such an act illegal was introduced in the 1744
codification of the Laws of Cricket which were drawn up by the London Cricket Club.
What am I talking about?
Answer
Double Touch Dismissal
Question 9 - Hollywood
The X sign was erected in 1923 as “Xland” for a Woodruff and Shoults real estate
project, in the X district of Y.
ID X and Y.
Answer
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Question 10 - Mathematics
Connect
Answer
Series in Mathematics
Question 11 – Science Etymologies
Put funda
dsDNA – acorn, small protuberance, many tumors, creeping, pock mark
ssDNA – small
dsRNA – defendant, accused
ssRNA, serves as mRNA – acronym of various types, crown, blonde, name of Greek
garment
ssRNA, serves as template for mRNA – leaf, right mucus, side mucus, dog
ssRNA, serves as template for DNA – imitative of recent past
Answer
Types of viruses
THANK YOU!