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ACHAMBHAThe Post End-Sem Hub Quiz,
NIT Silchar
Part 1- Aveek Baruah
WARM-UP
Identify the minimal posters that follow…
LET THE QUIZ BEGIN…
X is a Japanese word. X are typically modeled after
conventional animals, insects or mythological creatures;
however, there are more exotic examples. Technically,
monsters such as vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's
monster, mummies and zombies would fall into this category.
Nowadays, the term X is used in English to describe creatures
from films made in Japan in 1950s and Japanese folklore.
Kaiju
Due to the high value of X in many parts of Asia, it was used as
a form of currency throughout China, Tibet, Mongolia, and
Central Asia. This is quite similar to the use of salt bricks as
currency in parts of Africa. X were in fact the preferred form of
currency over metallic coins for the nomads of Mongolia and
Siberia. The X could not only be used as money and eaten as
food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly
beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds. Until World
War II, X were still used as a form of edible currency in Siberia.
What is X?
Tea/Tea Bricks
X won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling in 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, Georgia. His filmography is as follows.
ID X who is famously known in the entertainment field.
Kurt Angle
The ‘X Group’ is an 127-year-old business house. Its most prominent interests
are in Financial Services, with others being IT, Media, Healthcare,
Education, Power Generation, Infrastructure, Plantations, Precious metal, Tourism, and Hospitality. The Group takes its name from the X Family, set up
by X Ninan Mathai in 1887.
Later it was taken over by his son M. George X who incorporated the
Finance division of the group. Now, X Finance Ltd. is known as the largest gold financing company in the world and has presence in the US, UK, UAE
and India.
ID X
X = Muthoot
____ Neue is a typeface (font) released in 2014. It was designed by Craig
Rozynski as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but frequently
criticised typeface, X.
X, the font, was created by Vincent Connaire in the 1990s. Since its creation, X
has come to be considered "the world's most reviled typeface"
Critics comment:
"If X resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship,
Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior."
"X's much more attractive and worldly brother"On the other hand, comic book writer Mark Evanier said that the typeface was
an improvement on X, but that it still did not meet the standards of a
professional cartoonist, when used in all caps, which is how comic books are
typically lettered.
Give X.
Comic Sans
X and Y were two popular literature fiction series, created by publisher Edward
Stratemeyer.
X first appeared in 1927, and was written by may ghostwriters over the years, under a
collective pseudonym (Leslie McFarlane being the first writer). X sought to appeal to boys,
idolizing American Boy Scout ideals.
Y first appeared in 1930, by the same publishers, and also by writers under another
collective pseudonym. A cultural icon, Y has been cited as a formative influence by a
number of women, from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, to Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Laura Bush.
There have been several instances of X and Y crossing over. Critics have offered many
explanations for the characters' longevity, suggesting variously that they embody simple
wish fulfillment, American ideals of masculinity, an embodiment of contradictory ideas
about feminity, and the possibility of the triumph of good over evil.
Give X and Y.
X = Hardy Boys
Y = Nancy Drew
The term "X" is actually of British origin, not American.
Contemporary football has roots in British all boys schools. When
the schools started to compete with one another, they needed to
create a single set of rules. They formed the Football Association
(FA) that still governs football in England and Wales. Together, the
schools set forth set of rules that were the "Association Football"
rules. Any football played by these rules was called association
football, abbreviated to "assoc".
What word X comes from this practice?
Soccer (“assoc" was shifted to "assoccer" due to a British tendency
to add a kind of slang "-er" at the ends of words)
The popular, but wrong, image of a Viking dates back to the 1800s, when
Scandinavian artists like Sweden’s Gustav Malmström included the element
of X in their portrayals of the raiders. When Wagner staged his “Der Ring des
Nibelungen” opera cycle in the 1870s, costume designer Carl Emil Doepler
created the X for the Viking characters, and an enduring stereotype was born. Such artists borrowed from Greek or Roman writers, who largely
distorted foreign cultures.
Years of excavations, coupled with studies of images, have yielded no
evidence for the common use of X, except for the occasional ceremonial use
that predated the Vikings (late 8th century).
What is being talked about?
Horned Helmets
L.L. are the initials for many characters featuring in the X universe, X being the
protagonist. For the most part, such have tended to be his adversaries, love
interests, or relatives. Some of the lesser known people were - Linda Lee, Lori
Lemaris, Lara Lor-Van. An uncanny coincidence was that the actor who
played X in the 1950s TV series was engaged to a lady named Leonore
Lemmon.
Over the years, many theories were put forward, one of them being that one
of the creator's first girlfriend had the initials L.L.
An in-universe explanation said that in X's native language, the equivalent for
LL put together resembles the symbol for infinity.
ID X.
Superman The more famous examples being Lois Lane
and Lex Luthor
Sandeep Bomble, a graduate from JJ school of Arts, is the founder of Palasa
Creative Place. Post college he joined Ogilvy where he worked on the campaign for Ponds black head, which was the first print campaign to be
nominated at Cannes film festival in 1999.
He started freelancing, when he got an opportunity to work for brand X and he
proudly calls himself as the man who put a certain key on keyboards of X, and
further coined the name X. The small key design got an award at the New York
Festivals for packaging, which was the first Indian brand to get an award for
packaging at the New York Festivals.
ID X, or his innovative piece of non-intrusive branding.
iBall
The red i-key on iBall keyboards
The origin of the word X is as follows:
In what is now the Czech Republic, then Bohemia, there's a valley
called Joachimsthal - the valley of Saint Joachim. It contains silver,
which ,from 1520, was used to mint coins known as
Joachimsthaler. Joachimsthaler got shortened to thaler or taler
and in Danish and Norwegian it was known as a Y, which was
further corrupted into the English word X.
X, please.
Dollar
ESPN Reporter Keith Law was recently involved in a public tussle on Twitter
trying to defend the theory of Evolution, over one of his co-worker Curt
Schilling’s anti-evolution rant. After things escalated to a level, ESPN
suspended Keith Law and told him to stay off twitter. After the news
spread, people began rallying for Keith on Twitter, and soon ESPN had to reinstate him. After this ordeal, Keith’s first tweet was –
“Eppur si muove”
which means “And yet it moves” (in Italian).
This tweet was a reference to an event in early 17th century, when a
person X exclaimed these words, before being put under house arrest for
defending his theory. Various parallels had also been subsequently drawn
between ESPN and the institution that had persecuted X.
ID X, and what event.
X = Galileo GalileiUttered before the Roman Court of Inquisition
asked ordered him to retract his claims that the
Earth moves around the Sun
Zahir-ud-din Mohammad was a descendant of Tamerlane from his father's
side and Genghis Khan from his maternal side. In 1495, at 12 years of age, he
became the ruler of Ferghana, in present day Uzbekistan. After crushing
defeats in Samarkand, he was forced to flee Uzbekistan with a small band of
followers to the Indian subcontinent.
However, we know him by the name X , which means ‘lion’ in Persian.
ID X.
Babur
X is a type of mixed drink, first recorded in 1632 in British documents. The drink
was brought back from India to England by the sailors and employees of the British East India Company in the early seventeenth century, from where it was
introduced into other European countries. An Indian X has five ingredients:
spirit, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices The name X has its origins in
Hindi/Sanskrit.
Name the drink X.
Punch