Rules:

Different rules for different sections.

Use of electronic devices and/or Internet is strictly prohibited, if

found using the above mentioned commodities, it will result in instant expulsion from Hogwarts, sorry MNNIT, sorry Gnosis, sorry NLH.

And as always Quizmaster is God.

Liftoff!

Round One: All Systems Go !

Infinite bounce

+10 on correct or pass

No negatives

8 Questions in all

Hint when necessary

The following three countries are the only

ones who don’t use X, even though USA has

been sanctioned to use it since 1866

The Metric System

Segments of the Berlin Wall

Recently, popular physicist Brian Cox, went to Nasa’s Space Simulation Chamber at the Space Power Facility in Ohio, home to the biggest vacuum chamber in the world.

The Simulation Chamber replicates the same conditions experienced in outer space. Nasa uses the cylinder to test out its spacecrafts.

Vacuum was necessary for the experiment that Cox had in mind.

Cox wanted to prove a famous thought experiment by X.

When X first did this experiment from a very famous building, it failed due to obvious reasons.

This thought experiment has been recreated in space, but Cox wanted to simulate it on earth.

Ball and feather drop Galileo

Iznogoud (pronounced "he's/is no good" with a French accent) is a

French comics series featuring an eponymous character, created

by the comics writer René Goscinny and comics artist Jean Tabary.

Iznogoud is the second in command (Grand Vizier) to the Caliph of

Baghdad Haroun El Poussah but his sole aim in life is to overthrow

the Caliph and take his place. This is frequently expressed in his

famous catchphrase, "I want to become Caliph instead of the

Caliph" , which has passed into everyday French for qualifying over-

ambitious people who want to become chief.

Tantri the Mantri

Connect the four:

The first is not a word as people normally think but perhaps a way to

represent Saturn.

The second comes from Rudolf Koch’s Book of Signs, and it is intended to symbolize a person who possesses both confidence

and competence.

The third is from the same book and represents the triad of mother,

father and child, but, inverted, it also happens to be the logo for

Ballantine beer.

The forth is an original creation , being supposedly based on the sign

of the Mu Civilization .

Connect to a sport:

Under his/her thumb

Lure

Pounce

Rouse

Haggard

Hoodwinked

Falconry

Hotdogs are also known as X and Y owing to having it’s roots in the

two cities from which it originated.

X and Y, are derived from the names of those two cities.

Give me the name of the cities.

Frankfurter- Frankfurt, Germany

Weiner- Vienna, Austria

Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa,I had one hell of a ______,I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first,For claiming to be King of the Jungle.For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators,I’ve tussled with a whale.I done handcuffed lightningAnd throw thunder in jail.You know I’m bad.Just last week, I murdered a rock,Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.I’m so fast, man,I can run through a hurricane and don’t get wet.When X meets me,He’ll pay his debt.I can drown the drink of water, and kill a dead tree.Wait till you see Y.”

The above is Y trash talking to X before Z(which contains the blank word). ID all.

Perhaps one of the most sentimental moments in modern Olympic

history occurred during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,

Australia , during the opening ceremony.

It was a moment of great importance as both countries involved set

aside their decade long differences and came together in the act.

The reason being that they are “of the same blood”.

Sadly this miracle was only seen again in 2004 Athens after which it

stopped.

Round Two: The Outer Planets

Pounce and Infinite Bounce

+20/-10 on pounce

+10/-0 on bounce.

Side 1Things Left UnsaidIt’s What We DoEbb And Flow

Side 2SumSkinsUnsungAnisina

Side 3The Lost Art Of ConversationOn Noodle StreetNight LightAllons-y (1)Autumn ‘68Allons-y (2)Talkin’ ________

Side 4CallingEyes To PearlsSurfacingLouder Than Word

The text beside is the track listing

of the latest Pink Floyd album ‘The

Endless River’

The highlighted song contains a

very infrequent collaborator of

Pink Floyd who once again makes

his appearance.

ID this famous collaborator.

Talkin’ Hawkin’

Liechtenstein is the only UEFA member nation that does not have

any spot in the UEFA Champions league.

Why this lack of love for this small landlocked country?

According to the UEFA regulations a National League needs to

consist of at least eight clubs to be considered valid, otherwise no

participants of such a league will be allowed to enter European competitions.

There are only seven clubs that are active in Liechtenstein.

X is used for calculating the relative skill levels of players in

competitor-versus-competitor games.

The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with equal ratings

who play against each other multiple times are expected to score

an equal number of wins. A player whose rating is 100 points greater

than their opponent's is expected to win 64% of the time; if the

difference is 200 points, then the expected win proportion for the

stronger player is 76%.

Named afterd it’s creater Arpad X, id X and where is it used majorly.

Elo rating system, Chess.

Malana is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

Malana has a history and it goes back to Jamlu rishi (sage) who inhabited this place and made rules and regulations.

It is one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well organized parliamentary system.

People in Malana consider all non-Malani to be inferior and consequently untouchable. Visitors to Malana town must pay particular attention to stick to the prescribed paths and not to touch any of the walls, houses or people there. If this does occur, visitors are expected to pay a forfeit sum, that will cover the sacrificial slaughter of a lamb in order purify the object that has been made impure.

This is due to the supposed superiority of the people of Malana is because according to legends they are either the descendants of Aryans or even more legendary they are X?

What is X?

Hint: think foreign invasions

Descendants of Greek Soldiers of

Alexander’s Army

Alan and Gary Keery, are identical twins from Belfast,UK, with a

craze for X.

To share their craze, with the help of Indiegogo they raised the funds to open X Killer Café , worlds first X café.

The servings will be in small, medium and large sizes and with 20

different toppings.

What is X?

The first ever Cereal Café

X is an E-Ink Typewriter with a aim to reduce the distractions associated with modern writing devices.

Between social networks, video games and the endless void of procrastination we call "the internet," computers can make pretty poor writing devices. Adam Leeb and Patrick Paul therefore created X.

It's a minimalist writing machine that features a machine-tooled aluminum chassis, a satisfying mechanical keyboard and a six-week battery life. It's not completely devoid of modern faculties, however: it also automatically uploads your prose to a cloud storage system as you type it.

Hemingwrite

X Lake saline soda lake located at X in Buldana district, Maharashtra, India. It has a radius of 2 Kms and a depth of 100m.

This lake, which lies in a basalt impact structure, is both saline and alkaline in nature. Geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, naturalists and astronomers have reported several studies on the various aspects of this crater lake ecosystem.

At the base, the lake has a circumference of about 4.8 km (three miles .A ring of date-palms followed by a ring of tamarind trees (nearly 1.6 km or a mile broad) leads to a ring of babul trees, bounded on the inside by a belt of bare muddy space.

The lake was first mentioned in ancient scriptures such as the Skanda Purana, the Padma Puran and the Aaina-i-Akbari

What is special about this lake?

Lonar Lake, created by a metoer

impact. Shown below the crater.

X includes four categories of fixed objects from where one can start

the activity

Building

Antenna

Span

Earth(i.e Cliff)

This dangerous sport was given it’s name by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his

wife Jean Boenish.

Due to the above four requirements, people involved often break the law

to accomplish this sport. ID

B.A.S.E Jumping

Joseph Conrad

Round Three: Somewhere near

Andromeda

Peculiar Categories having peculiar answers

Choice based on the basis of current scores.

Infinite pounce

+20/-10 on pounce

+10/-0 on direct(bounce applies)

Movies and Colors

Word Usage in Sports

Artisitic Renditions

Biological Miracles

Movies, Math and Beyond

Photographic History

'Fruit'ful Outcome

Documentaries and Homages

Next Round

The Three Colors Trilogy is a collective title of three films by Krzysztof

Kieślowski, two made in French and one in Polish.

Three Colors : Blue, Three Colors : White, Three Colors : Red

The three movies deal with the issues of equality, liberation and

brotherhood.

Simple. Why these particular three colors?

Colors of the french flag: The movies deal with the political

ideas in the motto of the French Republic liberty, equality,

fraternity.

Home

The first use of the term is unknown, but the word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London—X Boys.

In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularised by the press. The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, "The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of X-ism' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London“.

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1904 novel The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, "It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of X-ism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such“

Since 1970’s the word X is also being associated with violence in sports, specially in Britain.

ID X?

Hooligans, Hooliganism

Home

Salvador Dali’s Alice in Wonderland

Home

Mohammadpur Umri is a small village close to the Indian Air Force

base of Bamrauli, near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh State, India

The village has a large number of X and therefore sometimes labeled as the X capital of the world. Out of a total population of

600, there are almost 33 occurrences of X here. The village boasts a

monozygotic (MZ) rate that is 300 times the national average and

maybe one of the highest in the world.

The Twin Village

Home

Elvis Presley – 2

Barack Obama – 2

Anne Frank – 3

Mark Zuckerberg – 4

Shahrukh Khan – 3

Om Puri – 2

Anupam Kher - 2

The following are certain numbers that have been assigned to them owing to their relation with X.

Who is X or what are these numbers.

These numbers started because X once stated “he had worked with everybody in ________ or someone who's worked with them.”

This concept is itself based on Y numbers, which refers to the particular interactions people had with the popular mathematician Y.

Bacon Numbers, Kevin Bacon.

Paul Erdos, Erdos Numbers

Shah Rukh Khan's Bacon number is 3

Shah Rukh Khan and Anupam Kher appeared in Dilwale Dulhania

Le Jayenge.

Anupam Kher and Jennifer Lawrence appeared in Silver Linings

Playbook.

Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First

Class.

Home

A picture from a Nazi’s personal album, labelled on the back as “X”. It shows a Nazi just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

Hannah Arendt wrote about “the banality of evil”: “The neutral expressions on the shooter and his uniformed audience pretty well encapsulate that concept: they could be watching a barber cut hair, instead of the heartless extermination of innocents. Humans can adapt to endure almost anything, but in doing so, they sometimes perpetuate incredible evil.

The Last Jew

Home

John X was a Scottish-Canadian farmer who was born in the

province of New York in 1777.

While clearing his property, McIntosh discovered a number of

seedling trees growing wild. He transplanted them to his garden,

and by the following year only one had survived. Several years later,

the tree was producing the crisp, delicious fruit that is now well

known. The discoverer eventually dubbed it the ‘X Red', which is still

its official name.

What is X and how did it influence the modern world?

McIntosh Red Apples, Macintosh

Home

This American documentary

follows Steve Weibe as in his

attempts to take over the reigning

champion Billy Mitchell.

Rivalry related to what?

Also give the references in the

name of the documentary

Donkey Kong high scores.

Home

Round Four: The edge of the

Universe

Long Visual Connect

4 questions theme connect only.

Theme points will be displayed on slides.

+40/-20

+30/-10

+20/-10

+10/-0

Andy Serkis roles via Motion

Capture

Fin.

Scores please.

Comments and Criticisms are welcome .