DESI AND VIDESI!

THE ACCIDENTAL QMs

NIRMIT “ MARIO “ SHAH

MEGHAN “ ULTIMATUM” KACHHI

RULES

• 20 QUESTIONS

• WRITTEN ROUND

• +1 FOR EACH CORRECT

• NO NEGATIVES

• IN CASE OF TIE, ELIMINATION BY SUDDEN DEATH.

• THE WORD OF THE QMS IS FINAL.

• WIKIPEDIA KO NAMAN!!

1. ID X

• Had the show been picked up from its original pilot, things may have turned out much differently for the TV Series X.

• The pilot actually contained similar scenes to the first episode. It starts with the leading characters deciding to make a particular donation to a particular bank. And they actually make the donation. ( In the aired episode, they don’t.)

• Also, this time they meet a new female friend called Katie, who happens to be sitting on the pavement crying after breaking up with her boyfriend and becoming homeless.

• One of the leads invites her to stay with them and the story goes from there.

2.

• 8731 is the decimal number.

• Equivalent Binary = 10001000011011

• Its Hexadecimal conversion gives a number which is a very prominent location in this particular TV series.

• Give the location and the TV Series.

• No part Points.

3. CONNECT

• The Cheap Trick

• The Don't Drink That

• The Time Traveller

• The One Week to Live

• The Trojan Lesbian

4. ID THE SHOW

5. Original/initial star cast of which popular TV show?

• Ashok Saraf• Priya Tendulkar• Shoma Anand• Vandana Aathak• Amita Nangia• Rakhee Tandon• Bhairavi Raichura• Priyanka Mehra• Aruna Sangal• Jatin Kanakia• Suchitra Bandekar• Rajendra Nath

6. Give the real life name of the following character.

Minimalist poster of which TV show?

7.

8. Which Popular TV Show?

• The first season aired in 2000-2001 and the latest season aired in 2014.

• The tagline of the 4th season of this show which aired in 2010 was “Koi Bhi Insaan ChotaNahi Hota”.

• In the 5th season which aired in 2011 they replaced it with

“Koi Bhi X Chota Nahi Hota.”

9. ID the TV series

CHARACTERS OF WHICH TV SHOW?

• Gopinath - Harish Patel

• W.S.Swaminathan (Swami) - Master Manjunath

• Swami's father - Girish Karnad

• Swami's mother - Vaishali Kasaravalli

• Swami's grand mother - B. Jayashree

• Muniya (Muni) - Kanti Madiya

• Muniya's wife - B Jayashree

• Shopkeeper – Somu

• American (New York tourist) - Teddy White

• Nitya - Deven Bhojani

10. ID X

• Unlike other Hindi sitcoms, which continuously air throughout the year, X is one of the earliest shows on Indian television to adopt the Western model of appearing in seasons.

• It is widely considered by audiences and television critics to be one of the finest examples of true situation comedy in India.

• It does not use a laugh track like many Indian comedy shows, but instead relies on its deadpan humour and its witty lines to become its unique selling point.

11. What are these?

• “If your home is bug infested filled with spiders, flies, or nats, all our sprays are safety tested we kill vermin not your cat.”

• “ A teenage boy with a sprit inside of a samuriawarrior who long ago died. Now he‘s Oshikuru. My oh My he's a demon Samurai. He's the guy who had to die.......Oshikuru.”

• “It's got oats, corns and wheat. It's the sweetest breakfast treat. It's maple maple mayplelicious.”

12.

• The position of X is very profound in the UK and the US. It is also found in some other parts of the world, but less relevant. In the remaining countries, like most of continental Europe and Asia—the position of X doesn't officially exist.

• A particular TV series has garnered critical reviews about this position as well as the person that plays this position.

• The usage comes from a hunting term which means preventing hounds from wandering away from the pack.

• ID the term X.

13.

• ICHIBAN means “ first” in Japanese.

• It is also the name of a restaurant in Delhi, where Chinese, Japanese and Thai food is available.

• Connect ICHIBAN to something which is highlighted in a very famous TV Series by a very famous character.

• SPECIFIC ANSWER. NOT THE SHOW OR THE CHARACTER.

14. ID this TV series

15. ID TV Series

• X ( born 6 September 1972) is a British actor, producer, singer, rapper, and DJ. He is best known for his portrayal of drug lord and aspiring businessman Russell "Stringer" Bell in the HBO series The Wire.

• He has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, as well as earning four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

• ID this MiniTV Series for which he won the award.

16. ID the character

• Someone once told me, ‘Time is a flat circle.’ Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.

• When X delivers those lines, it’s a compelling monologue that makes you believe he is either brilliant or insane, maybe both. The guys opposite X shoot each other glances that say, “This guy sounds crazy.” But that doesn’t mean X is wrong.

• There’s a lot of science to suggest the opposite – time might have flat circles, and it explains the ending of a Christopher Nolan Movie.

17. ID CHARACTER

• You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don’t be an idiot. ‘Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.

• Whose dialogue?

18.

• Show creator X bought 5,000 copies of episode 508 on Amazon Instant for viewers who missed out on it due to Hurricane Sandy. Acknowledging that more than a few thousand people probably didn't get to see the latest episode at the time, Sutter said he really wanted his "peeps in New Jersey" to know he cares.

• Which TV Show is X talking about?

19. ID THE MINIMALIST POSTER

20. ID the TV SHOW

• X premiered in the U.S. on the Fox network on September 20, 2002. By mid-December, X had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode and was 98th in Nielsen ratings. It was cancelled after eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired.

• Despite the relatively short life span of the series, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns.

• It won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2003 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. TV Guide ranked the series #5 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

• The post-airing success of the show led the creator of the show and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series, and the Firefly franchise expanded to other media, including comics and a role-playing game.

1. ID X

• Had the show been picked up from its original pilot, things may have turned out much differently for the TV Series X.

• The pilot actually contained similar scenes to the first episode. It starts with the leading characters deciding to make a particular donation to a particular bank. And they actually make the donation. ( In the aired episode, they don’t.)

• Also, this time they meet a new female friend called Katie, who happens to be sitting on the pavement crying after breaking up with her boyfriend and becoming homeless.

• One of the leads invites her to stay with them and the story goes from there.

• THE BIG BANG THEORY

2.

• 8731 is the decimal number.

• Equivalent Binary = 10001000011011

• Its Hexadecimal conversion gives a number which is a very prominent location in this particular TV series.

• Give the location and the TV Series.

• No part Points.

221 B, Baker Street

3. CONNECT

• The Cheap Trick

• The Don't Drink That

• The Time Traveller

• The One Week to Live

• The Trojan Lesbian

Barney’s PLAYBOOK

4. ID THE SHOW

POKEMON main theme 1st Season

5. Original/initial star cast of which popular TV show?

• Ashok Saraf• Priya Tendulkar• Shoma Anand• Vandana Aathak• Amita Nangia• Rakhee Tandon• Bhairavi Raichura• Priyanka Mehra• Aruna Sangal• Jatin Kanakia• Suchitra Bandekar• Rajendra Nath

6. Give the real life name of the following character.

Emily Bett Rikards

• Felicity Smoak of Arrow

Minimalist poster of which TV show?

7.

8. Which Popular TV Show?

• The first season aired in 2000-2001 and the latest season aired in 2014.

• The tagline of the 4th season of this show which aired in 2010 was “Koi Bhi Insaan ChotaNahi Hota”.

• In the 5th season which aired in 2011 they replaced it with

“Koi Bhi X Chota Nahi Hota.”

KAUN BANEGA CROREPATI

• X= SAWAL

9. ID the TV series

CHARACTERS OF WHICH TV SHOW?

• Gopinath - Harish Patel

• W.S.Swaminathan (Swami) - Master Manjunath

• Swami's father - Girish Karnad

• Swami's mother - Vaishali Kasaravalli

• Swami's grand mother - B. Jayashree

• Muniya (Muni) - Kanti Madiya

• Muniya's wife - B Jayashree

• Shopkeeper – Somu

• American (New York tourist) - Teddy White

• Nitya - Deven Bhojani

Malgudi Days

10. ID X

• Unlike other Hindi sitcoms, which continuously air throughout the year, X is one of the earliest shows on Indian television to adopt the Western model of appearing in seasons.

• It is widely considered by audiences and television critics to be one of the finest examples of true situation comedy in India.

• It does not use a laugh track like many Indian comedy shows, but instead relies on its deadpan humour and its witty lines to become its unique selling point.

KHICHDI

11. What are these?

• “If your home is bug infested filled with spiders, flies, or nats, all our sprays are safety tested we kill vermin not your cat.”

• “ A teenage boy with a sprit inside of a samuriawarrior who long ago died. Now he‘s Oshikuru. My oh My he's a demon Samurai. He's the guy who had to die.......Oshikuru.”

• “It's got oats, corns and wheat. It's the sweetest breakfast treat. It's maple maple mayplelicious.”

CHARLIE’S JINGLES

12.

• The position of X is very profound in the UK and the US. It is also found in some other parts of the world, but less relevant. In the remaining countries, like most of continental Europe and Asia—the position of X doesn't officially exist.

• A particular TV series has garnered critical reviews about this position as well as the person that plays this position.

• The usage comes from a hunting term which means preventing hounds from wandering away from the pack.

• ID the term X.

• The Majority Whip.

• Kevin Spacey- House of Cards.

13.

• ICHIBAN means “ first” in Japanese.

• It is also the name of a restaurant in Delhi, where Chinese, Japanese and Thai food is available.

• Connect ICHIBAN to something which is highlighted in a very famous TV Series by a very famous character.

• SPECIFIC ANSWER. NOT THE SHOW OR THE CHARACTER.

LIPSTICK FOR MEN

14. ID this TV series

KUMARS AT NO. 42

15. ID TV Series

• X ( born 6 September 1972) is a British actor, producer, singer, rapper, and DJ. He is best known for his portrayal of drug lord and aspiring businessman Russell "Stringer" Bell in the HBO series The Wire.

• He has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, as well as earning four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

• ID this MiniTV Series for which he won the award.

Luther

16. ID the character

• Someone once told me, ‘Time is a flat circle.’ Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.

• When X delivers those lines, it’s a compelling monologue that makes you believe he is either brilliant or insane, maybe both. The guys opposite X shoot each other glances that say, “This guy sounds crazy.” But that doesn’t mean X is wrong.

• There’s a lot of science to suggest the opposite – time might have flat circles, and it explains the ending of a Christopher Nolan Movie.

• RUST COHLE – TRUE DETECTIVE

17. ID CHARACTER

• You can have all the faith you want in spirits and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don’t be an idiot. ‘Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.

• Whose dialogue?

Dr. Gregory HOUSE

18.

• Show creator X bought 5,000 copies of episode 508 on Amazon Instant for viewers who missed out on it due to Hurricane Sandy. Acknowledging that more than a few thousand people probably didn't get to see the latest episode at the time, Sutter said he really wanted his "peeps in New Jersey" to know he cares.

• Which TV Show is X talking about?

• SONS OF ANARCHY

19.

Hannibal(2013)

20. ID the TV SHOW

• X premiered in the U.S. on the Fox network on September 20, 2002. By mid-December, X had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode and was 98th in Nielsen ratings. It was cancelled after eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired.

• Despite the relatively short life span of the series, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns.

• It won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2003 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. TV Guide ranked the series #5 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

• The post-airing success of the show led the creator of the show and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series, and the Firefly franchise expanded to other media, including comics and a role-playing game.

FIREFLY

FINALS

COMING UP!!!

SMALL CONNECT

+10 FOR CORRECT INDIVIDUAL SLIDE

NO INDIVIDUAL POINTS AFTER THE THEME IS CRACKED.

ID X +30/-15

• Apart from his/her work on a famous tv channel , X has also extended his/her performance to the big screen: X acted in Himesh Reshammiya's2007 Aap Kaa Surroor.

• Followed by an appearance in 2011 Soundtrack featuring Rajeev Khandelwal and Soha Ali Khan. The film is loosely based on It's All Gone Pete Tong, followed by Ishqueria shot in 2012-2013 featuring RichaChadda and Neil Nitin Mukesh, the film is yet to be released.

• His/her most current film is a Punjabi film which is yet to be released featuring Yo Yo Honey Singh, Mukul Dev, Achint Kaur and Pawan Malhotra.

• X has also done an AD for Aircel with Dhoni (2010) and a special appearance on Disney's popular Kyaa Mast Hai Life (2011) show as Sheena.

ID the person +25/-10

• He majored in English literature and has done Masters in Mass Communication from School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, in Chandigarh.

• He has been active in theatre for five years. He was also the founder member of DAV College’s "Aaghaaz" and "Manchtantra", which are active theatre groups in Chandigarh.

• He has conceptualised and enacted in street plays and won prizes in national fests like Mood Indigo (IIT Bombay), Oasis (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani) and St. Bedes Simla. He also won a Best Actor award for playing Ashwatthama in Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug.

Who is talking about what? +15/-5

• X's father is an army officer with the Indian Army, making X’s six generation male ancestors to be directly related to the Indian Army. He changed nine schools, as his father's transfers of service in the army required the family to keep on moving to different places within India, even as he did a major part of his schooling from a boarding school.

• “Frankly speaking, I never wanted to come under the spotlight. If not the entertainment industry, I would have definitely joined the Army - like everybody else in my family. We have all served the nation. And I was on my way to joining the Army when Y happened.”

ID THE PERSON +10

• Comedy Circus- Chinchpokli to China (Sony TV)

• Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (NDTV imagine)

• Desi Girls (NDTV imagine)

• Kitchen Champion Season-2 (Colors Tv)

• Savdhaan India (Life Ok)

ANSWERS

CONNECT IS

THE CLOCKWISE MANIPULATION

RULES

• INFINITE BOUNCE AND POUNCE

• +15 FOR CORRECT ON POUNCE

• -10 FOR INCORRECT ON POUNCE

• +10 FOR CORRECT BOUNCE

• NO NEGATIVES ON BOUNCE

1. GIVE FUNDA!

• 86

• 98

• 84

• 96

• 98

• 97

• 105

• 105 + 28

• DURATION OF BIG BOSS SEASONS

2. ID the TV show.

• These are the occupations of the main characters of a famous TV show.

• A rich, ex-director of a multinational company.(Male)

• A social and charity worker. (Female)

• The cosmetic surgeon(Male)

• Housewife

• Theatre artist, wannabe actor and a poet. (Male)

• SARABHAI VS SARABHAI

3. ID X

• In its original American broadcast, 76.3 million U.S. television viewers tuned into "The Finale", making it the fifth most watched overall series finale in the U.S. after M*A*S*H*,Roots, Cheers and The Fugitive.

• When this episode originally aired on NBC, TV Land paid tribute by not programming any shows opposite it, instead just showing a still shot of a closed office door with a pair of hand written notes that said "We're TV Fans so... we're watching the last episode of X. Will return at 10pm et, 7pm pt."

• SEINFIELD

4. ID X and Y

• Although X has appeared in many different roles during his 40-year career, he is best remembered for his performance as Y a series of Granada Television films made between 1984 and 1994.

• “Y is the hardest part I have ever played — harder than Hamlet or Macbeth“

• "Some actors fear if they play Y for a very long run the character will steal their soul, leave no corner for the original inhabitant“.

• “Y has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous".

• X= JEREMY BRETT

• Y = SHERLOCK HOLMES

5.

• X is an American poet, essayist and journalist.

• His initials have played a major role as a plot device in a very famous T.V. Series.

• Image is on the next slide.

• ID Him.

• NOT The T.V. Series

Walt Whitman – author of “leaves of grass”

6. ID X

• X is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Will Scarlet in the 2006 BBC drama Robin Hood, Jeremy Baines in the 2007 Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", and also as an antagonist in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

• He is a great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen)

7. ID THE SHOW

EPISODES SEASON 1(1993)

• Satyanweshi

• Raste Ka Kanta

• Seemant Heera

• Wasiyat

• Ret Ka Daldal

• Lal Neelam

• Bhoot

• Agnivaan

• Upasanhaar

• Chiryaghar - Part 1

• Chiryaghar - Part 2

BYOMKESH BAKSHI

8.CONNECT

• Allen Schweitzer 11121147

• English Fitz Percy

• Cute Poison

• Bolshoi Booze

• Coffin with a cross

• 1 312 909 3529

Michael Scofield’s Tattoo

VERY LONG CONNECT

8 SLIDESINDIVIDUAL SLIDES – 10 points

NO INDIVIDUAL POINTS AFTER YOU CRACK THE THEME.

+70/-35

• According to urban dictionary X is a method which has the following steps.

• Step 1: Find a hard surface such as a Wood Bench or Marble Floor.

• Step 2: Sit on your Dominant hand, palm down for 5-7 minutes until 88% of feeling or more is lost in that hand.

• Step 3: Close your eyes, manifesting a pleasurable scenario, then proceed to gratify yourself with your hand in its current numb state.

+60/-30

• The X is a stock character in folklore and fairy tale, an old woman. In some stories, she is disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing. She is also an archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.

• The word "X" is a less common synonym for "old woman," and is more likely to appear in reference to traditional narratives than in contemporary everyday usage.

+50/-25

• For the past 35 years, the band has been supported by their famous mascot, "Eddie", who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, as well as in their live shows.

• Although he is occasionally described as "zombie-like" in the press, Eddie assumes a different guise relating to the themes of individual albums and their corresponding world tours, and has appeared as a cyborg, an Egyptian mummy and a lobotomised mental patient amongst others.

• THE SECOND WORD OF THE BAND NAME.

• Image

+40/-20

• According to urban dictionary:• A Person who, being unable to express his anger through physical

violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that the Keyboard X would not (for reasons previously mentioned) be able to give form to in real life.

• In essence, the keyboard (ie. text input ability) allows the keyboard X to manifest his true X nature in a safe and removed environment, from which no real-life repercussions.

• Keyboard X are generally identified by unnecessary rage in their written communications, and are regarded as 'losers' by other virtual identities on the internet.

+30/-15

• X is a family name (surname) originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, the second most common surname in Canada, and the fifth most common surname in Ireland.

• A popular misconception holds that at the beginning of the 20th century, when many new immigrants were entering the U.S., civil servants at Ellis Island responsible for cataloguing the entry of such persons sometimes arbitrarily assigned new surnames if the immigrants' original surname was particularly lengthy, or difficult for the processor to spell or pronounce.

+20/-10

• 21 JUNE, 2014.

• 3rd Sunday of June.

• It was originally founded in the U.S. to complement its counterpart day, which is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of May.

+15

• She was the bass player as well as vocals for a wedding band called the Superfreakonomicsthat commonly played around New York.

• It is revealed that she dies of an unknown illness in 2024.

• For the obvious reason, her identity was kept a mystery for many seasons and she was referred to as just “X”.

+10

ANSWERS

THE STRANGER

THE CRONE

THE MAIDEN

THE WARRIOR

THE SMITH

THE FATHER

THE MOTHER

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