THOMASONIAN FINALS 2015

Infinite Pounce

• +15/-10 on pounce

• +10 on bounce

• Unlimited pounces.

X or the book?

Kurowsky served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I. One of her patients was the 19-year-old X, who fell in love with her. By the time of his release and return to the United States in January 1919, Kurowsky and X planned to marry within a few months in America. However, in a letter dated March 7, 1919, she wrote that she had become engaged to an Italian officer. Although Kurowsky did eventually return to the United States, they never met again.

Answer…

X: Ernest Hemingway Farewell to Arms

Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich often gets funny stares when he mentions that his favorite movie is ________. Interestingly, he notes that many of the people who knew him as a horror fiend in his youth were similarly surprised when he wound up making family films at Pixar. He also put in a lot of references from _______ in Toy Story.

Answer…

THE SHINING

FITB.

The name Pakistan literally means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab,North-West Frontier Province (Afgania Province),_________, Sindh, and Baluchistan". The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and meaningful name.

Answer…

Kashmir

Funda?

Answer…

Taxi Driver

Video Funda?

Answer…

Hip Hop Montage

Recent news

A diplomatic cable revealed by WikiLeaks in 2010 said that he had suggested to a US counterterrorism official that electronic chips be implanted in detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He said it had worked with horses and falcons, to which the

American replied, "Horses don't have good lawyers." In line with Islamic law, X kept no more than four wives at once,

and was married at least 13 times.

Answer…

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

"General Winter", from a 1916 front page illustration of the French periodical

Le Petit Journal.

What is being depicted here?

Answer…

The Russian Winter

Who is speaking these words?

Answer…

Amelia Earheart

Answer…

Iniesta is also from La Mancha

Written Round.

• +15 if 1-2 have it right

• +10 if 3-4 have it right

• +5 if 5-6 have it right

IMDb 404 Error messages

1. Always remember, _____, the page is trying to get back to its

master. It wants to be found.

1. Webpages? Where we're going, we don't need webpages.

1. It's the one that says 'Page not found'.

1. I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

1. This is not the webpage you're looking for.

1. I am Jack's missing page.

Always remember, Frodo, the page is trying to get back to its master. It wants to be found. -Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Webpages? Where we're going, we don't need webpages. -Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future (1985)

It's the one that says 'Page not found'.

-Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction (1994)

I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

-Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1939)

This is not the webpage you're looking for.

-Obi-Wan, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

I am Jack's missing page.

-The Narrator, Fight Club (1999)

Long Connect

• +25/-15

• +20/-10

• +15/-5

• +10/0

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Connect

L. K. Advani Amitabh Bachchan Parkash Singh Badal Veerendra Heggade Dilip Kumar Rambhadracharya M.R. Srinivasan Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Aga Khan IV

Answer…

This year’s Padma Vibhushan awardees.