Impending Inferno….The SS diaries 3.0

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• 24 questions

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• 1. One of the modern theories of turbulence was put forth by the Russian mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov in 1940s. He depicted the particular mathematical relationship between the fluctuations in a flow's speed and the rate at which it dissipates energy as friction. We see a classic example of this theory in which famous item?

• Starry Nights by Van Gogh.

• 2. The wall shown in the next slide has seen many restoration attempts till date. The earliest efforts began back in 1517 while the last attempt was made in 1999. The image shown is from 1943, showing the extent of the damage caused on the wall due to bombings by Allied Forces. Thankfully a greater degree of destruction was avoided because of the protective structure built in front of it.

• So my question is why is so much effort being put into restoring this ailing wall? Or rather what’s so special about it?

.• Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” which is in fact a wall fresco is painted on the other side of the wall. Hence all the effort to keep it in tact.

• 3. The image in the next slide shows the view of “ El Golfet from Cap Gros in the Cap de Creus peninsula” in Spain.

• What did this particular view inspire in the world of art in the 1930s and subsequently led to it’s increased popularity among tourists?

The background of “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali.

• 4. The image in the next slide shows Rrose Sélavy. The name, a pun, sounds like the French phrase "Eros, c'est la vie", which may be translated as "Eros, such is life". It has also been read as "arroser la vie" ("to make a toast to life"). Sélavy emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Man Ray. She also has a sculpture accredited to her by the name of “Why Not Sneeze Rrose Sélavy?” (1921) and is a type of “readymade”.

• So who is this Rrose Selavy or what is her claim to fame?

• Female alter ego of Marcel Duchamp/ Pseudonym of Marcel Duchamp.

5. X is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Y. After the success of their eponymous 10th album, the band wanted to expand their commercial foreground but the recording suffered due to intra-band relationship hardships and breakups which affected each and every member in one way or another so much so that the recording sessions witnessed hedonistic behaviour and serious inter – personnel strife among the members. “This culminated into influencing the lyrics of almost all the tracks in the album”. The band did manage to pull the album through in the end and X remains their biggest commercially as well as critically successful album till date.

X won the Grammy for the Album of the Year in 1978 and has till date sold more than 45 million copies worldwide – one of the highest selling albums of all times. The album has also been ranked among the best ever by many websites and magazines.

The name X vaguely suggests the atmosphere prevalent in the studio when the album was in it’s production stage.

Give X and Y.

• 6. Started by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell and later joined by Peter Christopherson , X is a London based art design group. Douglas Adams has termed them as the best art design group of all times after he saw their work on the original paperback edition of THHGTTG. X specialised in making rock albums’ cover art and boasted of having the likes of Led Zep, Genesis, Deff Leppard, YES, Scorpions, etc. as clients.

• However X’s most notable works have been for the British band Y. The association of X with Y goes back to their second album, but X were pummelled into international prominence thanks to their cover art for Y’s 1973 album Z, frequently termed as one of the greatest albums of all times (Y’s eighth studio album). It arguably remains X’s most famous work till date.

• The name X was adopted by the creators from a graffiti they found on the doorway to their apartment.

• Gimme X, the band Y and the album Z.

• X – Hipgnosis

• Y – Pink Floyd

• Z - The Dark Side of the Moon

• 7. The image on the next slide shows a geothermal spa resort in Iceland and is amongst the most visited locations in the country.

• Incidentally the spa lends it’s name to the first book of a trilogy, the second and the third being The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925).

• Just give the name of the first book/spa.

• 7. A book and record store salesman from Tehran interviewed in 2004 quoted thus , “ It is the first rock album to hit the market legally and people are surprised and pleased to see it has the lyrics and not just the music ”.

• The album by a British band with a remote Indian connection, is among the very few to have been legally allowed to be sold in Iran wherein western music is strictly censored till date.

• Two Part Question : • 1. Name the album ( It takes it’s name from a 1935 Marx brothers’

movie – an iconic comedy)• 2. What was supposedly the most important reason of it being

legalised in Iran?

• The album is A Night at the Opera by Queen• The song Bohemian Rhapsody from the album

contains the word “Bismillah”.

• 8. America’s first celebrity designer, she designed clothes that were sold exclusively through Macy’s in New York and Marshall Fields in Chicago. Her clothing line inspired among others Jean Paul Gaultier at Hermes to parade a specially dedicated line for her. Better known for her exploits in a completely different field, who is this lady?

•9. We know this woman as "Talisa Maegyr" from HBO's "Game of Thrones" series (this character has a significant presence in the 3rd season aired in 2012-13). However, she is not the only actor from her family.

• Who was her more famous (maternal) grandfather?

• (Hint: She was named "Oona" after her maternal grandmother Oona O’Neill ___________.)

• Charlie Chaplin

• 10. X is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in the 11 th January, 1818 issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologized and is probably Shelley's most famous short poem.

• The central theme of X is contrasting the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they build with the lasting power of art, the only thing that has any permanence.

• X has made numerous appearances in popular culture. It came into public consciousness again in September 2013.

• Two part Question : 1. Name the poem/sonnet• 2. Why was it in the news in September 2013?

Ozymandias

11. Solve for all variables.

• This stadium X is located in city A of country B.• X was built in 1959 and was originally known as the A stadium. • The stadium was renamed in 1974 in honour of X, a former leader

of Y, following a speech he gave at A in favour of B's right to pursue nuclear weapons.

• In 2011, following the death of X, suggestions were made to change the name, stating that X’s profile wasn’t inspirational enough to be linked with the identity of the stadium.

• The stadium, with its fair share of sporting history, made the headlines for all the wrong reasons following an incident on March 3, 2009.

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• X – Gadaffi• Y – Libya• A – Lahore• B – Pakistan

12.• The X Cup is a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six 

Nations Championship match between England and Scotland.• On Christmas Day 1872, a game of rugby, between 20 players representing 

England  on  one  side  and  20  representing  Scotland, Ireland and Wales on the other, was played in the city of  X.

• The  match  was  declared  a  success  and  led  to  the  formation  of  the  X (Rugby) Football Club in January 1873.

• The  X  Club  joined  the Rugby  Football  Union  (RFU)  in  1874.  Despite  X’s climate not being suitable for rugby, the club prospered during that first year. But when  other  sports  gained greater  popularity,  the members  decided  to disband  but  keen  to  perpetuate  the  name  of  the  club,  they  withdrew  the club's funds from the bank, which were in Silver, had them melted down and made into a cup which they presented to the RFU in 1878, with the provision that it should be competed for annually.

• The X Cup was also proposed as rugby’s answer  to  football’s FA cup, but was retained as an annual competition between England & Scotland. 

• Give me X.

X - Calcutta

13.

• They say that "pop-art is not dead, pop-art is now X" X is an anime-inspired style of art,  is used by other artists in Asia and abroad. The term has been coined by the artist Takashi  Murakami.  Combining  the  flatness  of commercial  graphic  design  and  the  hyper-sexualised cartoon  characters  of  Japanese  comics  with  the aesthetic  concerns  of  fine  art.  X  also  stood  for  “the shallow emptiness of consumer culture”.

• Give me X. Pictures in the next slide

X- Superflat

• 14. The book "The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: X vs Y" is a  book  about  two  famous  French  existential  authors, who  were  best  friends  for  years  and  later  had  a  very public fallout. X's political arguments were those derived from Marxism and he advocated for a better world in the distant  future at  the price of accepting state  terror while Y with his humanist principles refused to sacrifice people for an ideal. They both were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.  Y  felt  overwhelming  gratitude  when  he accepted  his  award  in  1957.  X  loftily  declined  the designation in 1964 - making sure to underscore that he was not insulted "because Y had received it before me," as he said at the time.

• Identify X and Y.

X- Jean Paul SartreY- Albert Camus

15.

• In Latin 'X', means fortunate or lucky, X is fairly common in Italy as a given name, but not being used until  after  the Renaissance of  the 16th  Century.  However,  the  other  source  of  this  name  X may  be from the German word for fist, and a nickname surname for a strong willed,  rather  angry  person.    X  and  the  adjective  derived  from  it,   imply  a  situation  in  which  an  ambitious  person  surrenders  moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.

• Just give me X.

• 16 .Give me the name of the fashion/theme that is depicted in the pictures. 

Steampunk

17. Fill in the blank/ Name the play

• "I also told Richardson that if by ____ I had meant God I would  [have]  said  God,  and  not  _____.  "It  would  be fatuous  of  me  to  pretend  that  I  am  not  aware  of  the meanings attached to the word '______', and the opinion of many that it means 'God'. But you must remember – I wrote the play in French, and if  I did have that meaning in my mind,  it was somewhere in my unconscious and I was not overtly aware of it." - Y about his play , in which two  characters,  Vladimir  and  Estragon,  wait  endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named ____. ___'s absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's 1953 premiere

Godot / Waiting for Godot

• 18.  Starting  scene  from  which  famous Movie?  

19. Give X and Y.

• Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir dystopian science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel X, by Y.

• 20. What is the common name given to this sort of depiction of Abu Abdallah Muhammad XII looking at the

city of Granada after he surrendered it?

21.

• While the name X eventually used for the character was fairly obvious to most Indians, the rest of the world furiously looked for the origin of the name.

• The closest they’ve come to identifying a source is this: Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book has a short story called Rikki Tikki Tavi. The story’s about a valiant young animal, whose name comes from the sound it makes during battle with its familiar foe in nature.

• This foe in the book is represented by a couple, the lady from which is supposed to have been the origin for the name X finally chosen by this famous author for a crucial character.

• We’ve slithered and dithered around enough – give the name we all found fairly obvious.

Nagini

22. The band and their Woh…

• Initially appearing in the band’s 1971 album Sticky Fingers, this has been repeatedly voted the most popular “item” in it’s field over the years. In the words of critic Sean Egan, “Without using the ______ name, it instantly conjures them, or at least X, as well as a certain lasciviousness that is the _______ own ... It quickly and deservedly became the most famous of it’s kind in the history of popular music.”

• What item am I talking about which is also one of the most iconic T-shirt imprints across all genres??

• The blanks stand for the band and X is the lead vocalist.

The Rolling Stones’ Tongue and Lip logo.

• 23. X is a name commonly associated with the magi (the three wise men). It is also a central character (a donkey) of the film Y by Bresson. The story was inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and each episode in X's life represents one of the seven deadly sins. Bresson later stated that the film was "made up of many lines that intersect one another" and that Donkey was meant to be a symbol of Christian faith.

• Give X and Y.

X – Balthazar Y – Au Hasard Balthazar

24.

• The Japanese word literally meaning "wave man" or wanderer. In modern Japanese usage, the term also describes a salary-man who is "between employers" or a secondary school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university. However this word has a different meaning in popular cultural as well as during ancient Feudal Japan. The "wave men" are often depicted in the jidaigeki of Akira Kurosawa, in particular Yojimbo, Sanjuro and the film Seven Samurai.

• What’s the word?

Ronin