CAN HE DO IT ON A HOT, DUSTY

AFTERNOON IN BAWANA?

Quiz Meet #69-1

QM: Kumar Shashwat, Year I

w/ some forced entertainment questions because almost

everybody wanted that ffs. come on people

RULES• Infinite bounce w/ pounce• Direct: +10, 0• Pass: +5, 0• Pounce: +10, -10• Civilized pounce is a myth• Points remain same for all questions, unless

specified otherwise• QM’s decision final and binding

This image is from the final of the Tamil Nadu Premier League, at the Chepauk, on September 18, 2016. No need to identify the people here. What’s going on in the photo?

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Felicitating the players from the tied test, India vs Australia, in 1986.

The occasion was the 30th anniversary of the match.

• ____ ________ is a football manager and former player, currently the manager of Fenerbahce. He has coached 22 international, and domestic teams. He is known for his managerial career much more than that of his playing days.

He has a record of pulling teams out of barren runs, or simply rough phases. Three such stints pose as examples:

- Rangers, 1998, won a domestic treble in his first season, taking charge after a trophyless season after 12 years

- Netherlands NT, 2002, taking the team to the Euro 2004 SF after Louis Van Gaal failed to qualify for the 2002 WC.

- Sunderland, 2015, saving the team from relegation after taking charge in March.

Also, what would one call a shitty lawyer? 2

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The man is Dick Advocaat. The joke is obvious.

Who has been blanked out, and why?

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Tom Brady.

The deflated basketball implies Deflategate/Ballghazi – a scandal during an AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, where the footballs were said to have been tampered by the Patriots.

Arsenal appearances: 221Arsenal goals: 128England caps: 33Height: 1.75mSons: 2Sons who got sold off to Chelsea for 26m in 2006: 1

This legend was rejected and couldn’t play a certain role in a 2015 movie because his height didn’t permit him to do so. Identify the player, and what role am I talking about?

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The player is Ian Wright.He is 5-feet-9; two inches shorter than the

average Star Wars stormtrooper.

The first person to earn it was Frenchman Eugène Christophe on July 18, 1919. The colour was chosen either to reflect the off-white newsprint of the organising newspaper, L'Auto, or because it was an unpopular choice and therefore the only one available with which a manufacturer could work on late notice.

Christophe disliked it, anyway, and complained that spectators imitated a certain bird whenever he passed. It was a habit encouraged by his nickname of Cri-Cri (from "Christophe") which is French babytalk for a bird. Christophe remembered riders and spectators teasing: "Ah, the X! Isn't he beautiful, the [bird]? What are you doing, Madame Cri-Cri", adding, "And that lasted the whole course."

Safe to say it is an extremely worthy possession now. What is being talked about?

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The yellow jersey in Tour De France. The bird is the canary.

• Fanatics is a website that runs a large online retail store for the major North American leagues, including the MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL. Fans on the site – the jersey customization section, to be precise - were left complaining when they couldn’t use “X” as a name on the jersey, for it was banned by an employee who added it to the list of banned names on the site.

NFL, which faced the fans’ wrath on social media, said they had nothing to do with the decision. Once news of the ban spread, Fanatics officials decided that "X" didn't belong on the list and subsequently removed the name three days later.

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“The Real Deal” X vs. “Iron” Y II, billed as "The Sound and the Fury", was the second fight in the series, for the WBA Heavyweight Championship. X was the champion, and Y was the No.1 contender for the title. The buildup was tremendous, since X’s R11-stoppage victory in the first fight was one of the greatest upsets in boxing history.

X dominated for the first three rounds, warding off attack and stunning Y more than once.

Give X and Y. How did the fight end? 7

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X - Evander Holyfield; Y - Mike TysonTyson bit off Holyfield’s ear in R3, Holyfield

retained title via DQ.

stay positive

Week Of Greatness is a campaign run by Foot Locker every year, marking the release of various new ranges, and discounted sales. However, the advertisements are considered the most enjoyable part of the week. In the 2013 commercial, the theme was ‘All Is Right.’ It’s a play at restoration of order, and just settling everything once and for all.

One of the segments feature X and Y, two former competitors who have had a rough past. Y attempts to reconcile with X, by bringing a certain gift “kept in formaldehyde.” X accepts the gift, and they finally hug it out. X and Y?

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>dis my man X

>don do him an (((angery.jpg)))

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X – Evander Holyfield; Y – Mike Tyson

The gift Tyson brings is part of the ear he bit off in 1997.

Who holds the record for most Grand Slam titles in tennis history?

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Margaret Court

Court has 64 GS titles overall, but she still leads singles titles with 24, so that’s alright

Two sides, _ _ _ XI and IAS XI play a 20-over game of cricket in the first half of every year. The matches are noted to have had a record of dissatisfied spectators.

The 2016 game saw IAS XI chasing 128 in 20 overs. The run chase was superb till the 18th over, but things came to a standstill after that. With four runs required to win in the last two overs, runs as well as the efforts of the bureaucrats dried down.

MoTM of the previous four fixtures:2016: X (65 runs)2015: X (2 wickets)2014: X (59 runs)2013: X (match report unavailable)

Who is this beast?

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X - Akhilesh Yadav, of courseHis team is CM XI.

Lloyd Bernard Free is a former one-time NBA All Star who played in the league from 1975-1988. However, he has probably known for his name change the most.

On December 8, 1981, a day before his 28th birthday, he legally changed his first name to X. According to Free, "the fellas back in Brownsville gave me the nickname "X" when I was in junior high. I could do 360 dunks, so they just started calling me 'all-X', because all-city and all-county and things like that weren't good enough. Finally they just started calling me X. I'm still the same guy I was when I was Lloyd, though. I'll say what I'm going to do, and then I'll go out and do it.”

Give me his changed - and current – name, which does send out a positive message to everyone on this planet.

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World B. Free

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin... is a double album by a group X that was limited to a single copy sold in 2015. A legal agreement with the purchaser states it cannot be commercially exploited until the year 2103, although it can be released for free or played during listening parties. The Guinness Book of Records certified the album as the most valuable album in existence.

The album was auctioned to the highest bidder in 2015, who turned out to be the “most hated man in America”, Y.

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There’s another interesting element to this story, as a part of the contract between X and Y shows:

“The buying party also agrees that at any time during the stipulated 88 year period, the seller may legally plan and attempt to execute one heist or caper to steal back Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, which, if successful, would return all ownership rights to the seller. Said heist or caper can only be undertaken by currently active members of the X and/or actor Z, with no legal repercussions.”

With Z’s surprising inclusion, Twitter was quick to envisage this as the heist movie we’ve all been waiting to see.

Require X, Z, and Y.

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X – Wu-Tang Clan, Y – Martin Shkreli, Z – Bill Murray

As one of the team members of Bubblewrap Films recalls, “The entire brief for the music was that, here was a guy who is searching for the ultimate chance and has still not been lucky enough to get it. Rather than making it gimmicky and spoof-like, we wanted to make it soulful.”

Vikas Dubey wrote the lyrics, while Salvi and Utpat searched for the perfect singer - someone who could pull off an alaap and a sufi tune with equal ease. From Chandigarh, Alamgir Khan was chosen as the voice and the trio started jamming to find a tune.

All this work was done for a campaign, which gained serious momentum – the talk about it was much comparable to the very thing it was made for. Memes, jokes, and other forms of banter took over social media.

What is being talked about?

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Mauka MaukaStar Sports’ ad campaign for the ‘15 CWC

One word required.

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Face paints of KISS’ members

Where would you find the following questions? Focus on the first part for a huge hint. It is also almost a cardinal sin to be sitting in this room and not knowing the connect.

• 1. Which Indian Caste drives its name from a priestly class and form the Sanskrit term for Supreme Power?

• 2. Which playboy inspired Indian magazine set up in 1971 derives its meaning from a French word meaning of good deposition

• 3. Which Roman catholic saint who was burned at the stake was also known as the Virgin Warrior?

• 4. What was the American title of the 1966 British comedy/crime film Drop Dead Darling ?

• 5. In which 1949 landmark of feminist literature did Simone de Beauvoir quote Greek dramatist Menander's infamous line Woman is a pain that never goes away?

• 6. Which Beatles song supposedly arose when a female traffic warden bagged Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to Paul McCartney?

• 7. Who wrote the 1928 study 'Coming of Age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth fit Western civilisation’? 15

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Questions featured in Brahman Naman

X, formerly known as The ‘90s Are All That is a programming block that airs nightly on ________, a sister channel to its much more popular (big) sibling. The block shows reruns of classic 1980s, 1990s and early-mid 2000s children's programming, mostly shows that aired on Y during their original runs. The block airs eight hours, running every night from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Response to X’s debut was very positive; hashtags pertaining to the block became trending topics on Twitter and the Nielsen Ratings for ________ on the debut night increased to between eight and 60 times the ratings ________ received in previous weeks.

The name X has an incredibly strong face-value connection to Y, as it was one of the most identifiable logos of its time, which is a firm representative of Y’s golden era from 1984-1996, continued further by show Z after its debut in 2000. 16

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X – The SplatY – Nickelodeon

Z – Spongebob Squarepants

X is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. The word "X" was first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style. It is an energetic writing style in which the author is a protagonist, and it draws its power from a combination of social critique and self-satire. The Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso claimed that X was South Boston Irish slang for the last man standing after an all-night drinking marathon.

Thompson and his attorney friend Oscar Acosta decided to take a road trip, and take advantage of an assignment by Sports Illustrated to write a 250-word photograph caption on the Mint 400 motorcycle race. What was supposed to be a short caption turned into an entire book by Thompson, which was then adapted into a movie of the same name, in 1998. The book is said to be the best example of X.

Give X, and the book/movie. X and the movie has a more apparent connection, so that can make it easier for you. 17

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X – GonzoY – Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

• Barstool Sports is a popular satirical sports and men's lifestyle blog. It organized a knockout tourney in March to decide the best of all villains across various fields – the 64 entrants comprised personalities from sports, movies, television, and others.

The 64 narrowed down to 2. _______ _______ was the 11th seed in the movies division, while his opponent was Martin Shkreli, seeded 3rd in the “other” division.

Shkreli was favoured to win, but a series of tweets, which spat utter fire, were shot through by _______.

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Shooter McGavin, from Happy Gilmore

Why?

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Promotion of Doctor Strange.

gg;wp

Amidst rumors of a last-minute replacement of X in the form of Saif Ali Khan, Sumit Purohit, writer of Karan Anshuman's satire Bangistan created a modified trailer of the movie featuring Y instead. Here’s his explanation:

“We've come to terms with being dictated by Y and Pahlaj Nihalani (chairman, CBFC), who constantly support the government's decision, whether or not the decisions are taken by people qualified to do so. If this is what the government wants, then my trailer is an insight into how our films would look if they had their way.”

Some people seem to have taken this seriously, as Y’s filmography on Wikipedia features the movie, playing the role of “X.”

X and Y, please.

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X – Fawad Khan; Y – Gajendra ChauhanThe film: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil