An LVC made by me for a quiz meeting Explanation in the comment below

1. Mega Connect Quiz
There is an underlying theme in all
the questions in this quiz. Do not
shout out the theme if you know it.

2. 1.) Connect them to a unique
achievement

3. Only Japanese players to score a goal
in EPL
• Shinji Kagawa
• Hidetoshi Nakata
• Junichi Inamoto

4. 2.) Short bio of X
• A German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space
architect
• Central figure in Germany’s rocket development program. Designed
the V-2 combat rocket during World War II.
• Taken to the US as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip
where X worked on the United States Army Intermediate Range
Ballistic Missle program before being assimilated by NASA.
• At NASA, he served as director of Marshall Space Flight.
• His crowning achievement was to lead the development of Saturn V
booster rocket that helped land the first men on the moon in July
1969.
• According to NASA, he is ‘the greatest rocket scientist in history’.

5. Wernher von Braun

6. 3.) Which organization?

7. CERN
• Fun fact: One of the public exhibits at CERN
include The Hindu deity, Shiva engaging in the
Nataraja dance, parallelling the movements or
“dance” of subatomic particles.

8. 4.) Which album?
• Snippets of voices between and over the music are another notable
feature of the album.
• Staff and temporary occupants of the studio were asked to answer
a series of questions printed on flashcards. Questions such as
"What's your favourite colour?" and "What's your favourite food?",
before moving on to themes more central to the album (such as
madness, violence, and death). Questions such as "When was the
last time you were violent?", followed immediately by "Were you in
the right?", were answered in the order they were presented.
• A roadie, Chris Adamson, who was on tour with X, recorded the
explicit diatribe which opens the album: "I've been mad for fucking
years—absolutely years". The band's road manager Peter Watts
(father of actress Naomi Watts) contributed the repeated laughter
heard in 2 of their songs.

9. The Dark Side of the Moon

10. 5.) What change did this historic
document bring about?

11. • The British Mandate for Palestine, or simply the
Mandate for Palestine, was a legal commission for the
administration of the territory that had formerly
constituted the Ottoman Sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the
Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of
Mudros. The draft of the Mandate was formally
confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on
24 July 1922, amended via the 16 September 1922
Transjordan memorandum and which came into effect
on 29 September 1923 following the ratification of the
Treaty of Lausanne. The mandate ended at midnight on
14 May 1948.

12. 6.)
• Pablo Neruda (1904–73) denounced foreign multinational
corporate political dominance of Latin American countries with the
four-stanza poem "La United Fruit Co."; the second-stanza excerpts
read:
. . . The Fruit Company, Inc.
Reserved for itself the most succulent,
The central coast of my own land,
The delicate waist of America.
It rechristened its territories
As the “______________",
And over the sleeping dead,
Over the restless heroes
Who brought about the greatness,
The liberty and the flags,

13. Banana Republic

14. 7.) Which book?
• The first part of the Ibis trilogy
• Winner of:
– Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction
– Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
– British Book Design and Production Award

15. Sea of Poppies

16. 8.) Connect

17. Have all essayed the role of Al Capone
• Robert De Niro in The Untouchables (1987).
• William Devane as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The
New Adventures of Superman (13 November
1994)
• Anthony LaPaglia in Road to Perdition (2002), in a
deleted scene.
• Jon Bernthal in Night at the Museum: Battle of
the Smithsonian (2009).
• Stephen Graham in Boardwalk Empire (2010)

18. 9.) Connect (wrt to plot lines)

19. Hitchcock films based upon the idea of
an innocent man on the run
• The 39 Steps – The key to the theme

20. 10.)
• X are small humainoid and animal figurines made
during the late Jomon Period (14,000-400 BC) of
prehistoric Japan.
• There are various styles of X, depending on
exhumation area and time period. There are over
15,000 such figurines across Japan.
• The purpose of X remains unclear. They were
most likely effigies of people.
• Ancient astronaut theorists have suggested that
some X figurines may represent beings in
spacesuits.

21. Dogu

22. 11.)
• The International Campaign for Tibet presents
the X Award to individuals and institutions who
have made significant contributions to the public
understanding of Tibet and the fight for human
rights and democratic freedoms for the Tibetan
people. The award itself is a simple Tibetan
butter lamp, symbolizing the extraordinary light
that each recipient has drawn to the Tibet issue.
X Award is the most prestigious award in the
Tibet movement and has been presented each
year by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on behalf of
ICT.

23. The Light of Truth Awards

24. 12.) Possible explanations for?
• Deadly fungus could have been grown and
released when open to the air. (Supported by
Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Pathogenic Bacteria of Staphylococcus and
Pseudomonas genera have been found.
• Breeding ground for bats, and bat guano may
harbour histoplasmosis. However, at the
concentrations typically found, it is dangerous
only to those with weakened immune system.
• Air samples showed high levels of ammonia,
formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide.

25. The Curse of the Pharaohs
• The tomb was opened on November 29, 1922.
• Lord Carnarvon died on April 5, 1923 after a
mosquito bite became infected. His death was 4
months, and 7 days after the opening of the
tomb.
• "Death shall come on swift wings to him who
disturbs the peace of the King" – a phrase which
does not actually appear among the hieroglyphs
in KV62, even though it was said to appear in
several different places.

26. 13.)
• Fram is said to have sailed farther north
(85°57'N) and farther south (78°41'S) than any
other wooden ship. Which was its most
famous expedition?

27. • Nansen's 1893–1896 Arctic expedition
• Sverdrup's 1898–1902 Canadian Arctic islands
expedition
• Amundsen's 1910–1912 South Pole expedition

28. 14.) Put funda. This is a café at a place
called Baarle-Nassau

29. • The border's complexity results from a number of
equally complex medieval treaties, agreements,
land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda
and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking,
predominantly agricultural or built environments
became constituents of Brabant, other parts
devolved to Breda. These distributions were
ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline
settlements arrived at during the Treaty of
Maastricht in 1843.

30. 15.) What is being described here?
• The International Hydrographic Organization defines the
limits of X as follows:
• On the North. The Southern limits of the Gulfs of Suez [A
line running from Ràs Muhammed (27°43'N) to the South
point of Shadwan Island (34°02'E) and thence Westward on
a parallel (27°27'N) to the coast of Africa] and Aqaba [A line
running from Ràs al Fasma Southwesterly to Requin Island
(27°57′N 34°36′E) through Tiran Island to the Southwest
point thereof and thence Westward on a parallel (27°54'N)
to the coast of the Sinaï Peninsula].
• On the South. A line joining Husn Murad (12°40′N 43°30′E)
and Ras Siyyan (12°29′N 43°20′E).

31. The Red Sea

32. 16.) Out of over 100 types of these, here’s a list of the 7
most common ones, from lightest to darkest
Color Description
very light, slightly greenish (also called Candela, American Market Selection or jade);
Double Claro formerly popular, now rare.
Claro very light tan or yellowish.
Colorado Claro medium brown, includes Natural and English Market Selection
Colorado Distinctive reddish-brown (also called Rosado or Corojo)
Colorado
darker brown;
Maduro
Maduro Very dark brown or black;
Very black, (also called Double Maduro), often oily in appearance; has become more
Oscuro popular in the 2000s;

33. Cigar wrappers
A cigar's outermost leaves, or wrapper, come from the widest part of the plant. The wrapper
determines much of the cigar's character and flavor, and as such its color is often used to
describe the cigar as a whole.

34. 17.) Mythology surrounding which
god?
• X ('Earth-Maker') was considered the creator god by the people
who lived in this part of Peru before the Inca conquest. The Inca
took him into their pantheon, but considered him a lesser rival of
Viracocha, their creator god.
• The myths that survive of X are sparse and confused: some
accounts, for example, identify him as Manco Cápac's cowardly
brother Ayca, while others say that he, Manco Cápac and Viracocha
were the sole three sons of Inti, the sun god. Another story says
that he made the first man and the first woman, but forgot to give
them food — and when the man died and the woman prayed over
X’s head to his father Inti to make her the mother of all the peoples
of earth, X was furious. One by one, as the children were born, he
tried to kill them — only to be beaten and to be thrown into the sea
by her hero-son Wichama, after which he gave up the struggle and
contented himself by becoming the supreme god of fish.

35. Pacha Kamaq

36. 18.)
• X is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a
French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from
Carré's play X et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's X, Part 1. It debuted at the
Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19
March 1859.
• A performance of the opera is part of the story of Gaston
Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera and features in some
film adaptations including the 1925 version.
• Charles-François Gounod (17 June 1818 – 17 October 1893)
was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria (based on
a work by Bach) as well as his operas X and Roméo et
Juliette.

37. Faust

38. 19.) Wiki entry for X
• X may refer to:
• Kings of Bohemia, members of the Přemyslid dynasty
• X I of Bohemia, died 1230
• X II of Bohemia, died 1278
• Four Styrian margraves of the dynasty of the X’s
• X I, Margrave of Styria, died 1064
• X II, Margrave of Styria, died 1122
• X III, Margrave of Styria, died 1164
• X IV, Duke of Styria, 1192
• Count X Czernin, diplomat/politician in the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy
• X's (a chain of bookshops in the United Kingdom)

39. Ottokar

40. 20.)
• To produce the varied backgrounds and other illustrations for Y, X
drew on a much wider variety of pictorial sources, such as
newspaper clippings, than he had done for any of the earlier Z
adventures. He went to particular effort in order to depict the Y as a
historically accurate 17th century warship, studying the plans of
naval vessels from that period which were found in the Naval
Museum in Paris. As his primary influence for the fictional craft, he
chose a ship named Le Brillant which had been constructed in Le
Havre in 1690 by the shipwright Salicon and then decorated by Jean
Bérain the Elder. He also however studied other vessels from the
period, such as the Le Soleil Royal, La Couronne, La Royale and Le
Reale de France, in order to better understand 17th century ship
design. It was from the latter vessel that he gained a basis for his
design for the Y's jollyboat. No ship named the Y had ever been
listed in the annals of the French navy, so X instead took the name.

41. X – Herge, Y – The Unicorn, Z – Tintin
(the MEGA theme)