Lone wolf set by - aditya, amogh, pramod for Festember-X @ NITT

2. Festember One Night Stand
Mod
Shiny Toy Gun
Wolfie

3. General instructions
• Don’t copy. No, seriously. We will DQ you.
• Don’t get your cellphone out. Leave it on
silent, preferably off.
• Sit away from college mates.
• If you are found copying/discussing/texting,
you will be DQ’d. Sexting Shiny Toy Gun is
allowed, though.

4. About the quiz
• 30 questions + 2 vids.
– 1-8: Shiny Toy Gun aka Aditya aka Sex bomb
– 9-14: Wolfie aka Amogh Vaishampayan
– 15-whatever: Mod aka Pramod
Prelims should be high scoring. Most of the
questions are easy. Tiebreaks will be resolved by
tiebreak questions if necessary.
There are NO STAR QUESTIONS

5. 0 (obligatory)
धर्मक्षेत्रे करुक्षेत्रे सर्वेता ययत्सवः
ु ु ु
र्ार्काः पान्दवाश्चैवा ककर्कवमत संजय
ु
The beginning of what?

6. • The beginning lines of the Bhagavad Gita

7. 1
• So, X's history dates back to 1904, when Amadeo Ginnini founded the
Bank of Italy in ________ to serve immigrants that other banks refused to
serve. After the _____ disaster, Amadeo was able to take his money from
the bank and rescue his funds while the other banks were either left
smoldering or had their vaults locked and unable to access. Because of
this, he was able to start up a much needed lending service almost
immediately after the disaster. The money was lent to anyone who wanted
to rebuild and interestingly, retrieved all the cash lent over time. He
bought Banca dell' Italia Meridionale in Italy and expanded his banking
operations in 1922. In March 1927, Amadeo consolidated his Bank of Italy
(101 branches) and branches of his other enterprises (175 branches) and
formed the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association with a
capital of $30 mil and resources of $115 mil.
• Finally, in 1928, he merged with _____ and consolidated with his other
bank holdings to create Z.

8. • Bank of America

9. 2
• "Y X" is the popular name of one of Z's most popular compositions dated
27 April 1810. The original autographed manuscript has been lost and the
piece itself was not published until 1865.
• It is not certain who "X" was. Some scholars have suggested she was Z's
fifth mistress, while others have suggested that the discoverer of the
piece, Ludwig Nohl, may have transcribed the title incorrectly and the
original work may have been dedeicated to a Therese Malfatti, a student
of Z whom he proposed to in 1810 (She turned him down and that was
quite the punch in the balls).
• Basically, he was invited to the Malfatti household for a party hosted by
Therese's dad. He played a bagatelle that he had composed just for her
and was about to propose but Z was quite drunk and incapable to do
anything, let alone propose. All he could do was scribble Therese's name
on the title page of the bagatelle but it was quite illegible and is a possible
reason attributed to the name of the composition.

10. • Beethoven’s Fur Elise

11. 3
Put fundae.

13. 4
• Critics have compared X with Bob Marley saying
that his "sound that fuses Bob marley, conscious
American Hip Hop and brilliant protest poetry."
His style has also been compared to Eminem,
though his subject matter is very different.
According to X, his work is "urgent with a
message", talking about the situation in his
homeland and calling for an end to the
bloodshed. He moved to the United States when
he was 13 and then to Toronto. His name in the
Somali language means 'traveller'.

15. 5
• X Limited is a tyre manufacturing company based in Mumbai, India. X is an
abbreviation for ______________ (Electrical Cables and Allied Products of
Turin). Founded in Italy as X Tyres by Virginio _____ Tedeschi, the company
established its manufacturing in India in 1958 and was sold to Z by
Virginio's heir Alberto Tedeschi (P's stepfather) in the 1970s. The
company's Indian division was then taken over by RPG Enterprises in the
year 1982 which also got the rights to the X brand and renamed the
company as X Limited. Its tagline is "Take it on“.
• P was born in Turin, Italy, and is heiress to the fortune created by the
Italian tire manufacturing company X, founded in the 1920s by her
grandfather Virginio _______ Tedeschi. The company was sold in the
1970s to ______. The family moved to France in 1975, reportedly to
escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist
terrorist group active in Italy in the 1970s. P grew up in France from age
seven and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She went to Paris to
study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model. Later
in her life she became a lot more famous for certain things.

17. 6
• Usually, in the Kansai region, eel are split open down the back, whereas in Kanto
they are split open down the stomach, but in Tokyo, traditionally a martial city,
unwanted associations with X caused chefs to shy away from the stomach-splitting
method, with the result that eel are split open down the back here, too, in the
middle of Kanto. Conversely, in Osaka, the largest city in the Kansai region, it is said
that the expression "spill one's guts" led to the adoption of the stomach-splitting
method. Other slight regional differences in preparation exist: for instance in
Kansai eel are dressed and skewered, then roasted, but Tokyo chefs add an extra
step of steaming them. Which method is better is of course a matter of personal
preference, and in the end, I believe the skills and philosophy of each individual
chef affect the taste more than any difference in cooking method.
• In the preparation of Eel (Unagi) in Japan, usually in the Kansai region, they are
split open down the back, whereas in Kanto they are split open down the stomach,
but in Tokyo,the latter method is not adopted to avoid all associations with X.

19. 7
• 1.7 billion were there for his birth. 220
countries tuned in for his first step. The world
stood still for that stolen kiss.

21. 8
• The Nasadiya Sukta (approximately means "not the non-existent") is the 129th
hymn of the 10th Mandala of the Rig Veda. It basically talks about the origin of the
universe and other aspects of cosmology.
• Basically, the pada (line) 7b is considered defective because its two syllables short
and it says:
• "if he has created it; or if not [..]"
• Experts say that the defect is a conscious device employed by the rishi to express his
confusion of the possibility that the world may not be created.
• Another defect in the pada 7d goes like:
• "he verily knows; or if he does not know [..]"
• Both Indian theology and Western philology have released large commentaries in
this body of text. Some portions of the text basically say "not the non-existent
existed, nor did the existent exist then", paralleled by "then not death existed, nor
the immortal".
• Because of the text, this hymn is considered the earliest forms of X.

22. Agnosticism

23. 9
Identify the babe

24. Sonia Gandhi

25. 10
Put specific funda

26. Lagaan

27. 11
Where and for what reason would you find these symbols?

28. The five categories for stars on the Hollywood walk of fame

29. 12
1. I will develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways.
2. I will forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements.
3. I will continually work at developing love, happiness and loyalty in my family.
4. I will look for the good in all people and make them feel worthwhile.
5. If I have nothing good to say about a person, I will say nothing.
6. I will always be as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my
own.
7. I will maintain an attitude of open-mindedness.
8. I will maintain respect for those in authority and demonstrate this respect at all
times.
9. I will always remain loyal to my God, my country, family and my friends.
10. I will remain highly goal-oriented throughout my life because that positive attitude
helps my family, my country and myself.
What is this list of 10 rules?

31. 13
Put
fundae.

33. 14 (two pages)
• X was raised by her parents, Jacqueline and Clancy Bouvier. She had a pair
of sisters, both of whom vocally disapproved of her husband whom she
met while in detention during high school. She was at first wary, but
agreed to go to the prom with him, although she went with some jackass
called Artie Ziff. However, she regretted going with Artie and ended up
with her husband.
• X had been unemployed for most of her life, choosing to be a homemaker.
However, she had several job stints. These include working as a technician,
selling houses, owning her own pretzel business and working at an erotic
bakery.
• X had high morals, and has led protests against violent TV shows. She was
also a prominent member of the "Citizens' Committee on Moral Hygiene."
She was also a feminist in her youth (and one of the protests got her into
detention in the first place).

34. 14 (page 2)
• X also had a sensual side and appeared as a playboy playmate once.
• As her family slowly rose to fame, there were supporters and haters. One
of these was Barbara Bush. X, disturbed by this reaction, wrote a letter to
her. The letter has since been made public.
• Dear First Lady, I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply
hurt. Heaven knows we're far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe
just a wee bit short from normal; but as Dr. Seuss says, "a person is a
person". I try to teach my children [...] always to give somebody the
benefit of the doubt and not talk badly about them, even if they're rich.
It's hard to get them to understand this advice when the very First Lady in
the country calls us not only dumb, but "the dumbest thing" [...]. [...] I
hope there is some way out of this controversy. I thought, perhaps, it
would be a good start to just speak my mind.
—X in her letter to Barbara Bush

36. 15
• X (born February 22, 1985) is a model and actress at the
city theatre. As of 2010, she is the best-paid model in her
country.
• A famous model and actress in her country, X rose to
international prominence during 2010 as part of a
promotion for a mobile phone company.
• X measures 38-24-37 and has done numerous photoshoots,
searches for which shot up this year. Some of these
photoshoots did not necessarily have her clothed. She has
been called by some as the biggest fan of the 2010 ____.

37. Larissa Riquelme

38. 16

39. Deepwater Horizon

40. 17
• An ethnic Okinawan immigrant to the United States, he learned karate originally from his father,
who had been a fisherman. X initially had a job working for the father of his best friend, Sato, who
was also taught karate by X's father. When X fell in love with a young woman named Yukie, who
was arranged to marry Sato, Sato felt dishonored by this, and challenged X to a fight to the death.
To avoid the fight, X left Okinawa and emigrated to the United States.
• After leaving Okinawa, X met and married another woman, Liks Umkum. X and his wife were
expecting their first born when Mrs. X was interned in the Manzanar Japanese internment camp in
California during World War II. During this time, X joined the U.S. Army and received the Medal of
Honor. During his service, Mrs. X and their son died in the Manzanar camp due to complications
during childbirth, a loss that haunts him for decades.
• What X did in the years after the war is not clear. He eventually took up employment as a
maintenance man for an apartment block. This is the point where details about him are recorded
again.
• In 1985 X learnt his father was dying, and returned to Okinawa, where he was reunited with Yukie
briefly. Sato relentlessly tried to goad X into a fight, but after X saved Sato from death during a
typhoon, Sato relented and he and X became friends again.
• He is known to have moved into the business of selling bonsai trees.

42. 18
• Consider again that ___. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you
love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who
ever was, lived out their lives.
• The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,
ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and
coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every
young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and
explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every
"supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there –
on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
• - Carl Sagan
• Put fundae/ What is this about

43. Pale blue dot

44. 19
• The term "X" comes from a Vulgar Latin adverb: for instance, in the
expression ___ loqui, "to speak in Roman" (that is, the Latin
vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in Latin"
(Medieval Latin, the conservative version of the language used in
writing and formal contexts or as a lingua franca), and with
barbarice loqui, "to speak in Barbarian" (the non-Latin languages of
the peoples that conquered the Roman Empire). From this adverb
the noun X originated, which applied initially to anything written in
the Roman vernacular.
• The word X with the modern sense has the same origin. In the
medieval literature of Western Europe, serious writing was usually
in Latin, while popular tales, often focusing on human aspects and
relations, were composed in the vernacular and came to be called
"X".

45. Romance

46. 20
• X is considered the reason it became acceptable to
display graphic violence on screen. Until X, there were
no overtly violent scenes in mainstream cinema.
• Although X received an x rating at the time of release,
it has since been dumbed down to a '15' rating.
• The defining 45 second scene of X took about a week
to film due to equipment being damaged by water and
general difficulty in filming in a small area. The director
was also forced to lie to the censor board regarding
some of the specifics to ensure it was passed.

48. 21
• The X, traditionally, takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in
October. In 1994, the schedule was modified in response to reunification so that if the first
Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then it will go on until October 3 (German Unity
Day). Thus, it is now 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2nd and 18 days when it is
October 1st. In 2010, it lasts exceptionally until the first October Monday, to mark the 200
year jubilee of the event. X is held on an area named the Theresienwiese (field, or meadow,
of Therese), often called Wiesn for short.
• For the general medical treatment of visitors the Bavarian branch of German Red Cross
operates an aid facility and provides emergency medical care on the grounds, staffed with
around 100 volunteer medics and doctors per day. They serve together with special
detachments of police, fire department and other municipal authorities in the service center
at the Behördenhof (authorities' court), a large building specially built for the X at the east
side of the Theresienwiese, just behind the tents. There is also a place for lost & found
children, a lost property office, a security point for women and other public services.
• Since 1950, there has been a traditional festival opening: A twelve gun salute and the first
tapping at 12:00 by the incumbent Mayor with the cry "O' zapft is!"

50. 22
• X is a quantity that was defined (in poor taste)
by comic artist Randall Munroe. It is said to
have a value of 413 nanohertz. Although
differences are commonly detected, this is
considered the best average from the bell
curve.
• What is this the frequency of?

52. 23
• 1. Matthew Patel is Ramona's first evil ex-boyfriend. According to Ramona, they only kissed once, and broke
up after about a week. He is Indian, has mystical powers and can summon "Demon Hipster Chicks" at will.
• 2. Lucas Lee is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, a pro skateboarder turned movie star (and a "sell out").
• 3. Todd Ingram is Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend. He is a bass player for the Clash at Demonhead. He has
special "vegan-based" psychic powers (although he is secretly consuming non-vegan foods). He is arrogant,
narcissistic, uncaring, and a habitual liar. He dates Envy, his childhood love, but cheats on her repeatedly
with Lynette, the band's drummer, as well as with other girls.
• 4. Roxanne "Roxie" Richter is Ramona's fourth evil ex and her former college roommate. She is a "half-ninja"
and an accomplished fine artist, who taught Ramona much of what she knows in terms of her ninja abilities
and subspace. Roxie has an inferiority complex over her "half-ninja" background, as well as her figure.
• 5. & 6. Kyle & Ken Katayanagi are Ramona's fifth and sixth evil ex-boyfriends, a pair of Japanese twins who
often finish each other's sentences. The pair are "expert roboticists" who summon robots to fight X. They
vowed to work together closely once the pair realized Ramona had been cheating on them with each other.
• 7. Gideon Gordon Graves is the 7th evil ex-boyfriend, the series' main antagonist and the leader of the
League of Ramona's Evil Ex-Boyfriends and suggested to be Ramona's boyfriend previous to X, in New York
City. He is the owner of "The Chaos Theater" (A reference to EarthBound), in NYC and "GGG Heavy
Industries," which is opening "Chaos Theater Toronto".

54. 24
• One of the earliest known references to this myth appears in a letter
written in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley. Stukeley wrote
that, "This (...) makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and
may be discerned."
• X is a maximum 9.1 m (30 ft) wide, and is about the same color as the soil
surrounding it. Based on the optics of resolving power (distance versus the
width of the iris: a few millimeters for the human eye, meters for large
telescopes) only an object of reasonable contrast to its surroundings
which is 70 mi (110 km) or more in diameter (1 arc-minute) would be
visible to the unaided eye. The apparent width of the X from the moon is
the same as that of a human hair viewed from 2 miles away. To see the X
would require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal (20/20)
vision.

55. • Myth: The great wall of China is visible from
the moon

56. 25
• X is an American franchise. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc.
(DAI). X is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with approximately
33,246 outlets in 92 countries/territories as of August 15, 2010.
• Doctor's Associates was founded by Fred De Luca and Peter Buck in 1965, when
they opened the first X. The sole purpose of this company is overseeing the X
chain. The term "Doctor's Associates" was chosen due to Peter Buck having a Ph.D.
• Fred De Luca borrowed $1,000 from family friend Haydee Piñero and Peter Buck to
start his first shop in 1965, when he was only 17 years old. He was trying to raise
money to pay for college. On the radio advertisement they had promoted the
name as Pete's ____, which sounded like "Pizza Marines", so they changed the
name to "Pete's ____"; eventually it adopted the "X" name and they decorated the
store with maps of the New York City ___; a theme that continues to this day.
• (All blanks are different)

58. 26
• A Snellen chart is used by professionals and others to measure ____.
Snellen charts are named after the Dutch guy Hermann Snellen who
developed the chart during 1862.
• The traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block letters.
• The symbols on achart are formally known as "optotypes". In the case of
the traditional Snellen chart, the optotypes have the appearance of block
letters. They are not, however, letters from any ordinary typographer's
font.
• Only the ten Sloan letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, Z are used in the
traditional Snellen chart.
• What are these charts used for?

60. 27
• On 19 August 2010 the Daily Mail reported that there was a legal dispute progressing
between an unnamed publisher and the BBC over some publishing plans. It stated that the
dispute surrounded X's dissatisfaction at being unable to exploit his fame, and earning an
estimated £5,000 and £10,000 per show, compared to six and seven figure earnings by the
others. It described the situation as incredibly tense, with Y said to be deeply upset, and with
show insiders fearing that X could either quit the show, or be fired.
• The publisher was confirmed to be HarperCollins when legal action was confirmed to have
commenced under the High Court in London on 23 August, as the BBC sued the publisher for
an attempt to profit from the unauthorised use of ___, maintaining that it would spoil
viewers' enjoyment of the show. The publisher responded, stating "We are disappointed that
the BBC has chosen to spend licence fee payers' money to suppress this book and will
vigorously defend the perfectly legitimate right of this individual to tell his story".
• On 1 September 2010 after a day and a half of hearings, the case concluded, with the judge
finding against the BBC, refusing to grant an injunction blocking the publication. In reporting
the judgement, the BBC News revealed the proposed book was to be called The Man in the
White Suit, and was indeed to be about Z. HarperCollins confirmed that the reasons for
declining the injunction were to be given by the judge later, in a private judgement.

61. • Ben Collins
• The Stig

62. 28
• The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, is an agency of the
federal government of the United States charged with the transportation
of persons in legal custody between prisons, detaining centers,
courthouses, and other locations. It is the largest prison transport network
in the world.
• JPATS was formed in 1995 from the merger of the Marshals Service air
fleet with that of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. JPATS
transports more than a quarter million prisoners and aliens each year.
• Usually, the airline employs Boeing 727 or McDonnell-Douglas MD-83
aircraft to transport convicts and illegal residents of the United States for
extradition. Smaller jets and turboprops are also used to transport
individual prisoners who are considered particularly dangerous.
• JPATS aircraft use the ICAO designator DOJ with the callsign JUSTICE.
• How do we better know the JPATS?

63. Con-air

64. 29

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