Some of the questions are from the various quizzes held in Rendezvous '11

1. Quiz Meet

2. As X explained to rock journalist Cameron Crowe:
The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road
went on and on and on. It was a single-track road which
neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the East and
West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you
were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and
there was seemingly no end to it. It's one of my
favourites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In the Light' and two
or three others really were the finest moments. But „Y' in
particular. It was so positive, lyrically.
What song?

3. With the success of crime films such as Mean Streets (1973),
about his old neighborhood, and Taxi Driver (1976), he was a
rising star. In 1979, he acquired screen rights to Asbury's book,
however it took twenty years to get the production moving forward.
Difficulties arose with reproducing the monumental city scape of
nineteenth century __________ with the style and detail he
wanted; almost nothing in ___________looked as it did in that
time, and filming elsewhere was not an option.
What film are we talking about?

4. X has been critically noted for its realistic portrayal of World War II
combat. In particular, the sequence depicting the Omaha landings
was voted the "best battle scene of all time" by Empire magazine
and was ranked number one on TV Guide's list of the "50
Greatest Movie Moments". The scene cost US$12 million and
involved up to 1,500 extras, some of whom were members of the
Irish Reserve Defence Forces. Members of local reenactment
groups such as the Second Battle Group were cast as extras to
play German soldiers. In addition, twenty to thirty actual
amputees were used to portray US soldiers maimed during the
landing. Y did not storyboard the sequence, as he wanted
spontaneous reactions and for "the action to inspire me as to
where to put the camera“.
ID X & Y.

5. During Ellen Burstyn's impassioned monologue
about how it feels to be old, cinematographer
Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift
off-target. When director X called "cut" and
confronted him about it, he realized the reason
Libatique had let the camera drift was because he
had been crying during the take and fogged up the
camera's eyepiece. This was the take used in the
final print.
ID X or the movie.

6. Y said “X came out of Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the
West Indies; "where I got the 'Dead Man's Chest' - that was
the seed". If it was "the seed" for Skeleton Island, the phrase
"dead man's chest", the novel in general, or all, remains
unclear.

7. "It's actually really interesting to me. It's sort of based on the
research that's sort of happening now, about the fact that your
genes might be able to hold memory. And you could argue
semantics and say it's instinct, but how does a baby bird know
to eat a worm, as opposed to a cockroach, if its parents don't
show it? And it's about this science company trying to, Matrix-
style, go into people's brains and find out an ancestor who
used to be an assassin, and sort of locate who that person is.“
What is being talked about?

8. Connect.

9. The song's original title was “X," and it was intended to
comfort Julian Lennon from the stress of his parents'
divorce. McCartney said, "I started with the idea
‘________,' which was Julian. I knew it was not going to
be easy for him. I always feel sorry for kids in divorces
... I had the idea [for the song] by the time I got there. I
changed it to ‘_____' because I thought that sounded a
bit better.“ Julian Lennon discovered the song had been
written for him almost twenty years later.

10. In the book, many difficult theological issues are deliberately
addressed, including fate, predestination, the Trinity, the
introduction of sin and death into the world, as well as the
nature of angels, fallen angels, Satan and the war in heaven.
_______ draws on his knowledge of languages, and diverse
sources — primarily Genesis, much of the New Testament,
the deuterocanonical Book of Enoch, and other parts of the
Old Testament. _________'s epic is often considered one of
the greatest literary works in the English language, along with
those of Shakespeare.
What book is being talked about?

11. X is a little wooden boy who lives in his own little House-for-One
in Toyland. The first book explains X's origins. He was carved by
a wood carver but ran away after the man began to make a
wooden lion, which scared X. As he wanders through the
woods, with no clothes, money or home, he meets Big Ears, a
friendly brownie. Big Ears decides that X is a toy and takes him
to live in Toyland. He generously provides X with a set of
clothing and buys a build-it-yourself house for him.
Give me X and the creator.

12. The album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead
vocalist X experienced during his adolescence,
including drug abuse and the constant fighting and
divorce of his parents. Y takes its title from the
previous name of the band. The album is listed in the
book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It
was ranked #11 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of
the Decade
Which album?

13. A set of research results that indicate that listening to X's music may
induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds
of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning;"
Popularized versions of the theory, which suggest that "listening to X
makes you smarter," or that early childhood exposure to it has a
beneficial effect on mental development;
A US trademark for a set of commercial recordings and related
materials, which are claimed to harness the effect for a variety of
purposes. The trademark owner, Don Campbell, Inc., claims benefits far
beyond improving spatio-temporal reasoning or raising
intelligence, defining the mark as "an inclusive term signifying the
transformational powers of music in health, education, and well-being.“
This is known as the X effect. Identify X

14. Yes, renaissance
Artists. I know.
In what better
way do we
remember them?

15. Who is depicted in the
picture???

16. It was a very difficult period I have to say. All
your childhood dreams had been sort of
realised and we had the biggest selling records
in the world and all the things you got into it
for. The girls and the money and the fame and
all that stuff it was all ... everything had sort of
come our way and you had to reassess what
you were in it for thereafter, and it was a pretty
confusing and sort of empty time for a while ...
David gilmour said this during The recording
of album X.
ID X.

17. "I suppose I was just thinking, 'That'd be a
good way to start a comic book: have a
famous super-hero found dead.' As the
mystery unraveled, we would be led
deeper and deeper into the real heart of
this super-hero's world, and show a reality
that was very different to the general
public image of the super-hero.“
Whose words and what is he talking
about?

18. In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, X was
arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and
pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful sex with a
minor. To avoid sentencing, X fled to his home in
London, and then moved on to France the following
day. In September 2009, X was arrested by Swiss police
at the request of U.S. authorities who asked for his
extradition. In July 2010, the Swiss rejected that request
and instead released him from custody and declared
him a "free man.“ Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and former President of Poland, argued that
the director "should be forgiven this one sin.“
ID X.

19. Citizen Kane (1941)
Reds (1981)
Beauty & the Beast
(1991)
X(2007)
Connect and give me X.

20. X fired guitarist Dave Navarro and were on the
verge of breaking up. Flea told Kiedis, "the only
way I could imagine carrying on is if we got Y
back in the band."With Y free of his addictions
and ailments, Kiedis and Flea thought it was an
appropriate time to invite him back. When Flea
visited him at his home and asked him to rejoin
the band, Y began sobbing and said "nothing
would make me happier in the world.
ID X & Y.

22. Following this breakthrough film, his career quickly
grew in stature as he played a series of roles that
combined good looks with cynical detachment,
including a prisoner-of-war entrepreneur in X(1953),
for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor,
a carefree playboy in Sabrina (1954), a dashing war
correspondent in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955), perhaps his most widely recognised role as an
ill-fated prisoner in The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957).
ID the actor and the movie X.

23. X, also known as nuit américaine, is the name for
cinematographic techniques used to simulate a night scene.
Historically, infrared movie film was used to achieve an
equivalent look with black-and-white film.
A great way to achieve this effect is to tune the white
balance of the camera to a yellow source if there is no
tungsten setting. Another way to make a more believable
night scene is to underexpose the footage to the desired
degree of night/darkness. This depends on the amount of
light shown or believed to be in the given scene.
The title of François Truffaut's film X(1973) is a reference to
this technique.

24. The rebirth of X's career began with the eve-of-Pearl Harbor
drama Y(1953), for which he won an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor. This role and performance marked a
turnaround in X's career: after several years of critical and
commercial decline, becoming an Oscar-winning actor
helped him regain his position as the top recording artist in
the world.
Also in 1953, X starred in the NBC radio program Rocky
Fortune. His character, Rocko Fortunato (aka Rocky
Fortune) was a temp worker for the Gridley Employment
Agency who stumbled into crime-solving by way of the odd
jobs to which he was dispatched. The series aired on NBC
radio Tuesday nights from October 1953 to March
1954, following the network's crime drama hit Dragnet.
During the final months of the show, just before the 1954
Oscars, it became a running gag that X would manage to
work the phrase “Y" into each episode, a reference to his
Oscar-nominated performance.

25. It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) (Sinatra, Lawford)
Some Came Running (1958) (Sinatra, Martin, and MacLaine)
Never So Few (1959) (Sinatra, Lawford, and initially Davis, who
was replaced by Steve McQueen)
Ocean's Eleven (1960) (Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Lawford, and
Bishop)
Sergeants 3 (1962) (Sinatra, Martin, Davis, Lawford, and Bishop)
4 for Texas (1963) (Sinatra and Martin)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) (Sinatra, Martin, Davis, and
initially Lawford, who was replaced by Bing Crosby)
Marriage on the Rocks (1965) (Sinatra and Martin)
Texas Across the River (1966) (Martin and Bishop)
Salt and Pepper (1968) (Davis and Lawford)
One More Time (1970) (Davis and Lawford)
The Cannonball Run (1981) (Martin and Davis)
Cannonball Run II (1984) (Martin, Davis, Sinatra, and MacLaine)
What is this the filmography of?

26. The narc in the film, Sweet Smell of
success, Lt Harry Kello, is based on NYPD
detective Eddie Egan. Eddie Egan was
later immortalized as the character X.
ID X.

27. Famous first words

28. Far out in the uncharted backwaters
of the unfashionable end of the
Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies
a small unregarded yellow sun.

29. I don‟t want to be a product of my
environment. I want my environment to
be a product of me.

30. Load up your guns and bring your
friends,
Its fun to lose and to pretend.

31. It is a truth, universally acknowledged,
that a single man in posession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife.

32. Rosebud

33. Infinite bounce

34. What appears to be fact from comments made from a variety
of sources is that the boy was a model in his teen years who
hung around X's studio and volunteered to pose for the oil
work. X's own comments about the boy were that he was one
of the:
“ local types, actors, ladies, gentlemen, delinquents...
He stayed there, sometimes the whole day. He watched me
work. He loved that. “
ID X.

35. An early example of the social novel, the book calls the
public's attention to various contemporary evils, including
the Poor Law, child labour and the recruitment of children
as criminals. X mocks the hypocrisies of his time by
surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and
dark humour. The novel may have been inspired by the
story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of
hardships as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely
read in the 1830s. It is likely that X's own early youth as a
child labourer contributed to the story's development.
ID X.

36. X is a genre of electronic dance music that
originated in south London, England. Its overall
sound has been described as "tightly coiled
productions with overwhelming bass lines and
reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and
occasional vocals“. It has subsequently also
produced a dance form also having the name X.

37. The word is derived from two greek words which
translate to soul-manifesting. An X experience is
characterized by the striking perception of aspects of
one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative
exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly
ordinary fetters.
What is the word?

38. LVC

44. Movie dialogues
round

45. This car. Goeth would have bought
this car. Why did I keep the car?
Ten people right there. Ten people.
Ten more people.

46. “He told me enough, he told me you killed
him”
“No, I am your father.”

47. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not
going to take this anymore!"

48. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"

49. May I say, my dear Colonel, that it's good to
breathe the air of the Gestapo again. You
know, you're quite famous in London,
Colonel. They call you Concentration Camp
Ehrhardt.

50. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in
here! This is the War Room!"

51. Mega Connect Round

52. MC 1 (+30/-15)
 X was an American entertainer, actor and
performance artist. While often referred to as a
comedian, X did not consider himself one. He
disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as
it was traditionally understood, referring to
himself instead as a "song-and-dance man."
Elaborate hoaxes and pranks were major elements
of his career. His act maintained a steady cult
following, and he continues to be greatly
respected amongst comedians for both his original
material and unflinching commitment to
character. He is mostly remembered for his
preformance as Latka in the TV series Taxi.

53. MC 1 (+20/-10)
 In July 1974, the first issue of Hustler was published.
Although the first few issues went largely unnoticed,
within a year the magazine became highly lucrative and X
was able to pay his tax debts. In November 1974, Hustler
showed the first "pink-shots," or photos of open vulvas. X
had to fight to publish each issue, as many people,
including some at his distribution company, found the
magazine too explicit and threatened to remove it from
the market. Shortly thereafter, X was approached by a
paparazzo who had taken nude pictures of former First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis while she was
sunbathing on vacation in 1971. He purchased them for
$18,000 and published them in the August 1975 issue.
That issue attracted widespread attention, and 1 million
copies were sold within a few days.

54. MC 1(+10/-5)
 X showed prodigious ability from his earliest
childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on
keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of
five and performed before European royalty. At
17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from
his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the
capital, where he achieved fame but little financial
security. During his final years in Vienna, he
composed many of his best-known
symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of
the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the
time of X's death.
 ID the artist X.

55. MC 2(+30/-15)
 The two most successful periods for the band were
during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they
were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK
number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to
1987, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine
McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. X‟s
second album after the incorporation of Nicks and
Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S.
Top 10 singles and remained at No.1 on the
American albums chart for 31 weeks. To date the
album has sold over 40 million copies
worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling
album of all time.
 The band is named by combining the names of two
of peter green‟s former bandmates. ID the band.

56. MC 2(+20/-10)
 At the end of 1974, with a recording session already
booked in Munich to record another album, Taylor
quit the X. Taylor said in 1980, "I was getting a bit fed
up. I wanted to broaden my scope as a guitarist and
do something else... I wasn't really composing songs
or writing at that time. I was just beginning to
write, and that influenced my decision... There are
some people who can just ride along from crest to
crest; they can ride along somebody else's success.
And there are some people for whom that's not
enough. It really wasn't enough for me. The band X
is one of the most popular and best selling bands of
all time with hits like ‘its only rock and roll’ and
‘gimme shelter’.

57. MC 3(+10/-5)
 Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of
blues rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock,
combining the psychedelia-themed lyrics, Eric
Clapton's blues guitar playing, Jack Bruce's
voice and prominent bass playing and Ginger
Baker's jazz-influenced drumming. The
group's third album, Wheels of Fire, was the
world's first platinum-selling double album.
They are widely regarded as being the world's
first successful supergroup. In their career,
they sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
 Identify the band.

58. Take your pick

59. Pop Art
Lord of the rings
Alfred hitchcock
Bollywood
19th century prose
Pink floyd

60. The best-known pop artist currently in Japan is Takashi
Murakami, whose group of artists, Kaikai Kiki, is world-
renowned for their own mass-produced but highly abstract
and unique superflat art movement, a surrealist, post-
modern movement whose inspiration comes mainly from
anime and Japanese street culture, is mostly aimed at
youth in Japan, and has made a large cultural impact.
Some artists in Japan, like Yoshitomo Nara, are famous for
their graffiti-inspired art, and some, such as Murakami, are
famous for mass-produced plastic or polymer figurines.
Many pop artists in Japan use surreal or obscene, shocking
images in their art, taken from Japanese X.
Tell me X.

61. X was the lord of Rivendell. X remained in Rivendell until
the destruction of both the Ring and Sauron in The Return
of the King. He then travelled to Minas Tirith to see Arwen
marry Aragorn, now King of the Reunited Kingdom of
Arnor and Gondor. Three years later, at the approximate
age of 6,520, X left Middle-earth to go over the Sea with
the Ring-bearers, never to return.

62. Although the film lasts 80 minutes and is supposed
to be in "real time", the time frame it covers is
actually longer - a little more than 100 minutes.
This is accomplished by speeding up the action:
the formal dinner lasts only 20 minutes, the sun
sets too quickly and so on. The September 2002
issue of Scientific American contains a complete
analysis of this technique (and the effect it has on
the viewers, who actually feel as if they watched a
100-minutes movie).
Name the movie.

63. With the commercial success of thrillers like Baazi,
Jaal, Aar Paar and C.I.D. as well as comedies like Mr.
& Mrs. '55, X and his studio were financially secure
and established. From 1957, he could now make
movies he really wanted to make, including Y. In
2002, Y was ranked at #160 on the Sight & Sound
critics' and directors' poll of all-time greatest films. In
2005, Y was rated as one of the 100 best films of all
time by Time Magazine, which called it "the soulfully
romantic of the lot." Indiatimes Movies ranks the
movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood
Films. On the occasion of Valentine's Day 2011 , Time
magazine has declared it as one of the top 10
romantic movies of all time.
ID X & Y.

64. This is the original cover
Of the Classic novel
Written by Victor hugo with
Many subsequent adaptations
Into film.
Which novel?

65. This maybe the most famous power station of the
world. The station ceased generating electricity in
1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of
the best known landmarks in London and is Grade
II* listed. The station's celebrity owes to numerous
cultural appearances, which include a shot in The
Beatles' 1965 movie Help!, and being used in the
cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals. It was
recently referenced in a movie. Give me the name of
the power station and the movie.

66. Film Noir

67. A is an author of hard boiled detective novels. He is best
remembered for creating the character of Samuel Spade. B also a
very famous author of the same era is best remembered for
creating the character of Philip Marlowe. Both of which were
portrayed by C in their very famous movie adaptations. A also
created the characters of D & E of the thin man series. F also
glorified the concept of a femme fatale with his thriller Double
indemnity. Outside the United states, the genre was started by
G directed thriller Rififi and was continued by H through his
movies Le samourai and Le cercle rouge.
Later this genre changed a little in the 70s and gave rise to I. The
most acclaimed thrillers of which are Roman Polanski‟s J and
Martin Scorsese‟s K.

68. The End