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Round 1-ETYMOLOGY
• Word origins will be given
• 90 seconds
• All play
• 5 * (No. of teams not getting it)

1.
• While Y is used to indicate being exhausted or fatigued, X is used as
an intensifier as used in a few other phrases(like X certain, X
center).
• The word XY has other possible meanings-
• In clockmakers lingo it refers to the X stroke in a clock.
• It is also American slang referring to a worthless idler and one who
sponges off his friends or is a loafer. (In Australia, it may refer to a
man down on his luck). Soldiers are said to have used XY to refer to
people who did not carry their own weight.
• Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Y Generation" in 1948 to
characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth
movement in New York. The Y movement was a precursor to the
hippie counterculture. However, Y had a different meaning here.

2.
• The term 'XY' refers to an action which cuts
through complexity and provides an immediate
solution to a problem. The allusion is to a
miraculous fix, otherwise portrayed as 'waving a
magic wand'. This figurative use derives from the
use of actual XYs and the widespread folk belief
that they were the only way of killing werewolves
or other supernatural beings. The most famous
literary reference to this term dates back to the
1933 cowboy series "Lone Ranger', initially a
radio series and later a highly popular TV show, in
which the protagonist used XYs.

3.
• The origin of this term is attributed to ________ Hoag, a pimp and a
confidence man operating out of New York City. Earlier, what he
would do to relieve customers of money was basically
pickpocketing. It involved his wife Melinda taking their pocketbook
and handing it to either Hoag or French Jack(an accomplice). He
had 2 cops outside for protection who shared in on the loot. When
he ran into financial difficulties, he tried to not involve the cops in
sharing the loot. He carried a con called the "Sliding panel game"
which involved a sliding door to the room so he could enter the
room without the "customer" realising and steal all the valuables
from his coat. Eventually, the cops found out that they were being
excluded and arrested him. The adjective was probably added by
the police because of the fact that he was a resourceful thief who
found a clever way to avoid paying graft.
• In modern usage the term refers to an arrogant person or one who
makes conceited or sardonic comments.

4.
• This word comes from an Anglo-French
adverbial phrase which means "passionately,
with strong love or desire," or old French for
"for love's sake". Originally a term for Christ
(by women) or the Virgin Mary (by men), it
came to mean "darling, sweetheart" in the
mid 14th century and "mistress, concubine,
clandestine lover" in the later part of the 14th
century which is used till date in the same
context.

5.
• In English law, the control of unruly citizens had usually been the
responsibility of local magistrates. Any group of twelve or more that
the authorities didn't like the look of, could be deemed a '-------------
-- and tumultuous assembly', and arrested if they didn't disperse
within an hour of the -------------- being read to them by a
magistrate. This was the prevailing law at the time in England , as
the government was fearful of Jacobite mobs who threatened to
rise up and overthrow the Hanoverian George I. The fear was well-
founded, as supporters of the deposed Stuarts did actually invade in
1715 and again in 1745. The '----------' was passed by the British
government in 1714 and came into force in 1715.
• However, the first record of the figurative use of the phrase is in
William Bradford's Letters, December 1819: "She has just run out
to X in the Nursery." Today, the phrase is typically used to
reprimand rowdy characters and warn them to stop behaving badly.
• What is the “good” phrase?

6.
• This term is used in the world of
entertainment. The etymology is unknown.
While some people believe that the number in
the term is the actual duration in minutes,
others believe that the time is equivalent to
the time taken to smoke a cigarette.
• It refers to a temporary break or respite.

7.
• In the 1580s, the Greeks introduced a method of
banishment in Athens, by which the citizens gathered
and each wrote on a potsherd or tile the name of a
man they deemed dangerous to the liberties of the
people, and a man whose name turned up often
enough was sent away.
• A word derives from this method of banishment
(derived from an ancient Greek word which means clay
pot).
• Another interesting thing that was said to be done is
that the number of votes cast was inscribed in oyster
shells.

8.
• The term, typically used as a simile, first appeared in
Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe’s play,
The Massacre at Paris (c. 1590s), as a veiled reference to
Edwyn Gareth, who was actually Welsh. However, he used
_______ because at that time, the English was competing
with them, among others for land and spices.(one among
many terms coined by the English to insult the _______).
• It is a term for a person who issues frank, harsh, and severe
comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or
admonish someone. Thus, a X is a person who is rather the
reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular.
• Id X

9.
• The phrase first appeared in Romeo and Juliet in 1600.
The meaning of the phrase is that the content is more
important than what its called.
• Most local tour guides use a story behind the origin of
this phrase. They say Shakespeare coined it as a joke at
the expense of the ______ Theatre, which was a rival
to the Globe Theatre, reputed to have had less than
effective sanitary arrangements. The story goes that
this was a coy joke about the smell (which was not
characteristic of a ______).
• What is the phrase?

A rose by any other name would smell
as sweet

10.
• The phrase X is American. It is not known what exactly
_____(part of X)is. The earliest citation of the word is some
sort of a hut or rustic dwelling which was in Walt
Whitman's Specimen Days(1862).Mark Twain used X to
refer it to a form of a vehicle in “Roughing It”. The 'vehicle'
usage does suggest a possible link with the name for a form
of early UK sightseeing bus, i.e. charabanc. Like many other
American phrases, it had a word which indicated
completeness even though it was added to most other
phrases just to make it catchy. In 1872,the first usage of the
term X as we know it(referring to a thing) was done by the
Sedalia Daily Democrat which printed a piece which had a
line “Well, the Democracy can flax X, and we hope to see
our party united.”

11.
• A X is a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, especially one who
is penniless. The term originated in the Western—
probably Northwestern—United States during the last decade of the 19th
century. Unlike "tramps", who work only when they are forced to, and
"bums", who do not work at all, Xs are workers who wander. The bindle,
which involves a stick with a cloth or blanket tied over one end to hold
items carried over one's shoulder is stereotypically associated with Xs.
• The origin of the term is unknown though the following were suggested
• A X who was a farmhand usually carried his own _____(a gardening tool)
• A greeting to call a young man.
• A railroad greeting which may today sound like calling one's young male
lover.
• Syllabic abbreviation of a term which meant "oriented towards home".

12.
• In the 17th century, French women were obliged to corset, bunch
and pinch their figures into a fashionably correct profile. However,
when they relaxed at home, they wore a sack-like garment called X
which was a gown constructed of upto 20 yards made of delicate
silk, damask or Indian cotton. Relatively shapeless and lacking
ruffles, stays, bodices or braids, the X provided comfort for a body
that would otherwise be squeezed to unnatural configurations.
• This laxness is implied in the etymology of X because they used to
ignore or _______ the corset and the rest of their outdoor dress in
favour of the gown.
• It was only after WW 2 that it began to be primarily sensual or even
erotic. The modern X is usually transparent and has trimmings,
bows and lace exemplified by a photo of Rita Hayworth on Life in
1941.

Anagrams
• 60 seconds
• All play

1.
• I am a right death case

2.
• By aim - to flatten land

3.
• Charlatan kid - I fake, I cheat?

4.
• I fit her long-term plan

6.
• Little men, large honour

8.
• Real maths test for me!

9.
• Cartel boss: he'd grab a profit from bulk
cocaine

The Colombian drugs trafficker Pablo
Escobar

12.
• Curious help of hen stock

Round 3-CLUE-ING
• 6 words will be given-1 for each team
• +3 for establishing synonym
• Standard clue-ing rules apply
• Any violation of the rules will result in the
points for that word being null and void
• All guesses must be written
• +20/+15/+10 for the team clue-ing
• +10/+7.5/+5 for other teams

Round 4-ITS COMPLICATED
• 6 quotes from famous movies given in an
unnecessary, complicated fashion.
• 45 seconds
• All play
• Shots for getting the movie

1.
• A statement which declares that a certain
someone has perpetually survived on the
beningnity of a collective class of people
characterized by the fact that the certain
someone has no clue about the identity the of
that collective class.

I have always depended on the
kindness of strangers

2.
• A queer preference to consume a
heterogeneous mixture of alcoholic and non-
alcoholic ingredients which have been
blended by moving them back and forth
rather than setting them into circular motion.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

3.
• The sensation of intimacy caused by a
particular predilection towards an explosive
especially during that period of time in a day
where the shadow lies ahead.

I love the smell of napalm in the
morning

4.
• A notion that the superlative of the relation
exemplified by man and dog is provided to a
lad by someone connected to the lad during
the lad's inception by a membranous duct.

A boy's best friend is his mother

5.
• An epigram given by mom comparing the
experience of the journey that begins with
birth and culminates with death to that of (an
usually) rectangular container of candy,
resulting in a deeply instilled opinion that the
journey is more probabilistic than
deterministic.

Mama always said life was like a box of
chocolates. You never know what
you're gonna get.

6.
• An emphatic declaration which proclaims that
men of refinement cannot quarrel inside a
certain mathematically constrained space, as
supposedly that space is the battleground.

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

Round 5-ARE YOU GETTING LUCKY
TONIGHT???
• Mixed bag of 12 questions
• Choose a number from 1-12
• 6 questions clock and 6 questions
anticlockwise
• Infy bounce/pounce
• 10/0 on direct and pass
• +10/-10 on pounce
• Madras bounce

The good, the bad and the ugly

7 levels of hell in Dante’s inferno

8 fingers and 2 thumbs on a pair of
hands

• 3 B O W-1 F T M, 1 F T D, 1 F T L B W L D T L

3 bags of wool-one for the master, one
for the dame, one for the little boy
who lives down the lane

• Give joey and anti-joey of FABRICATION

• CONTRANYM
• Small change Massive change

• CONTRANYM
• Definite Not possible

• CONTRANYM
• To stop something to start something

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