I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating about a president's private medical condition without clearer context. Perhaps we could discuss a different topic

KQA Collegiate Solo
Championships
PU Finals

Written round
• Six ESPNCricinfo cartoons.
• 10 points per slide
• 15-point bonus for getting all six.

Clockwise Round
• 10 questions clockwise on Infinite Pounce.
• +10, 0 on the bounce
• Pounce for +15, -5
• No part points on the pounce.

ID the show. Also, which rock band was making a guest appearance that week?

The Simpsons, with The Who making a cameo.

The X is a type of motorcycle that has been modified for speed and handling
rather than comfort. Its bodywork typically mimicked the style of contemporary
Grand Prix roadracers featuring an elongated fuel tank, often with dents to allow
the riders knees to grip the tank, low slung racing handlebars, and a single
seat, while its engines were tuned for maximum speed.

The term X originally arose as an insult from motorcycle enthusiasts towards
riders who they thought were playing at being a serious enthusiasts but merely
parked outside _____, and their motorcycles weren’t used for racing, but to
transport themselves from one ____ to another.

The term __________ _ was coined by the photographer
Robert Capa in the early 1950s, using it later as a title for a
photo-essay about young men and women growing up
immediately after WWII.

Describing his intention, Capa said 'We named this
unknown generation, __________ _, and even in our first
enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger
than our talents and pockets could cope with'.

The term was popularized by a 1991 novel, but had also
earlier been used by a punk band as its name in the
70s, which was taken from the title of a 1965 sociology
book.

An X bar/restaurant is a themed establishment aesthetically defined by their
décor based upon a romanticized conception of primitive tropical cultures, most
commonly Polynesian – it often includes masks and carvings, grasscloth, tapa
cloth and tropical fabrics, torches, bamboo, plants, lava stone, and other South
Pacific-themed decorations.

Names include ‘Tonga Room’, ‘Don The Beachcomber’ (the first to introduce this
theme in 1933) and ‘Trader Vic’s’.

The bars take their name (i.e., X) from the large wood and stone carvings of
humanoid forms found in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific
Ocean.

X is a season observed in many
Western Christian churches as a
time of waiting and preparation
for the celebration of the Nativity
of Jesus at Christmas, the term
being an anglicized version of the
Latin word for “coming”.

An X calendar is used to
count/celebrate the days in
anticipation of Christmas, which
often overlap with the season X,
though most X calendars begin on
December 1, regardless of when X
begins.

In the sort of gesture that, if made in India, would cause all
of Allahabad to fall over itself in filing PILs in the High
Court, the final game of X’s career was on April 18, 1999, at
Madison Square Garden.

The national anthems in that game were adjusted to
accommodate his departure – in place of ‘O Canada, we
stand on guard for thee’, Bryan Adams ad-libbed, “We’re
going to miss you, X”, and the Star-Spangled Banner was
altered to include the words “in the land of X”.

Playing the Canadian anthem itself was an anomaly, given
that neither team playing was based there.

Who was retiring?

Katharine E. Hamnett is an English fashion
designer best known for her oversized t-shirts
with large block letter slogans that were
launched in 1983.

These t-shirts were adopted by many pop
bands, with its appearance in the music video
of a 1984 song (the slogan was ‘Choose Life’)
being one of the most famous, causing an
explosion in its popularity.

In 1984, Paul Morley of ZTT Records designed
a series of similar t-shirts that said _______
___ to promote one of their bands (acronymed
to FGTH). Morley stated that these designs
were consciously based on Hamnett's t-shirts -
the official designs were particularly
successful, and spawned many imitations of
their own too.

Name the 1984 song, and the band/the slogan
on the Morley t-shirt.

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Frankie
Say…/Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Japanese Metro Rail ‘pushers’ – they organize
and push people into trains during rush hour
to optimize capacity.

In 2008, the Obama campaign unveiled a program called
Houdini that would ‘magically’ make the names of those
who had already voted disappear from the Get Out The
Vote lists, allowing campaigners to then target those who
hadn’t yet voted on Election day.

It was tested, but on E day it was a mess, though they had
a backup in place. And, of course, Obama still won.

In 2012, the name of the program that replaced Houdini,
and used for similar purposes, was Gordon.

Why was it called Gordon?

It was meant to best Houdini – J. Gordon
Whitehead is the name of the student who
punched Houdini repeatedly in the
stomach, causing his death.

Shorthanded to where bad people went upon
dying, this concept appears in both Egyptian and
Christian religion. Related is the Jewish Gehenna
which, among other things, was a valley near
Jerusalem where trash was burned.

The Book of Revelation has five verses that
mention it, all of which generally talk about
devils/beasts/cowardly/faithless/detestable
people being cast alive into a ____ __ ____ with
the goal of eternal torment. Fill in the blanks.

Skagboys is a 2012 novel by X. It is a prequel to his
1993 Booker-longlisted novel Y, and its 2002 sequel
Porno.

When X described the novel, he said, “I think I’m going
to call it Skag Boys: “skag” is my favourite word for
heroin (the drug of choice in the series). It’s set before
they’re into heroin and investigates how the main
characters become junkies, the family dynamics, the
anxieties of young men. A lot of the fringe characters
become more prominent.”

Long Visual Connect
• 11 slides
• Points: 21-x, where x is the slide number at
which point you crack the theme
• -5 for a wrong guess
• Maximiser of +2 per slide after the theme is
announced

News Corporation/Rupert Murdoch

• New York Post
• The Australian
• FX Networks
• The Sun
• HarperCollins
• The Sunday Times
• National Geographic Channel
• The Wall Street Journal
• Fox News
• Star TV
• 20th Century Fox

Anticlockwise Round
• 10 questions clockwise on Infinite Pounce.
• +10, 0 on the bounce
• Pounce for +15, -5
• No part points on the pounce.

• JazzAudio
• This is the most famous song composed by an
American jazz musician who died in
December 2012. Name him, and the song.

• Dave Brubeck
• Take Five

This is Italian pharmacist and freedom fighter
Felice _______, who founded many brands of
X, such as “Nocera Umbra”. He is most
famous, however, for the brand of X that
bears his name. This brand _______ has
become synonymous, at least in india, with
the product X. ID X and fill in the blanks.

When X visited the city _________, a hand grenade
was thrown at his car – the driver saw it and
accelerated, causing it to explode under the wheel of
the next car, seriously wounding two of its occupants.

X asked about the injured, and when told they were in
the hospital, he insisted on being taken to see them. A
member of his staff suggested this might be
dangerous, but the safety officer replied, “Do you think
Sarajevo is full of assassins?”

Then… stuff happened. Who is X?

Shown here is an ______ ___ in Google Maps. An ______ ___ is an intentional hidden
message, inside joke, or feature in a piece of media, especially a computer program. They are
named after the traditional candies eaten during a Christian religious holiday. On the day, these
______ ____ are traditionally hidden around the house for children to find. Fill in the blanks.

• In a recent biopic of X, the screenwriter Tony
Kushner did not want the star to recite the Y,
the speech that X is perhaps most famous for,
since he wanted to differentiate the movie
from the many other depictions of X in
popular culture. Instead, Kushner had two
actors, playing soldiers, recite the Y to the star
as he looked on smiling. Name X and Y.

• Abraham Lincoln
• The Gettysberg Address

• TVVid
• ID the television show, and the man in the
suit.

• Whose Line Is It Anyway
• Stephen Colbert

• Prior to Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s
Stone gave the title to JK Rowling, who was
Britain’s best-selling author? He is still the
second most-read writer there (and seventh
most-read writer in America) today.

Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series.

On the right is Prince Edward, grandson of King George V and first cousin to Queen Elizabeth II.
As her cousin, he carries out various royal duties on behalf of the queen. What is his most
famous duty?

Presenting the trophies to the Wimbledon champion and runner-up every year.

• Expatriate Indian populations in the UK, the
West Indies and so on brought little in the way
of luggage with them when they travelled
from India. So, in their new homes, they
improvised this piece of kitchen equipment.
They used things like metal water cans and oil
drums, or simply dug a long narrow hole in
the ground. What were they trying to
replicate?

Differential scoring
• Five questions
• +15 if 1 or 2 get it right
• +10 if 3, 4 or 5 get it right
• +5 if 6, 7 or 8 get it right
• -5 for wrong guesses.

1. Most famously George W. Bush did it, but
he’s the fourth U.S. President to have done so
– the other three being John Quincy Adams in
1824 (against Andrew Jackson); Rutherford B.
Hayes in 1876 (against Samuel Tilden); and
Benjamin Harrison in 1888 (against Grover
Cleveland).

What?

Elected President without winning the popular
vote.

2. This is an X, a traditional crockery
casserole dish found in France that’s
famed for its pot-belly shape.

According to the French culinary
reference work Le Répertoire de la
Cuisine, an X “Firstly, is a stock pot.
Secondly, a French pot with lid
similar to a casserole with two
finger-grips on each side.”

While the X as a cooking dish isn’t
all that famous, it lends its name to
an extremely (in)famous brand that
people either love or hate – an X
(the pot) also appears on the label
of the product.

3. When The Artist won the Best Picture Oscar in 2011, it was the
first (mainly) silent film to win since 1927's Wings and Sunrise won
at the 1st ever Academy Awards in 1929. Two other achievements
were that it was the first film in X to win since 1955's Marty, and
the first Y film to win since 1993's Schindler's List.

X – 4:3 Aspect ratio.
Y – B&W.

The Times Square New Year’s ball

5. The X frogs are any of the four species of genus
Dyscophus, and are native to Madagascar. The
common name comes its colour and general
appearance. What is its common name?

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