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Infinite Bounce

ID X

In the 2012 Armenian general election, a section of the youth was frustrated with the candidates.

Many of them started using __X__'s name as an almighty character; the sort of leader they needed in their country. During election campaigns __X__'s photos often appeared alongside the real candidates.

As the Electoral Code of Armenia does not envisage “against all” option on the ballot, young voters added __X__'s name by hand and voted for him.

Answer

● Chuck Norris

Famous for?

Answer

● Maratha Mandir – DDLJ still running

Plan for?

Answer

● The apartments in Friends

How is this place connected to the world of sports?

Answer

● This is Trent Bridge

Which summit?

● The first 'summit' meeting was held in Belgrade in 1961, and India has hosted it too, in 1983. The previous one was in Sharm El Shaikh, Egypt.

● Usually held three years apart, the latest edition was held in Tehran in August 2012. (Fittingly, the US has complained about the UN Secretary General's visit to the summit and thus Iran.)

● The summits have lost a lot of popularity in India, although they were really popular when they started off

Answer

● The Non Aligned Movement summit

● __X__ is a British comic strip which started on 17th March 1951. It featured a boy __A__ and his dog __B__

● In a staggering coincidence, another comic strip named __X__ debuted on 12th March 1951 in the US. Even it was about a boy named __A__ and his dog

● Neither artist knew about the other development across the ocean when they launched their own strip, and hence no lawsuit was filed

● To avoid confusion, the US version is marketed in UK under the name __A__ and the UK version gets the name __A__ and __B__ outside UK

Answer

● Dennis the Menace,● A – Dennis, B - Gnasher

ID the subject – painting is named 'particles whirling round in space'

Answer

● Peter Higgs

● On 30 December 1995, in a match against Hibernian F.C, Paul Gascoigne of Rangers was booked by the referee for a certain action.

● This action was much to the amusement of the 44,692 fans form both clubs in the stadium

● On being questioned later, the referee Dougie Smith replied “He might be able to take the fucking piss out of you, but he’s not taking the fucking piss out of me”

● What was the offending action?

Answer

The referee had dropped the card, Gascoigne picked it up and booked him

ID the actor on the right

Answer

● Irvine Welsh

Ad for what?

Answer

● United Colors of Benetton

Connect these Victorian gentlemen to modern day entertainment (not exhaustive)

Answer

● League of extraordinary gentlemen

● Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice. Instead, Minos kept it for himself; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife lust for the bull with the help of __A__. She made the archetypal architect __C__ make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it to mate with the bull. This led to the birth of __B__

● To contain the raging __B__, Minos had __C__ construct a gigantic labyrinth where __B__ was trapped.

● As a sacrifice to Minos, the Athenians had to send seven young men and maidens to __B__ every seven years. One such sacrifice was Theseus, who volunteered to kill __B__

● __D__, daughter of Minos, was in charge of the labyrinth and these sacrifices. However, she fell in love with Theseus and offered him a __E__ to find his way out.

● The method of solving a logic puzzle or maze by exhaustive application of logic to all possible routes is known as __D__'s __E__

Answer

● A- Aphrodite

● B- Minotaur

● C- Daedalus

● D- Ariadne

● E- ball of thread

● Method – Ariadne's thread

Sports Speak

Connect the quotes to the sports-persons.

Quotes #1

1. 1932, that’s not a time, it sounds like my dad’s birthday

2. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up

3. In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?

4. Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Quotes #2

5. Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way

6. Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win

7. Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

8. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Quotes #3

9. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

10.An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

11.I spent 90 percent of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered

12.I'm a big believer that the coach is something you travel in to get to and from the game

Connect

X, who had migrated from Madras, and begun working as a coolie at the Bombay port, went on to become a rich and immensely influential man.

In the 70s, X ruled the Mumbai underworld, and made a fortune in gold smuggling. It was license-permit Raj era, and the smuggling of imported goods brought him immense riches and as a result tremendous clout. However, he stayed away from the dirty business - smuggling of weapons or narcotics.

After his arrest during the emergency, he started using the prefix Y, which refers to those who have been on a pilgrimage

Why was the match abandoned?

● Trial Judge: The court has acquitted them because the Delhi police failed to sustain the grounds on which they had built up their case. The police failed to recover the weapon which was used to fire at __X__ as well as prove their theory that the two cartridges, emptied shells of which were recovered from the spot, were fired from one weapon

● High Court: With very great respect to the learned judge [Bhayana], we point out that this manner of testing the credibility of the witness is hardly a rule of appreciation of evidence. ... Obviously, this reflects total lack of application of mind and suggests a hasty approach towards securing a particular end, namely the acquittal

● Supreme Court: The evidence regarding the actual incident, the testimonies of witnesses, the evidence connecting the vehicles and cartridges to the accused — __Y__, as well as his conduct after the incident prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The High Court has analysed all the evidence and arrived at the correct conclusion

Connect

X is a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2004

The delay in __X__'s death sentence has raised several eyebrows, despite muffled hints that he is being used by the government. Recently the delay in __Y__'s sentence has been compared to that of __X__

On 7th September 2011, a high intensity bomb blast outside Delhi high court killed 11 people and left 76 others injured. In an e-mail sent to a media house Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic fundamentalist organization, owned responsibility for the attack and claimed the blast was carried out in retaliation to Parliament attack convict __X__'s death sentence.

Answers

● Haji Mastan

● Indira Gandhi was assassinated

Goes into the connect – Assassins of Indira Gandhi – Beant and Satwant Singh

● Manu Sharma, of Jessica Lal fame

● Harshad Mehta

● Afzal Guru

Connect

Connect

● They were all defended by Ram Jethmalani

The Olympics

Gold

● After winning 6 consecutive golds in field hockey, India finally lost the medal in 1960. Who won the gold?

Answer

● Pakistan

London 1908: Significance?

Answer

● Length of the marathon was decided. The royal family wanted to witness the start of the race, so the race was from the Windsor castle to the Olympic Stadium

More 1908 – What just happened?

Answer

● 'This flag dips to no earthly king'

Name the move

Answer

● Fosbury Flop, which has become standard in high jumps these days

● The 1980 games were boycotted by twenty four countries, and fifteen of the participating countries marched under the Olympic flag.

● What were they protesting against?

Answer

● Russian occupation of Afghanistan

Identify

● This petite 17 year old performed one of the most stunning moves in gymnastics history, which has subsequently been banned after being considered too dangerous.

● The judges received a lot of flak from the audience who couldn't believe that she was awarded just a 9.8

Answer

● Olga Korbut, and the Korbut flip

Infinite Bounce

Connect

Answer

Sasha Grey

Since 1967, X, the world's smallest micro-nation, has been occupied by the former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates; his associates and family claim that it is an independent sovereign state.

In January 2007, Y attempted to buy X after harsher copyright measures in Sweden forced them to look for a base of operations elsewhere.

Answer

● Principality of Sealand, and The Pirate Bay

What's being talked about?

Before becoming a living ___ platter, the person (usually a woman) is trained to lie down for hours without moving. She or he must also be able to withstand the prolonged exposure to the cold food. Before service, the individual is supposed to have taken a bath using a special fragrance-free soap and then finished off with a splash of cold water to cool the body down somewhat for the ___. In some parts of the world, in order to comply with sanitation laws, there must be a layer of plastic or other material between the ___ and the body of the woman or man.

Answer

Body Sushi

ID the male character

Answer

The Joker

What?

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the growing English sea port of __X__ became fabulously wealthy and most of that wealth was earned by city businessmen and sea captains who took cheap trade goods to the west coast of Africa and exchanged them for men, women and children whom they then shipped off to the West Indies

James __Y__ was one of the leading protagonists in the battle against the abolition of slavery.

in 2006 a well-meaning city councillor proposed that all the streets named after slave traders should be re-named.

However, it could not be carried out because a road named after James __Y__ had gained worldwide fame for a completely unrelated reason.

Answer

● James Penny, and Penny Lane

Bridge between Hong Kong and China. Idea behind shape?

Answer

● HK drives on the left, China on the right. The bridge flips the traffic

● Twin brothers Reginald and Ronald Kray were the foremost perpetrators of organized crime in London's East End during the 50's and the 60's

● "They were the best years of our lives. They called them the swinging sixties. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were rulers of pop music, Carnaby Street ruled the fashion world... and me and my brother ruled London. We were fucking untouchable..." – Ronnie Kray

● What lasting impression did the Kray brothers leave on the world of literature?

Answer

● He who must not be named. People were scared to name the Kray brothers because the retribution was so brutal.

● The word __A__ comes from the Persian tale “The three princes of __B__”

● __B__ was an old name for __C__, the name possibly originates from the Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa

● The heroes in the fairy tale were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of

Answer

● A- Serendipity● B- Serendip● C- Sri Lanka

Who?

● ''To be honest, X has provided as much marketing impetus to the Big Bash League, probably only behind Shane Warne. If he doesn't ever come, he has done more for this game, and Cricket Australia should put a street parade for him already. Maybe some of the people at marketing who are talking about it being a negative should come and have a chat to me and see what we're actually doing and not worry about it.''

● 'We don't in any circumstance want to devalue the competition from a marketing point of view or just as a 'promo' or PR, that won't come into it, but I think if you look at the bigger picture ... to have X, if he's good enough to play a game and he wants to be with us, that's pretty good, isn't it?''

Answer

● Usain Bolt, who is being pursued by Warne led Melbourne Stars

● These two companies went public together at the same time in 1971

● After a decade, the price of the shares of one of the companies was double of that of the other, so one analyst noted "This is proof that stock markets prefer memory over mammary”

Answer

● This practice is mentioned in the 1948 Vogue edition of the Book of Etiquette as something that should never be used in greeting cards. Although there is a misconception that the origins of this were for the purposes of secularism, many writers consider this practice a blasphemy against Christianity; some going to the extent of equating it to a war against Jesus Christ. What common practice are we talking about?

Answer

X-mas instead of Christmas

Formula for what?

Answer

● How to make the perfect martini