Theme quiz

Round 1• Infinite bounce• +10, no negative

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• Russian embassy

2• This is a cover of Space oddity(David Bowie) by Chris Austin Hadfield

who is a retired Canadian astronaut • Special about this ?

• First music video shot in space

3• Frodo• Gimili• Bilbo• X.• X and what ?

• Mortal members of the fellowship who went to the undying lands• samwise gamgee also a ringbearer

4• In 1985, Tipper Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center

(PMRC) to to increase parental and consumer awareness of music that contained explicit content and X was first introduced by the Y in 1985 .• Allegedly Lady May's "May Day“ was the first album to have this.

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• Offered the role of aaragon at one time

7• From about 1740s deerskin was used as a unit of trade among

American Indians and Europeans• So deerskin and currency was used interchangeably • This lead to the coining of what ?

• Dollar being called a buck

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• The Return of the King holds the record for highest movie body count, tallying in at 836

9• Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis is the county clerk of Rowan County,

Kentucky. In 2015, Davis gained international attention for something.• She said she was acting "under God's authority” was subsequently

jailed for contempt of court, then released.

• defying a federal court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses

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• The Standin' on the Corner Foundation was formed to create a renaissance of Winslow,Arizona. Determined to build on tourism, the Foundation took advantage of the town being mentioned in the song "Take It Easy" by the Eagles

Round 2• Infinite ponce and bounce• +20,-10

11• X is a 1999 fantasy book by author Y. It is an alternative account of, and

an informal sequel to, the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.• The novel is based on the premise that the Tolkien account is a "history

written by the victors.In his version of the story, Mordor is described as a peaceful country on the verge of an industrial revolution, that is a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude has been described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the elves.• X and where was this published.

• X- The Last Ringbearer• And obviously Russia

12• The X incident occurred during a Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason game played between

the Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins.• In the eighth inning of Game 6 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS), with Chicago

ahead 3–0 and holding a 3 games to 2 lead in the best of seven series, several spectators attempted to catch a foul ball off the bat of Florida second baseman Luis Castillo. One of the fans – X – reached for the ball, deflecting it and disrupting a potential catch by Cubs outfielder Moisés Alou. If Alou had caught the ball, it would have been the second out in the inning, and the Cubs would have been just four outs away from winning their first National League pennant since 1945.

• X is a superhero in The Simpsons universe and has appeared in 2 episodes and 6 comic books• Do the X is a single from The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

• X- bartman

13• On Y’s maps, X is located at about the same position as England is on

modern European maps and has been cited as an example of Merry England ideology. Throughout the narrative, Y also implies numerous points of similarity between the two, such as weather, agriculture and dialect.• In particular, the central part of the X corresponds to the West

Midlands region of England where Y located his "home" in particular• To see X you’d have to go to Matamata.• X? Y?

• X- The Shire• Y- J. R. R. Tolkien

4• X, was stolen on 20th March 1966 in England but recovered well

before it was needed in July• It was stolen again in 1983 in Brazil where it had been since 1970 and

was never recovered.• A replacement made by Silvio Gazzaniga has been used since 1974.• X ?

• Jules Rimet Trophy (The football worldcup trophy)

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• The unusable rubble from ww2 was deposited on artificial hills called Schuttberg

6• Xis an annual gathering that takes place at Black Rock City—a temporary

community erected in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. The event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by 10 main principles, including "radical inclusion" and community cooperation, "radical self-expression", "radical self-reliance", gifting and decommodification, and leaving no trace. First held in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and a group of friends, it has since been held annually, spanning from the last Sunday in August to the first Monday in September.• The event takes its name from its culmination, Y that traditionally occurs on the

Saturday evening of the event.• X? Y?

• X- Burning Man• Y- the symbollic, ritual burning of a large wooden effigy ("the Man")

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• Cradle of Filth came up with this shirt in 1993 when they were about to go on tour.• It has since caused arrests of people for wearing it in public in

England, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Netherlands etc.• The quote ?

8• X are a race of beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth

who closely resemble Y. Their name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for giant.• X is a person who smokes weed. The term is named after the fictional

characters from The Lord of the Rings after someone on Reddit noticed their slow and mellow personalities, similar to that of a stoned person. Users of /r/Y on reddit are called X.

• X Ent• Y trees

10• As a definite geographic location within the United States, “X" is

usually defined as the eleven Southern states that seceded in late 1860 and early 1861 to form the new confederation named the Confederate States of America. They are (in order of secession): South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.• Recently the X flag came into controversy which was actually the

Battle flag of West Virginia and the Second Confederate Navy Jack.

• Dixie

11• Völuspá is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells

the story of the creation of the world and its coming end, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology.• How is it relevant to the theme ?

• The names Durin, Dwalin, Nain, Dain, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Nori, Thrain, Thorin, Thror, Fili, Kili, Fundin, Gloin, Dori, Nori and Ori came from there! The name Gandalf even is in there

14• Y launched the X brand in 1924 as a woman's cigarette, based on the

slogan "Mild As May". The name was taken from a street in London where PM's British factory was located. In the 1920s, advertising for the cigarette was primarily based around how ladylike the filter cigarette was, in an attempt to appeal to the mass market.To this end, the filter had a printed red band around it to hide lipstick stains.

• X Phillip Morris• Y Marlboro

15• X is a subscription-based music streaming service that combines

lossless audio and high definition music videos with curated editorial. X claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market.• It acquired by Project Panther Ltd., which is owned by Y in 2015 and

became the first artist-owned streaming service.• It has been criticized for its high price and because the average

listener doesn’t have headphones to distinguish the difference between ordinary and high fidelity audio.

• X- Tidal• Y- Jay Z

18• In 1955 X bought a Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed Y.• X was killed in an accident in Y.• the engine and drivetrain from the car were sold to two people. While racing each other one lost

control and hit a tree, killing him instantly and the other was seriously injured when his car suddenly locked up and rolled over while going into a turn

• 2 tires untouched from the original accident were sold and not long after, both blew out simultaneously causing the new owner’s car to run off the road.

• While trying to steal some parts One of the thieves arms was torn open trying to steal the steering wheel while the other was injured trying to remove the bloodstained tartan seat.

• Y was put in a highway safety exhibit. Itunsuccessful as the garage that housed the car caught fire and burned to the ground.

• Y was being transported when the truck carrying the car lost control which caused the driver to fall out and somehow get crushed by the car after it fell off the back.

• Y has now gone missing.• X ? Y?

• y little bastard• x james dean

36• X is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary

Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974. It departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation.• The importance of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as

an influence on X is controversial. The presence in the game of halflings, elves, half-elves, dwarves, orcs, rangers, and the like, draw comparisons to these works. The resemblance was even closer before the threat of copyright action from Tolkien Enterprises prompted the name changes of hobbit to 'halfling', ent to 'treant', and balrog to 'balor‘.• X ?

• Dungeons & Dragons

19• He’s dead Jim is a famous catch phrase and snowclone used in Star

Trek. It is mostly used by Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek: The Original Series, typically after using his medical tricorder to confirm and report the death to Captain Kirk.• Where else would you see this message ?

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• Also Brett Beattie had one• ID ?

Fellowship had the number 9 tattooed in elvishPeter Jackson 10

22• X is a carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by Z. The

original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1958. The rights to this formula were obtained by the Tip Corporation of Marion, Virginia. William H. "Bill" Jones of the Tip corporation further refined the formula, launching that version of X in 1961. On August 27, 1964, the X brand and production rights were acquired from Tip by the Z company• “X “was originally Southern and/or Scots/Irish slang for moonshine

(i.e., homemade whiskey),

Mountain dewPepsico

23Where is this ?the blanked things ?

• Names of mountains on Titan (Saturn)• Mount Doom• Erebor• Misty mountain

25• X (Spanish: '¡No pasarán!') is a slogan used to express determination

to defend a position against an enemy.• It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in the First

World War by French General Robert Nivelle and also appeared on propaganda posters.• It was also used during the Spanish Civil War

• A very famous quote Y in the book/movie is an allusion this slogan.

• They shall not pass" (French: 'On ne passe pas‘)

26• X is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem X from Old English to

modern English language. Translated by Y from 1920 to 1926, it was edited and published posthumously in May 2014.• In the poem, X, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the aid of Hroðgar,

the king of the Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After X slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, X goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After fifty years have passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland.• The author called X as the "most valued sources" for one of his most acclaimed

works Z.

• X Beowulf• Y J. R. R. Tolkien• Z The Hobbit

28• Bibendum, commonly referred to as the X, is the symbol of Y which is

a tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France.• Y is also notable for its Red and Green travel guides ( red for hotels

and resturants and green for tourism)

• Michelin• Michelin man

29• Japan – Shinji Kagawa• France – Antoine Griezmann• Australia- Steph Catley, Tim Cahill• Mexico – Marco Fabian• Brazil- Oscar• USA – Alex Morgan• Italy- Mauro Icardi• Turkey – Arda Turan• United Kingdom – X ?

30• Y was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to the

character X from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The term was used frequently in graffiti, buttons, bumper-stickers, T-shirts, and other materials. It was commonly associated with the hippie movement.• The term may lead to the mistaken belief that X's journey into the West at the

end of Tolkien's novel meant that he would live forever which is not true• Another interpretation is that the phrase is referring to the drama of the Third

Age itself and the days of The War of The Ring. The only hope of the free peoples of Middle-earth lay with X, a slim hope; X's whereabouts and fate were unknown—even on the dawn of battle. To say that Y is to trust that all is not lost, and that a small ray of hope may drive out the forces of Shadow threatening to engulf Middle-earth

• X Frodo• Y Frodo lives

30• X is a cultural expression and code of honor that places legitimate

importance on a deep-rooted family sense of a code of silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the legal actions of others. It originated and remains common in Southern Italy.• A more popular and more simplified definition of X is: "Whoever

appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without police protection is both. It is dastardly and contemptible in a wounded man to betray the name of his assailant, because if he recovers, he must naturally expect to take vengeance himself

• Omerta

32• The Tale of X and Y is the story of the love and adventures of the

mortal Man X and the immortal Elf-maiden Y, as told in several works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It takes place during the First Age of Middle-earth.• The story and the characters reflect the love of Tolkien and his wife

Edith. • On Tolkien's grave, J. R. R. Tolkien is referred to as X and Edith is

referred to as Y.

• Beren and Lúthien

34• In August 2015 group of architects launched a crowdfunding campaign in the

hopes of raising almost £2 billion in order to build a lifesize replica of Lord of the Rings city Minas Tirith in the south of England. It was called Realise Minas Tirith.• A rival movement was launched calling for £ 1bn , called X.• The rewards for donation were that For £10,000 you can be an Orc Commander

("lots of Orcses to shout at and tell what to do [no training required – orcs are very good at taking direction]"). For £100,000 you can enjoy a ride on a Nazgul Fellbeast ("token to be redeemed at Witch King's command tent").• X ? And What did they want to do

• Destroy Minas Tirith• Destroy Minas Tirith• They said s loyal servants of the Dark Lord, we cannot allow this to happen.

Join me in gnashing your teeth and stamping your feet. Your gold will buy many pointy and shiny things which we can stick the humans with.• Let us tear the city brick from brick.

• The Time of Man has ended.

• The Time of the Orc has begun!

35• X is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen. Formed in 1992 by

Infernus ,the band is named after the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.• X are known for their blatantly satanic-themed and anti-religious

lyrics.The band's founder and guitarist Infernus is openly a theistic satanist and considers himself "Satan's minister on Earth“.• In an interview for the 2005 heavy metal documentary Metal: A

Headbanger's Journey, Gaahl(of X) was asked what inspired X's music and his reply was simply "Satan". When asked what he believes Satan represents, he said "Freedom“.

• X- Gorgoroth