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After the wild popularity of yesterday’s rules slide, we decided to include one today

too

I hear Mod...oops QM is God

Also, partial points only when we deem it valid.

Your QMs could be extremely sleep-deprived, so refrain from any sudden loud

outbursts lest you give them a stroke

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There is a buried easter

egg in the video clip

shown. Identify it.

Ice Cube is the rapper’s name playing the chief

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In the Lord of the Rings, Treebeard, also known as Fangorn, was the oldest of the

ents left in Middle-earth, an ancient tree-like being who is a "shepherd of trees".

Tolkien "began to sketch the episode where two of the hobbits encounter

Treebeard, the being who was the ultimate expression of Tolkien's love and

respect for trees. When eventually he came to write this chapter (so he told Nevill

Coghill) he modelled Treebeards' way of speaking, 'Hrum, Hroom,' on the

booming voice of ______."

C. S. Lewis

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The Thinker is a very famous sculpture by Auguste Rodin that was originally to be

called The Poet. It was commissioned to be a doorway surround for his other

piece of work, The Gates of Hell, before Rodin also made it an independent art

work for other places. Its high stature in the artwork for The Gates of Hell and its

central placement has led many critics to speculate that this is a certain poet

pondering his great poem surrounded by many of his characters.

Dante

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In 1940 X was living in France when the Germans showed up. After spending

nearly a year in internment as an enemy alien, he was released and allowed to

live in Berlin and occupied Paris. While in Berlin, he recorded six radio broadcasts

recounting his experiences as a captive of the Germans. They were meant to be

humorous talks in typical X style, and they contained no pro-German or anti-British

propaganda, but when second-hand information about their production finally

filtered back to England, they went over very badly. Wodehouse reacted to the

criticism by emigrating to the United States, becoming an American citizen, and

never coming back to England for the rest of his life. He still got a knighthood from

Queen Elizabeth II in 1975. He died the same year at the age of 93, saying that

with his knighthood and a waxwork in Madame Tussaud's, he had achieved all of

his life's ambitions.

P. G. Wodehouse

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___ _________ are an English band that is often credited by rock critics and

historians for giving rise to the birth of psychedelic music, and influencing many

future genres like punk rock and progressive rock. They had many chart-toppers

in the 1960s like “For Your Love” and “Heart Full of Soul”. Despite them being very

successful in their own right, we know this band for a different reason from the

world of music.

Name the band.

The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton

have all played with them some time or the other

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X is a school of art that originated in the wake of World War 1. The belief of its

practitioners was that "the war to end all wars" was such a brutal, devastating and

ultimately meaningless conflict that such an ugly world didn't deserve art. So, in

response, the practitioners of X gave the world anti-art.

The famous picture of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee is an example

of X.

The movement died out for a few reasons, the primary of them being that people

started liking the art that was made which defeated the entire purpose.

Dadaism

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DEATH BATTLE! Is a popular YouTube show which pits pop culture’s deadliest

characters against each other. The hosts analyze the fighters' weapons, armor,

and skills to find the winner of each battle.

While they usually pair characters from different universes who have similar

abilities, their season 3 finale paired off characters whose only trait in common is

their tendency to smash through the fourth wall. X is from a sparkly children’s TV

Show that has episodes named ‘Sonic Rainboom’ and ‘The Cutie Mark

Chronicles’ while Y is arguably the funniest, most cynical and insane of their

franchise.

X: Pinkie Pie, Y: Deadpool

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X is a collection of 6 epic poems (and the few incomplete Mutabilitie Cantos)

written by Edmund Spenser as a gift for Queen Elizabeth. The first three books

were published in 1590 and the next 3 in 1596.

Spenser's plan was to write 24 books — the first 12 each starring a knight who

personifies one of the 12 Private Virtues, and the rest starring Prince Arthur, who

personifies the 12 Public Virtues. Unfortunately Edmund Spenser died and the

books never actually show the titular character and Prince Arthur never meets his

true love.

The Faerie Queene

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In the words of the artist himself, "On my guitar I used light-gauge guitar strings,

with a very thin first string, which made it easier to bend the notes, and it was not

uncommon during the most frenetic bits of playing for me to break at least one

string.” His oddity of changing his strings on the stage led to audiences clapping

out this delay, for which the British colloquialism is “to be given the X”. This is how

the artist got his nickname X.

Mention both the artist and his exact nickname

Eric Clapton as Slowhand

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Claude Rains' daughter tells of a time when the two went to see this movie in the

theater years after it was made. It was bitterly cold and his face was completely

covered by a hat and scarf. When he spoke to ask for the tickets, the attendant

immediately recognized his voice and wanted to let them in for free. Rains was

quite upset at this and demanded that he pay full price.

Which movie is this that Claude Rains starred in?

The Invisible Man

Round of

Connects

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What one word can connect the following phrases:

A province in Turkey

A train station in Melbourne, named after one of the city’s founders

A soldier assigned as a personal valet to a commissioned officer

A routing protocol for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks

Haruki Murakami’s Books

Some of John Williams most famous compositions

John Malkovich

Directors of Harry Potter Movies

Batman

List It+2 for each identified character

4 minutes by the timers

Come to the front if you want

Very Back/Wall: Weeping Angel, TARDIS, Black Knight, Weeping Angel

Back Row Groom side: Rocket Raccoon, Groot , The Vision, Ant Man, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Nick Fury, Wolverine

Window Groom side: The Hulk

Window Bride side: Vulpix, Nidoking, Pikachu

Back Row Bride side: Buzz and Woody, Aladdin, Jasmine, Ariel, Prince Eric, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Beast.

Second to last Row Groom side: Loki, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Iron Man, Captain America.

Second to last Row Bride side: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Hamish Watson, James Moriarty, Burton Guster, Shawn

Spencer, The French Taunter.

Third to last row Groom side: Gollum, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gimli, son of Gloin,

Gandalf the Grey, Arwen, Aragorn.

Third to last row Bride side: Daenerys of the House Targaryen, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, The

Night King.

Third Row Groom Side: Storm Trooper, Darth Vader, Data (from season 1 and 2?), Captain Jean Luc Picard, Commander

Spock, Captain James Tiberius Kirk.

Third Row Bride Side: Hermione Jean Granger, Ronald Billius Weasley, Headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian

Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid.

Second Row Groom side: Chewbacca, Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker

Second Row Bride side: The Doctor (4th), Sarah Jane Smith, The Doctor (10th), Rose Tyler, The Doctor (12th)

Front Row Groom side: Victor Sullivan*, Elena Fisher, Nathan Drake, Joel.

Front Row, Bride side: Amelia Pond-Williams, Rory Williams-Pond, Professor River Song/ Melody Pond, Rory Gilmore?

Groomsmen: Spiderman, Harry James Potter, Frodo Baggins

Bridesmaids: Ellie, Belle, Lorelai Gilmore

Officiant: The Doctor (11th)

Long ConnectEach question has an answer

bounce and pounce.

Answer revealed after each

question

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This song that is one of the all-time most famous songs, actually topped charts

only in 2007 for the first time. This was because the band had never released this

song as a single, but in 2007 their catalogue was made available as legal digital

downloads, making it eligible for chart considerations finally. The reason for the

lack of a single release was that the band had not anticipated this song getting

radio air-time because of its longer than usual length.

Stairway to Heaven

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This song X was written before the band was even formed. Y, a band member,

gave a demo of this song to Colin, who joined him and helped in the formation of

the rest of the band. It was based on an earlier song “The Air I Breathe”, written by

Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, because of which Y agreed to share the

credits for X with aforementioned people.

One of the extras in the video for the song is a teenage Kieran Hebden, aka Four

Tet, an artist famous for mixing Y and the band’s songs.

Identify the song X

Creep by Radiohead

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The author of X was inspired to write this novel after witnessing the death of a

woman throwing herself at a train, and coming to know she was the wife of a

wealthy landowner. The character of Levin is often said to be the author himself,

because of the struggles he faces with death, morality, and religion. Like the

protagonist of X, the author too met his demise at a train station due to

tuberculosis in 1910. The likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi count as this

author as one of their major influences

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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This episode of a certain very long running TV show is the highest rated among all

its episodes. It comes from a short story that the writer X had originally written for

the show’s 2006 annual book, titled “What I Did On My Summer Holidays, by Sally

Sparrow”. The antagonists X decided to add to this adaptation were actually

supposed to be for another episode, but the lack of any good ideas made him add

the antagonists here instead. The success of this episode is also more surprising

as the protagonist is rarely featured in this episode.

Name the episode.

Blink, Dr. Who

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This series of nearly 250 paintings are works inspired by the flower garden in the

painter’s house in Giverny. A lot of them derive their distinct visual patterns due to

the failing eyesight of the painter towards this time of his life.

What is this series of paintings called?

Water Lilies by Claude Monet

Artworks hated by their creators

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This is a listing on eBay for a McDonald’s product that was recently for

sale online for outrageous prices. Why are people paying so much for

this product?

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Rick & Morty, Szechuan Sauce

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In X the 'Thaum' is the smallest unit of magic and several students at the Unseen

University are trying to split it to the horror of their elders. They theorise that the

Thaum is made up of Resons and that Resons consist of five different flavours:

up, down, sideways, sex appeal and peppermint.

This humorous analogy to quarks is a characteristic feature of X which is famous

for its particular brand of ridiculous satire.

ID X

Discworld Novels

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Most races in World of

Warcraft have an

associated dance act for

them, that is often inspired

by famous dances or artists

from around the world. The

male of the race Dranei are

no exception to this. Identify

the source inspiration for

their dance.

Tunak Tunak by Daler Mehndi

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A very common term in today’s parlance came to its present usage from the final

sketch of the 25th show of Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, an

argument develops between the waitress, who recites a menu in which nearly

every dish contains X (the term) and Mrs Bun, who does not like X.

The word X is uttered at least 132 times, aided by a group of Vikings who

occasionally sing about X. These connotations of repetition and unwantedness led

to the current usage of the term.

Spam

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Carla Bruni

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This product was introduced in 2001 to critical and commercial acclaim. After a

successful run, the most recognisable form of this product was discontinued in

2014. However, the launch of a certain production just a few months back sent the

demand for this product into overdrive, with a 929% climb in the week of the

launch.

Which product, and which production?

Baby Driver and iPod (Classic)

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“The Motherland Calls” is a massive

statue (nearly twice as tall as The

Statue of Liberty) in the city of

Volgograd. It is the last non-religious

statue to have been declared the

largest at the time of its construction,

with all subsequent largest statues

being related to Buddhism. What

was it commissioned in

commemoration of?

Battle of Stalingrad

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This painter is said to have

suffered from synesthesia,

a condition where a man

confuses inputs from his

different senses, and is

one of the pioneers of the

purely abstract art form, as

shown alongside.

Name the painter.

Wassily Kandinsky

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