Achambha - The Post End-Sem Hub Quiz, Part 1

ACHAMBHAThe Post End-Sem Hub Quiz,

NIT Silchar

Part 1- Aveek Baruah

WARM-UP

Identify the minimal posters that follow…

LET THE QUIZ BEGIN…

X is a Japanese word. X are typically modeled after

conventional animals, insects or mythological creatures;

however, there are more exotic examples. Technically,

monsters such as vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's

monster, mummies and zombies would fall into this category.

Nowadays, the term X is used in English to describe creatures

from films made in Japan in 1950s and Japanese folklore.

Kaiju

Due to the high value of X in many parts of Asia, it was used as

a form of currency throughout China, Tibet, Mongolia, and

Central Asia. This is quite similar to the use of salt bricks as

currency in parts of Africa. X were in fact the preferred form of

currency over metallic coins for the nomads of Mongolia and

Siberia. The X could not only be used as money and eaten as

food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly

beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds. Until World

War II, X were still used as a form of edible currency in Siberia.

What is X?

Tea/Tea Bricks

X won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling in 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, Georgia. His filmography is as follows.

ID X who is famously known in the entertainment field.

Kurt Angle

The ‘X Group’ is an 127-year-old business house. Its most prominent interests

are in Financial Services, with others being IT, Media, Healthcare,

Education, Power Generation, Infrastructure, Plantations, Precious metal, Tourism, and Hospitality. The Group takes its name from the X Family, set up

by X Ninan Mathai in 1887.

Later it was taken over by his son M. George X who incorporated the

Finance division of the group. Now, X Finance Ltd. is known as the largest gold financing company in the world and has presence in the US, UK, UAE

and India.

ID X

X = Muthoot

____ Neue is a typeface (font) released in 2014. It was designed by Craig

Rozynski as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but frequently

criticised typeface, X.

X, the font, was created by Vincent Connaire in the 1990s. Since its creation, X

has come to be considered "the world's most reviled typeface"

Critics comment:

"If X resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship,

Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior."

"X's much more attractive and worldly brother"On the other hand, comic book writer Mark Evanier said that the typeface was

an improvement on X, but that it still did not meet the standards of a

professional cartoonist, when used in all caps, which is how comic books are

typically lettered.

Give X.

Comic Sans

X and Y were two popular literature fiction series, created by publisher Edward

Stratemeyer.

X first appeared in 1927, and was written by may ghostwriters over the years, under a

collective pseudonym (Leslie McFarlane being the first writer). X sought to appeal to boys,

idolizing American Boy Scout ideals.

Y first appeared in 1930, by the same publishers, and also by writers under another

collective pseudonym. A cultural icon, Y has been cited as a formative influence by a

number of women, from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, to Hillary Rodham

Clinton and Laura Bush.

There have been several instances of X and Y crossing over. Critics have offered many

explanations for the characters' longevity, suggesting variously that they embody simple

wish fulfillment, American ideals of masculinity, an embodiment of contradictory ideas

about feminity, and the possibility of the triumph of good over evil.

Give X and Y.

X = Hardy Boys

Y = Nancy Drew

The term "X" is actually of British origin, not American.

Contemporary football has roots in British all boys schools. When

the schools started to compete with one another, they needed to

create a single set of rules. They formed the Football Association

(FA) that still governs football in England and Wales. Together, the

schools set forth set of rules that were the "Association Football"

rules. Any football played by these rules was called association

football, abbreviated to "assoc".

What word X comes from this practice?

Soccer (“assoc" was shifted to "assoccer" due to a British tendency

to add a kind of slang "-er" at the ends of words)

The popular, but wrong, image of a Viking dates back to the 1800s, when

Scandinavian artists like Sweden’s Gustav Malmström included the element

of X in their portrayals of the raiders. When Wagner staged his “Der Ring des

Nibelungen” opera cycle in the 1870s, costume designer Carl Emil Doepler

created the X for the Viking characters, and an enduring stereotype was born. Such artists borrowed from Greek or Roman writers, who largely

distorted foreign cultures.

Years of excavations, coupled with studies of images, have yielded no

evidence for the common use of X, except for the occasional ceremonial use

that predated the Vikings (late 8th century).

What is being talked about?

Horned Helmets

L.L. are the initials for many characters featuring in the X universe, X being the

protagonist. For the most part, such have tended to be his adversaries, love

interests, or relatives. Some of the lesser known people were - Linda Lee, Lori

Lemaris, Lara Lor-Van. An uncanny coincidence was that the actor who

played X in the 1950s TV series was engaged to a lady named Leonore

Lemmon.

Over the years, many theories were put forward, one of them being that one

of the creator's first girlfriend had the initials L.L.

An in-universe explanation said that in X's native language, the equivalent for

LL put together resembles the symbol for infinity.

ID X.

Superman The more famous examples being Lois Lane

and Lex Luthor

Sandeep Bomble, a graduate from JJ school of Arts, is the founder of Palasa

Creative Place. Post college he joined Ogilvy where he worked on the campaign for Ponds black head, which was the first print campaign to be

nominated at Cannes film festival in 1999.

He started freelancing, when he got an opportunity to work for brand X and he

proudly calls himself as the man who put a certain key on keyboards of X, and

further coined the name X. The small key design got an award at the New York

Festivals for packaging, which was the first Indian brand to get an award for

packaging at the New York Festivals.

ID X, or his innovative piece of non-intrusive branding.

iBall

The red i-key on iBall keyboards

The origin of the word X is as follows:

In what is now the Czech Republic, then Bohemia, there's a valley

called Joachimsthal - the valley of Saint Joachim. It contains silver,

which ,from 1520, was used to mint coins known as

Joachimsthaler. Joachimsthaler got shortened to thaler or taler

and in Danish and Norwegian it was known as a Y, which was

further corrupted into the English word X.

X, please.

Dollar

ESPN Reporter Keith Law was recently involved in a public tussle on Twitter

trying to defend the theory of Evolution, over one of his co-worker Curt

Schilling’s anti-evolution rant. After things escalated to a level, ESPN

suspended Keith Law and told him to stay off twitter. After the news

spread, people began rallying for Keith on Twitter, and soon ESPN had to reinstate him. After this ordeal, Keith’s first tweet was –

“Eppur si muove”

which means “And yet it moves” (in Italian).

This tweet was a reference to an event in early 17th century, when a

person X exclaimed these words, before being put under house arrest for

defending his theory. Various parallels had also been subsequently drawn

between ESPN and the institution that had persecuted X.

ID X, and what event.

X = Galileo GalileiUttered before the Roman Court of Inquisition

asked ordered him to retract his claims that the

Earth moves around the Sun

Zahir-ud-din Mohammad was a descendant of Tamerlane from his father's

side and Genghis Khan from his maternal side. In 1495, at 12 years of age, he

became the ruler of Ferghana, in present day Uzbekistan. After crushing

defeats in Samarkand, he was forced to flee Uzbekistan with a small band of

followers to the Indian subcontinent.

However, we know him by the name X , which means ‘lion’ in Persian.

ID X.

Babur

X is a type of mixed drink, first recorded in 1632 in British documents. The drink

was brought back from India to England by the sailors and employees of the British East India Company in the early seventeenth century, from where it was

introduced into other European countries. An Indian X has five ingredients:

spirit, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices The name X has its origins in

Hindi/Sanskrit.

Name the drink X.

Punch