GREY MATTERS

1.

• X, born Farrokh Bulsara, was a British musician, record

producer, and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead

vocalist and lyricist of a popular rock band.

• As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage

persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range.

• He continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the

history of popular music, characterised as "one of rock's

greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the

greatest voices in all of music".

Answer

Freddie mercury

2.

Answer

• Rock – paper – scissors - lizard - spock

( Made famous by The Big Bang Theory)

3.

Answer

• Justice league of America

4.

• “..He has no ambition and no energy. He will not

even go out of his way to verify his own solutions,

and would rather be considered wrong than take the

trouble to prove himself right. Again and again I have

taken a problem to him, and have received an

explanation which has afterwards proved to be the

correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of

working out the practical points...”

— X, speaking of his brother Y.

Answer

X - Sherlock Holmes

Y - Mycroft Holmes

5.

• A _____ is a paradoxical situation from which an

individual cannot escape because of contradictory

rules.

• ____s often result from rules, regulations, or

procedures that an individual is subject to but has no

control over because to fight the rule is to accept it.

• Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel of the

same name, which describes absurd bureaucratic

constraints on soldiers in World War II.

Answer

Catch 22

6.

Connect

A. Jana gana mana

B. Amar Sonar Bangla

C. Sri Lanka Matha

Answer

Rabrindranath Tagore

7.

Connect

• Anne of Green Gables

• Oliver Twist

• A little princess

• Tom Sawyer

• Harry Potter

• Heidi

• Mowgli

• Jane Eyre

Answer

• All are books whose protagonists are orphans.

8.

• Better known by his pen name X, Munroe was

a British writer who is considered a master of

the short story, and often compared to O.

Henry and Dorothy Parker.

• The pen name X may be a reference to a

character in the poem Rubáiyát of Omar

Khayyam.

• However, X may also or instead be a reference

to the South American monkey of that name.

Answer

Saki

9.

• This picture titled “The

Red Vineyards near

Arles” is an oil painting

by the Dutch painter

Vincent Van Gogh. It was

sold in 1890 for 400

Francs.

• Why was this picture

very special to Van

Gogh?

Answer

• It is the only piece sold by the artist while he

was alive.

10.

• X is one of the 25 districts that make up the city of

Seoul in South Korea. X literally means ‘South of the

river’.

• X is considered as the national capital of education

and is known for its heavily concentrated wealth and

high standards of living.

• The city inspired something that became world

famous.

Answer

Gangnam District

11.

• Mr. Tushar read an article in the TOI in 1995 that something (X) which rightfully belongs to his family was stored in the Bank of Odisha for 49 years.

• The bank managers and the Government denied it. After months of court hearings and a hunger strike, the Supreme court finally ruled that X was authentic and restored it to Mr. Tushar’s family.

• This incident inspired a movie called Road to Sangam (2009).

Answer

• X – Gandhiji’s Ashes

• Mr. Tushar Gandhi is the

Mahatma’s great

grandson.

12.

Answer

Alfred Hitchcock cameos

13.

• X is an extreme or irrational fear of heights,

especially when one is not particularly high up. It

belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space

and motion discomfort.

• Y is often used incorrectly to describe a fear of

heights, but it is more accurately a spinning sensation

that occurs when one is not actually spinning.

• Y is a 1958 American psychological thriller

film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Answer

• X – Acrophobia

• Y - Vertigo

14.

Answer

• Robert Downey Jr.

• Mike Tyson

15.

Answer

• Groucho Glasses

(named after comedian Groucho Marx)

16.

Answer

• The most interesting man in the world

17.

• Name all the 7 Indian movies in IMDB top 250.

• Two films, though having Indian actors and

Indian subjects, were foreign productions.

Answer

• Taare Zameen Par (#119)

• 3 idiots (#126)

• Rang de Basanti (#159)

• Gandhi (#198)

• Lagaan (#225)

• Slumdog Millionaire (#238)

• Swades (#249)

18.

• X is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen

Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

• It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love

in which the Party attempts to subject a

prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare,

fear or phobia.

Answer

• Room 101

19.

• The X effect is contradictory interpretations of

the same event by different people.

• The phrase derives from the movie X, where

four witnesses' accounts of a murder are all

different.

• The Simpsons, Spongebob, Virumaandi,

Powerpuff Girls, How I met your mother, have

all used this effect.

Answer

• The Rashomon

Effect

20.

• The X Tower is a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland.

• It consists of a tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that has the words “X" carved into it in 24 languages.

• These words, and the name of the tower, are a reference to Lennon's peace anthem .

Answer

The Imagine Peace Tower