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Allons-y, My Dear BondMains

● QM-Tanjay Pathak and Vaibhav Pundir● 5 Rounds● 10 questions per round● Pounce(+20/-10) for Rounds 2 and 3● Bounce(+10/0) for Rounds 1 and 4● We haven't decided about the Round 5 yet● You can ask for hints in every question and you

shall get it(only if no one objects)● Regarding all matters, QM's decision is final

and cannot be challenged

Round 1Elementary, My Dear Watson

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● Jeff Dowd is an American film producer and political activist.

● He met Y while they were promoting their first film, Blood Simple. He is the basis for one of their most popular characters the X.

● The movie was inspired by close to a year of his real life during which time he could have been labeled a slacker. For the majority of his life, he has not been a slacker. In truth, he has been a film marketing and distribution guru for decades, a producer, a producer's representative, a founding member of the Sundance Film Festival, a writer, a political activist known for being a member of the Seattle Seven

● X?

This slide is intentionally left blank

X-The Dude

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Funda● Sean Connery-15● George Lazenby-3● Roger Moore-19● Timothy Dalton-4● Pierce Brosnan-9● Daniel Craig-4

No. of girls each James Bond has slept with

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● X recently disclosed that he was a fan of Doctor Who, and expressed his desire to direct and episode or two for the series.

● He jokingly mentioned, "I did suggest that they did a story in my native country – something to do with the All Blacks versus the Daleks. There's a good story in there, although obviously the All Blacks would have to win!"

● X?

X-Peter Jackson

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Connect● Fingerprints● Typewritten document analysis● Identifying blood stains● Gunshot firing distance

Techniques shown in Sherlock Holmes books' before their use in

the real world

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● X is a dramatic principle which requires that every element in a narrative be necessary and irreplaceable, and that everything else be removed.

● "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.", said by the guy after whom this principle is named.

● This principle is heavily used in James Bond's films. For instance, it became an expected scene in each film where Q would present and demonstrate Bond's assigned tools for the mission, and it was a near guarantee that each and every piece would be invaluable to Bond in the field. In this sense, Bond gadgets became a prime example of the literary technique of X.

● X?

X-Chekhov's Gun

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● In the early 1930’s, bartenders at swanky watering holes like Trader Vic’s and Don the Beachcomber thought up of a clever way to draw in the ladies. They concocted all sorts of fancy cocktails and presented them with a certain article to make them look exotic. The practice has become a tradition since then.

● What was it they did, to draw women to the bars?

They started the trend of umbrellas in cocktails.

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● The next slide shows an image of a mash-up between?

(No part points)

Dr. Who and The Son of Man

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Funda

This board replaced the board saying "Mile 420" because of how

frequently it got stolen.● As you all may have guessed, the sign is in

state of Colorado.

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● Priyesh Trivedi first started drawing X sometime in 2013. X has since gone on to become extremely popular, and his work has been compared to the work of Spanish surrealist cartoonist Joan Cornella.

● He credits the swift popularity of the strips to “the love for nostalgia and the archaic which most of us have that is partly responsible for the popularity. I always found the visual styling of the educational charts from the ’80s and early ’90s very amusing. Most of the people relate to this style because they probably went to school when these charts were widely prevalent.”

● You all must have seen this cult-famous comic strip on Facebook lately.

● X?

X-Adarsh balak

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● It is said that inspiration for the movie (Z) came when the Producer Michael Uslan saw a picture of actor (Y) in the newspaper, portraying a character from another movie (X) in 1980. He took a couple of markers he made a rough sketch with which he pitched the movie and finally got around to making it in 1989.

● X?(pic on next slide)● No points for Y and Z!

X-Tim Burton's Batman

Round 2Shaken, not stirred

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● The character X is an obvious homage to Sean Connery, star of the early James Bond movies.

● Y modelled him on the appearance of Connery at the time the book was being drawn.

● X uses many ancient times versions of the popular gadgets of the Bond movies. His name is a pun on "006" (i.e. "007") — the "six" being required for the "-ix" suffix of all Gaulish names in Z, and also reflecting the number of times Sean Connery portrayed the role of James Bond on screen at that time.

● X?Y?Z?

X-DubbelosixY-Albert Uderzo

Z-Asterix

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● X is a song by Pink Floyd in their atest album, Endless River.

● X means "Let's Go" in French.● Connect this song to this year's Acumen Theme

and give me X.

Allons-y

● The phrase is often used by The Tenth Doctor in Dr. Who.

● It is also the name of this quiz

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● Area code 321 is the area code serving Brevard County, Florida. The area code has been in use since November 1, 1999; it was assigned to the area, instead of suburban Chicago, after a successful petition led by local resident Robert Osband to commemorate the Space Coast's impact on the county.

● Why is the area code 321?

The code refers to the countdown sequence(3-2-1) which has

launched many spacecraft from Cape Canaveral. Cape Canaveral is

a city in Brevard County, Florida.

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● Funda

(images on next slide)● Recently, these bridges has been made in

Netherlands under the project called "Bridges of Europe". Why did Netherlands construct them?

All the bridges appearing on Euro banknotes were fake,so that no country should appear

on banknotes of European union. A mayor of some town in Netherlands, recently

constructed them in their country to be "the nation which feature on bank notes of

Europe".

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● Identify this actress who was, as of 2014, is the oldest living actor on Doctor Who!

(pic on next slide)

Zohra Sehgal

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● Happy and Glorious was a 6 minute short film directed by Danny Boyle and produced by Lisa Osborne for the BBC premiered on 27 July 2012.

● X and Y starred in the film and their stunts were performed by BASE jumpers and stuntmen Mark Sutton and Gary Connery.

● X and Y?

X-Daniel CraigY-The Queen

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● Take a look at the grading system in Germany and Switzerland back in the 1890s.

● It's been the same in both countries as it is today.

Germany vs. Switzerland

1 = 6 = Excellent

2 = 5 = Good

3 = 4 = Sufficient

4 = 3 = Insufficient (fail)

5 = 2 = Poor (fail)

6 = 1 = Very poor (fail)

It's the exact same system just mirrored.

● This is touted as the possible reason for one of the biggest misconceptions in popular culture. So, Identify the misconception.

Einstein got bad grades in school

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● The X Conspiracy is a satire of conspiracy theories that originated in 1994 in the Germany, which claims that the city of X does not actually exist, but is an illusion propagated by various forces.

● In November 2012, German Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to the X Conspiracy in public when talking about a town hall meeting she had had in there, adding: "…if it exists at all." and "I had the impression that I was there”

● X?

X-Bielefeld Conspiracy

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● The Uranus Experiment:Part 2 is a Nebula award nominated porn film. It was nominated for best script.

● It features something which is unprecedented. Although it has been done using CGI many times, it has never been done for real unless The Uranus Experiment did it. A famous example of the thing I am talking about is in James Bond's film Moonraker.

● What did they do?

The Uranus Experiment:Part 2 features Sex scenes in weightless

environment● The weightlessness was achieved by flying an

airplane at 11,000ft and doing a steep dive.

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● Nadeem Mandviwalla, owner and managing director of Mandviwalla Entertainment said that the X was never released in the country and many people have been deprived of the experience of watching it in cinema and, therefore, the audience will come to watch it, if given the chance.

● However, he added that the film will not have a wide release and will be shown at more cinemas but less shows.

● Which movie was released on 19th April 2015, in pakistan?

X-Sholay

Round 3Trust me, I'm the doctor

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● X Y Howell was an art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal.

● His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's to create the character X Y Z.

● He is described as "the king of the blackmailers" and causes Sherlock Holmes more revulsion than any of the murders in his career.

● Howell died in 1890 under strange circumstances. He was found close to a Chelsea public house with his throat slit, with a coin in his mouth.

● The circumstances of Howell's death and the many rumours about his dishonesty and double dealings led to the accusation that he had used letters in his possession to blackmail prominent persons.

● On the next slide, you can see image of X Y Z.

● X Y Z?

Charles Augustus Milverton

● Charles Augustus Magnussen is not an acceptable answer because BBC's Sherlock changed the name from Milverton to Magnussen as a nod to Danish ancestry of the actor Lars Mikkelsen, who played the character in the show.

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● Somewhere in Time is the sixth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 September 1986

● The cover for Somewhere in Time, created by the band's then regular artist, Derek Riggs, displays a cyborg-enhanced Eddie in a futuristic, Blade Runner-inspired environment. Much like the cover of Powerslave, the wrap-around album cover holds a plethora of references to earlier Iron Maiden albums and songs.

● On the cover artwork there is a building "L'Amours Beer Gardens", a reference to the "L'Amours" rock venue which Iron Maiden once played in Brooklyn, New York.

● On the same building is an object, which relates to this year's Acumen theme.

● What?(pic on next slide)

TARDIS

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● Trust me, I am a doctor was originally a BBC Two television programme looking at the state of health care in Britain with a combination of factual reporting and satire, presented by Dr. Phil Hammond, and ran for four series between 1996 and 1999.

● Trust me, I'm the Doctor is also a running gag on the BBC show Doctor Who.

● "Trust me, I'm a doctor" is also the advertising slogan for X, indicating that whenever someone tells you to buy X in a commercial, you should do as told, since the one telling you knows what he's talking about (since "he's a doctor"). Out of this, it has become a running gag as well as a common saying to convince somebody of something, most often emphasizing that you are, in fact, not all that convinced of a certain standpoint yourself.

● X?

X-Dr. Pepper

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● Shammi Narang is a voice-over artist, ex news anchor, emcee and entrepreneur based in Delhi, best known for raising the standards of news-casting in India.

● Narang first got into the voice-over profession by working in the Hindi division of Voice of America. Later he was selected from among 100,000 candidates into Doordarshan, which was then the only channel in India, and became the 'face of Doordarshan news reading' and Indian Television in general during the 1970s – 80s.

● Most of us here have heard his voice and probably got irritated too, during something which is not mentioned above. Where have your heard him?

He is the male voice with a deep baritone that guides the passengers on the do's and don'ts and the Hindi

version of the courteous 'Please mind the gap!' announcements in

Delhi Metro

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● X is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis.

● X is an acronym, meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection.

● The novels portray X as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS.

● X's headquarters are variously stated to be in Leningrad or in Moscow, Soviet Union.

● X?

X-SMERSH

● SPECTRE is not the correct answer because we asked about the books. SPECTRE is SMERSH-like organisation made for use in movies.

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● Sha Ka Ree was a location in Pagan Vulcan mythology, analogous to the Human conception of Eden, the Klingon Qui'Tu, and the Romulan Vorta Vor, from which all of creation was said to have originated.

● According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the name Sha Ka Ree is an allusion to X, who was originally planned to play Sybok

● X?

X-Sean Connery

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● Walt Whitman wrote a poem in 1865, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.

● The poem is classified as an elegy or mourning poem, and was written to honor Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

● Last year, the poem was shared on social media extensively because of a certain event, with people putting lines from the poem as their facebook/twitter/Whatsapp status as an honor to the celebrity.

● Which poem and what event?

O Captain! My Captain!Death of Robin Williams

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● George Edward X, better known as Professor X, is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

● Unlike Conan Doyle's laid-back, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor X is an aggressive, dominating figure.

● He was also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all-trades. Although considered to be "just a homicidal megalomaniac with a turn for science", his ingenuity could be counted upon to solve any problem or get out of any unsavoury situation, and be sure to offend and insult several other people in the process.

● Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor X was based on a real person — in this case, a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at the University of Edinburgh while Conan Doyle studied medicine there.

● X?

X-Prof. Challenger

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● K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was a 1959 Indian court case where Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover.

● The crux of the case was whether Nanavati shot Ahuja in the "heat of the moment" or whether it was a premeditated murder.

● What is this case famous for?

Last jury trial in India

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● On the next slide you can see an exhibit from a famous case in US. What does the image show or who sat there?

The seat that Rosa Parks refused to vacate.

Round 4Shut The Fuck Up, Reddy

Reddy

Only Theme Related Questions in This Round

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● His most notable buildings were the 27-floor Balfron Tower and the adjacent eleven-storey Carradale House & 31-floor Trellick Tower in North Kensington.

● He was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages. He sometimes fired his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular, and once forcibly ejected two prospective clients for imposing restrictions on his design.

● After hearing about this architect, X decided to immortalize him in his work.

● Who is the person we are talking about and how did X immortalize him?

X-Ian flemingHe named his villain Auric

Goldginger after the famous architect Erno Goldfinger

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● X is an application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is named after X of Y fame, the idea being that it would collect error information following a program crash.

● The use of the word "X" has since been expanded to include general end-user feedback services. The original name of this diagnostic tool was "Y".

● The information obtained and logged by X is the information needed by technical support personnel to diagnose a program error for a computer running Windows.

● X?Y?

X-Dr. WatsonY-Sherlock Holmes

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● "On this X Day, viewers everywhere can share in the fun as fans prepare for the release of Sleepy Hollow: Season One on Digital HD now and arriving on Blu-ray and DVD September 16. We hope you like them and are able to share them with your readers! If you share via your social media platforms, please tag them with #Xday!"

● In the Dr. Who episode titled, Robot of Sherwood, aired on 6th September 2014, during the final fight scene between Robin Hood and The Sheriff of Nottingham something happens that reveals to the audience that The Sheriff is actually a robot/cyborg.

● The plot point was removed due to something that also caused a massive PR disaster with the tweet mentioned above.

● What had happened?

X-National Beheading Day

● Dr. Who decided to edit out the beheading scene out of respect for journalists that were killed in the video released by ISIS.

● Sleepy Hollow also apologized for the insensitive marketing campaing.

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● X has been appointed the first United Nations global advocate for the elimination of mines and explosive hazards.

● In a ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York on 15th April 2015, secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told X: “____________. Today, we are giving you a licence to save.”

● Ban thanked X for his commitment to support the UN’s vision for a world free from the threat of land mines and explosive remnants of war and expressed hope that he will raise support for the campaign to abolish them.

● X?

X-Daniel Craig

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● The X was an American merchant brigantine that was discovered on December 4, 1872, off the Azores Islands, sailing with no one on board and with her lifeboat missing.

● Her cargo of denatured alcohol was apparently undisturbed, as were the captain's and crew's personal belongings. None of those who had been on board were seen or heard from again.

● The inconclusive nature of the hearings helped to foster decades of speculation as to the nature of the mystery. Hypotheses include, besides human perfidy, the effects of alcohol fumes from the cargo, submarine earthquakes, waterspouts, attacks by giant squid, and paranormal intervention.

● The most influential retelling, which according to many commentators ensured that the X affair would never be forgotten, was a story in the January 1884 issue of the Cornhill Magazine. This was an early work of Y.

● X?Y?

X-Mary CelesteY-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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● Arthur Conan Doyle was friends for a time with X. They both became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the 1920s. Although X insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery, Doyle became convinced that X himself possessed supernatural powers.

● X was apparently unable to convince Doyle that all this was simply illusion, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two.

● A specific incident is recounted in memoirs by X's friend Bernard M.L. Ernst, in which X performed an impressive trick at his home in the presence of Conan Doyle. X assured Conan Doyle the trick was pure illusion and that he was attempting to prove a point about Doyle not "endorsing phenomena" simply because he had no explanation. According to Ernst, Conan Doyle refused to believe it was a trick.

● Doyle stated, just because the feats of the spirits could be duplicated did not mean that they were not real. Just because X could prove that fraud was possible was not enough to convince Doyle that it actually occurred.

● On an unrelated note, a pun on X was also the codename for the 12th doctor.

● X?

X-Harry Houdini(Whodini)

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● Connect the 3 people shown on the next 3 slides.

● Warning: Trivial

Only people to know Doctor's real name

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● X is a hypothetical elder brother of Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes. His name is taken from early notes as one of those considered by Arthur Conan Doyle for his detective hero before settling on "Sherlock Holmes".

● He was first proposed by William S. Baring-Gould who wrote in his biography that X was the eldest brother of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes once stated that his family were country squires, which means that the eldest brother would have to stay to manage the house. If Mycroft were the eldest then he couldn't play the role he does in four stories of the Sherlock Holmes canon, so X frees them both. This position is strengthened by the fact that Mycroft's general position as a senior civil servant was a common choice among the younger sons of the gentry.

● In Season 3 of BBC's Sherlock, we can see Mycroft saying, "You remember what happened to the other one". Many fans have taken this to be a clue that there is a third Holmes brother and many theories suggest that Moriarty is the aforementioned third brother. However, fans of the books, see that dialogue as a nod to X and not Moriarty. This has been also confirmed by the Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat in the commentary edition of Sherlock's season 3, although fans still refuse to believe him.

● X?

X-Sherrinford Holmes

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● The X was not created for Doctor Who, but was personally commissioned by Jon Pertwee, who retained possession of it after his tenure as the Doctor.

● Pertwee gave it the name "X" during press interviews, but it was also known — again, off-screen — as "Alien".

● Had the vehicle been named in Doctor Who, it almost certainly would not have been called "X", as this violated producer Barry Letts' strong conviction against making plays on the programme's title.

● X was one of Jon Pertwee's personal vehicles. He retained possession of it until nearly the end of his life. It was capable of a top speed of 105 mph.

● X?

X-Whomobile

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● X was a French police officer and biometric researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements.

● Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified based on unreliable eyewitnesses accounts. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting.

● X is also credited with contributions like the mug shot and the systemisation of crime-scene photography which remain in place to this day.

● X is referenced in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskersville, in which one of the Holmes' clients refers to the Holmes as the "second highest expert in Europe" after X.

● X?

X-Alphonse Bertillon

Round 5

Only General Questions in This Round

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● Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy Whiskey-class submarine of the Baltic fleet, which became famous under the designation U 137 when it ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden.

● This incident is popularly known in the West as X

● X?

X-Whiskey on the Rocks

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● Eugene Merle Shoemaker, also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.

● Shoemaker died on July 18, 1997 following a head on car accident while on the Tanami Road northwest of Alice Springs, Australia.

● After his death, he became famous for something and till now, is the only person having that achievement.

● What?

To date, he is the only person whose ashes have been buried on

the Moon.● On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were

carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule designed by Carolyn Porco.

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● While travelling on a British Airways flight, if the passenger next to you is nursing vodka and tonic, holding a Daily Mail and wearing eye shades, why should you be uncomfortable?

He is most likely to be dead

● That is the British Airways' idea of disguising dead travelers.

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● On Monday 8 December 1980 the game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins was in the fourth quarter with the score tied at 13 and the Patriots with the ball late in the fourth quarter and driving to try to score the winning points.

● With 30 seconds remaining in the game, Cosell and Gifford had the following exchange(On Next Slide)

● What did they announce?

● Cosell: ... but (the game)'s suddenly been placed in total perspective for us; I'll finish this, they're in the hurry-up offense

● Gifford: Timeout is called with three seconds remaining, John Smith is on the line. And I don't care what's on the line, Howard, you have got to say what we know in the booth

● Cosell: Yes, we have to say it. Remember this is just a football game no matter who wins or loses._____________________________. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which, in duty bound, we have to take. Frank?

● Gifford: (after a pause) Indeed, it is

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What is happening in the pic?

(on next slide)

Protest against UK banning certain sex acts

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● X is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968. The book is remembered today as an early – and arguably the most popular – example of the growing literary style called New Journalism.

● Wolfe presents an as-if-firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, who traveled across the country in a colorfully painted school bus named "Further". Kesey and the Pranksters became famous for their use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs in hopes of achieving intersubjectivity.

● The book chronicles the Acid Tests, the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.

● X?

X-The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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● X is said to have originated during the Roman times, however no concrete proof of this has been found. It came into popular culture after Jacques-Louis David painted Oath of the Horatii (pic on next slide) in 1784.

● From there, X found its way to the popular culture and is now mostly associated with Y.

● X and Y?

X-Nazi SaluteY-Nazi

● The salute was initially referred to as the Roman salute until it was adopted by the Nazi Party

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● This form of writing was developed by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi in the year of 1552 when he worked as a papal scribe and type designer it was then called the Chancery Cursive but later went on to be known by a completely different name.

● How do we better know this style of writing?

(pic on next slide)

Italics

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● This famous plaque is in Woodstock,illonois.● Id the person and give me the funda

(pic on next slide)

Bill MurrayIt is the plaque at the place where Bill Murray repeatedly stepped into

a puddle in the famous movie Groundhog Day

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● X is a daily cartoon script by Cartoonist Y.● The main characters are named after a 16th-

century French Reformation theologian and a 17th-century English political philosopher.

● He recently came into the public view by drawing a poster for a 2014 documentary called Stripped(pic on next slide)

● X and Y?

X-Calvin and HobbesY-Bill Watterson

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