Acumen Theme Quiz

Allons-y, My Dear Bond
Mains
● 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 1
Elementary, My Dear Watson

1
● 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

2
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

3
● 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?

4
Connect
● Fingerprints
● Typewritten document analysis
● Identifying blood stains
● Gunshot firing distance

Techniques shown in Sherlock
Holmes books' before their use in
the real world

5
● 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?

6
● 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.

7
● The next slide shows an image of a mash-up
between?
(No part points)

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.

9
● 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?

10
● 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!

11
● 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-Dubbelosix
Y-Albert Uderzo
Z-Asterix

12
● 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

13
● 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.

14
● 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".

15
● Identify this actress who was, as of 2014, is the
oldest living actor on Doctor Who!
(pic on next slide)

16
● 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?

17
● 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

18
● 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?

19
● 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.

20
● 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?

Round 3
Trust me, I'm the doctor

21
● 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.

22
● 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)

23
● 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?

24
● 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

25
● 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.

26
● 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?

27
● 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

28
● 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?

29
● 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?

30
● 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 4
Shut The Fuck Up, Reddy
Reddy

Only Theme Related
Questions in This Round

31
● 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 fleming
He named his villain Auric
Goldginger after the famous
architect Erno Goldfinger

32
● 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. Watson
Y-Sherlock Holmes

33
● "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.

34
● 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?

35
● 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 Celeste
Y-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

36
● 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?

37
● Connect the 3 people shown on the next 3
slides.
● Warning: Trivial

Only people to know Doctor's real
name

38
● 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?

39
● 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?

40
● 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?

Only General Questions
in This Round

41
● 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?

42
● 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.

43
● 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.

44
● 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

45
What is happening in the pic?
(on next slide)

Protest against UK banning certain
sex acts

46
● 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

47
● 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 Salute
Y-Nazi
● The salute was initially referred to as the
Roman salute until it was adopted by the Nazi
Party

48
● 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)

49
● This famous plaque is in Woodstock,illonois.
● Id the person and give me the funda
(pic on next slide)

Bill Murray
It is the plaque at the place where
Bill Murray repeatedly stepped into
a puddle in the famous movie
Groundhog Day

50
● 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 Hobbes
Y-Bill Watterson

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