1. The document outlines the rules for a 20 question trivia game being played over Zoom. It states there will be 20 total questions, some with multiple parts. Questions and clues will be displayed on slides. Additional clues may be revealed if no one answers. Participants should answer using a Google Form and not in the Zoom chat. There will be a repeat of the questions after all are answered initially.

2. Rules
20 questions in total.
Some questions have multiple parts.
Questions on slide.
Clues will be in green. Questions will be bold.
Additional clues will be revealed in case of a quorum. Use hand-raise option in Zoom.
Answer in the Google Form.
Don’t post answers in the Zoom Chat.
There will be a cycle back of questions once we are done with the set.
Let’s be civil and try to have a great time.

3. TRIAL QUESTION
The house in the next slide is somewhere in Oxford, and it has very recently come into the
buyer’s market. It was occupied by a certain author and his family around the time of the
Second World War and is probably the place where some of his epics were written.
A project has been launched by a certain charity group to buy this house and make it sort of
a museum and centre dedicated to the life and works of the said author. They require a
funding of about $5-6 MM, and have enlisted the help of Ian Mckellan, Martin Freeman,
John Rhys-Davies etc. for raising the funds.
Which author are we talking about? (1 answer)

5. J R R Tolkein

6. LET’S REVEAL THE ANSWERS
EVERYTHING ON SHOUTOUT

7. 1.
Created almost half a century back, Project X is a volunteer managed entity which aims to
create and distribute cultural works as eBooks. The project is dedicated to the memory of a
pioneering figure X without whom we would not know mass produced books as we know
today.
Y is another online library which houses multiple books and academic journals and is named
after a certain first in the set Z. Interestingly, things come full circle in the form of XZ, which
is a first of its kind book.
Id X, Y & Z. (3 answers)

8. X : Gutenberg Y : Genesis Z : Bible
1.

9. 2.
In philosophy, falsifiability is the capacity of a theory, hypothesis or a statement to be
disproven by evidence. One of the more famous examples of this is a winged theory called
X, which metaphorically tries to explain an event with a disproportionate and unanticipated
impact with the benefit of hindsight, albeit inappropriately.
While X finds multiple references in literature, its current popularity is due to a well-timed
book of the same name which was published during the first decade of the century.
What is X? (1 answer)

10. X : Black Swan
2.

11. 3.
X is a 2019 TV series set 34 years after the events of a graphic novel of the same name. The
novel was set in an alternate history where the US won the Vietnam war and the Watergate
scandal never came to pass. In a nod to attention to detail, the set of main characters in the
novel were called Y which relates to X in an interesting way.
Id X. (1 answer)

12. X : Watchmen (Y : Minutemen)
3.

13. 4.
The BIT popularly known as X unit is a team set up as a part of the UK Cabinet Office in
2010. The BIT uses techniques and methods in psychology, marketing and social engineering
to inform and improve public policy decisions. The team is headed by psychologist David
Halpern, who has written a book titled ‘Inside the X Unit’ in 2015.
Interestingly, the unofficial name of the team is based on a theory popularized by a Nobel
laureate in a book of the same name i.e. X.
Id X. (1 answer)

14. X : Nudge
4.

15. 5.
Refer the book’s subtitle and cover art to identify the subject matter and therefore a famous
Greek Mathematician. Connect to a memorable quote from a classic 1940s wartime
movie. (2 answers)

16. 5.
Euclid, Casablanca

17. 6.
This author has written and published only one novel. However the popularity of that one
novel has transcended generations, especially in America. A 2014 poll found that novel to be
second favorite book of American Readers.
Apart from the popular success, the novel won The National Book Award, The Pulitzer Prize
and the subsequent movie adaption won the Academy Award for Best Picture, making the
novel part of a very select list of Pulitzer – Oscar duos.
Name the novel (1 answer)

18. 6.
Gone with the Wind

19. 7.
Alfred Hitchcock over the years adapted a lot of books into movies. As the story goes,
Hitchcock went great lengths to not spoil the ending of one such movie. Some of the tactics
employed by him involved – no advance screening for critics, no audience to be allowed entry
into the hall after the movie had begun.
Notably though, the story continues, he also tried to buy as many copies of the book as he
could get so that less and less people get to read it and therefore not know the ending.
Name the book OR the movie. (1 answer)

20. 7.
Psycho

21. 8.
Connect. Non-exhaustive. (1 answer)
• Vikram Chandra
• Prayaag Akbar
• Aravind Adiga
• Bilal Siddiqi

22. Indian authors whose works have been made into Netflix series of the same name
8.

23. 9.
Priya is a comic-book heroine who along with her steed Sahas, go about fighting atrocities
against women. In fact, she’s India’s first female superhero.
So far, there have been 3 different issues in the series titled Priya’s Shakti, Priya’s Mirror &
Priya and Lost Girls – the titles are highly symbolic and capture the essence of the plot.
Priya’s Shakti deals with the issue of gender violence and abuse. Sticking with the theme,
identify the theme of Priya’s Mirror (X) & Priya and Lost Girls (Y). (2 answers)
X is also the theme of a not so basic 2020 Hindi movie, while Y is the theme of a ‘masculine’
2014 movie.

24. 9.

25. 9.
X : Acid Attack Victims Y : Trafficking Victims

26. 10.
Sometimes books for children cause issues amongst conservatives and liberals alike. Explain
why this book was controversial. (1 answer)

27. 10.
Gay Penguins / 2 Daddies or Mummies

28. 11.
Made of Aluminium.
Non-magnetic.
Three pieces rivetted together. 2 rivets missing at the top.
Instructions
November 24 2020:
You will need a 4x4. If you are using the Lockhart Road, go from the south. Maximum
possible speed would be 15-25 kmph. You have to hike your way in. It should take 10-15
minutes. Try going early in the morning to avoid crowds.
November 30 2020 : You missed it. (Picture next slide)
Identify what we are talking about. Name the literary work. (2 answers)

29. 11.

30. 11.
Utah Monolith Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 : A Space Odyssey

31. 12.
The most monumental work that FitzGerald did was an English translation of a selection of
quatrains from Persia, called the Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam.
In the early part of the 20th century, Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London were commissioned to
make a bejeweled and luxurious and version of the same work. Unfortunately, with the death
of Sangorski while transporting the finished book, we have completely lost this copy.
What ill-fate happened to Sangorski and the luxurious copy?
(1 answers)

32. 12.

33. 12.
They perished in the Titanic disaster

34. 13.
6 titles. Non-exhaustive. Connect. (1 answer)

35. 13.
Prison Literature (Above pictures : Paul writing the Prison Epistles, Salo was written by de Sade in Bastille)

36. 14.
Matt Parker is a self-proclaimed standup mathematician. One of his recent books describes
many an error that have happened in real life due to folk not understanding basic
mathematics. It is named Humble Pi, an obvious play on the mathematical constant and the
English idiom.
The book talks about the video game Civilization, in which a programming bug causes a
particular peace-loving global leader’s avatar to behave manically and starts attacking others,
as opposed to the person’s real-life persona.
What is the moniker given to this avatar? (1 answer)

37. 14.

38. 14.
(Nuclear)Gandhi

39. 15.
A very prolific political parody band in the United States, which has made about 40 albums
has somewhere in their chronology around 2000s these set of albums.
Album 21 : One Bush, Two Bush, Old Bush, New Bush
Album 22 : When Bush comes to shove
Album 23 : ___ __ _ _ __ ___
Album 24 : Papa’s got a Brand New Baghdad
The album (23) name closely resembles the name of a book, which got remade into a very
popular film directed by Danny Boyle, featuring AR Rahman’s music.
Give the name of the book, which resembles the name of the album and also is a
popular English idiom (1 answer)

40. 15.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place

41. 16.
X is the title of a sports autobiography. In recent years, probably the most often asked
question about the author is – ‘ Did he look back?’
Y is another sports autobiography by a sportsperson from India’s favourite sport, known for
his comebacks not just in the sport but in life as well. The player has been instrumental in his
country’s global success on more than one occasion.
X & Y have similar titles except for the respective sports term used by the authors. In a
strange twist of events, the sports term in Y is something the author never achieved as much
success as he did in the sport in its entirety. Incidentally both authors have the same
surnames.
Id X & Y. (2 answers)

42. 16.
The Race of my Life The Test of my Life

43. 17.
Post WW1, an anarchist named Louis Emile Cottin attempted to shoot the PM of France,
Georges Clemenceau. He missed and Georges condemned him to 8 years of imprisonment.
Pictured in the next slide is the cover of Le Miroir from 2-March-1919. It shows Cottin being
arrested by two detectives.
Look carefully at this picture and tell me what it inspired. (1 answer)

44. 17.

45. 17.
One of the probable inspirations for Thomson and Thompson in Tintin

46. 18.
Connect. (1 answer)

47. 18.
Works of Munshi Premchand

48. 19.
This is a screenshot from a recent Netflix release, with the shown character in the lead role.
This character shares the name with another lead female character from a 2003 movie.
Interestingly, the two lead characters shared more than just the name i.e. the same mansion
was used as the primary shooting location for both the works.
Name the novel the 2003 movie was adapted from, published a century before the
movie. (1 answer)

49. 19.

50. 19.
Tagore’s Choker Bali

51. 20.
Samuel Buttler’s Erewhon or Over the Range was a landmark book in utopian science-fiction
where the author describes in detail this ambiguous nation lying somewhere between a
dystopia and utopia.
Jose de Alencar’s Iracema is one of the three Brazilian Indianista novels that he wrote which
are romantic tales using local customs, vocabulary and circumstances. In this specific novel,
he talks about the love between the daughter of an Indian chief and a Portuguese adventurer.
Connect both the titles. (1 answer)

52. 20.

53. 20.
Anagram Titles : Erewhon – Nowhere Iracema – America

54. The Anth