Prelims

1Engineer Wei Shen led a team of researchers

from Monash University has developed a low cost,efficient device which spells out your blood type almost instantaneously and it works according the ABO system

This has led to it being used in natural disasters,where there is a lack of trained personnel.

What inspired this development?

Tom Marvolo Riddle’s First Horcrux,the sentient diary which wrote back

2Who?

Sean Bean

3 *Where would you see this sign/slogan?

At the Muggle Entrance of St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

4John Hurt was Oscar-nominated for Midnight

Express and The Elephant Man but couldn't pass up a role in a Potter movie no matter how small saying his kids would have killed him had he done so. So he played X

After Richard Harris passed away, Hurt was ‘curious’ to try his hand at playing Dumbledore but his role as X prevented it.

What role did he play?

Mr.Ollivander

X was from Dragonstone, the westernmost outpost of the Valyrian Freehold, which his family had settled over a century before the Doom of Valyria. According to family tradition, X married within the family; however, instead of just one sister, he married both his elder sister, Y, and his younger sister, Z.

Eventually X decided to go west to Westeros, and for years he planned his conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. He made a huge table map of Westeros painted without any borders.

When he was ready, he on his Dragon A and his two sister-wives Z on B and Y on C, landed with his army on the east coast of Westeros at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush and went on to conquer 6 out of the 7 kingdoms .

They failed to conquer Dorne, however, and eventually was forced to respect their autonomy.

Who?

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X-AegonA-Balerion the Black DreadY-VisenyaC-VhagarZ-RhaenysB-Meraxes

6 * X was a fictional character from bedtime stories that Tolkien would

make up for his children. Then he was later added to LoTR for no reason, just as an enigma.

X is called by the Elves "Oldest and Fatherless“ and resides East of The Shire at the edge of the Old Forest, close to the Barrow Downs. He set himself boundaries, but boundaries within which his power was extraordinary. X was a creature of contradictions, one moment defeating ancient forces with hardly an effort, the next capering and singing nonsensical songs. He lived with his wife Goldberry far from any other settlement.

His costume consisted of a blue jacket and yellow boots, and he wore an old and battered hat, surmounted by a feather. He seems to have preferred to wear a swan-feather in his hat, but before he met Frodo and company he had acquired the feather of a kingfisher instead. In his own house, rather than a hat, he wore a crown of autumn leaves, perhaps revealing something of the elemental powers he possessed,

But behind X's simple façade there are hints of great knowledge - he can see the Ring-bearer when invisible and is unaffected by wearing the Ring himself. Gandalf later says that this is because the Ring has no power over him.

X?

Tom Bombadil

7X is a name which alludes to Roman

Mythology.Rome was established by X and Y,who were

both raised in the wild by ________,in a mowgli like fashion.

Also,later in the books,on potterwatch,the famous resistance radio show,X’s codename is Y.

X and Y?

Y=Romulus X=Remus

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Bag-End

9 *X are an ancient guild of assassins from

Qarth. Each X whispers "I am so sorry" to their

victims before they kill them and the until their attack on Daenerys Targaryen using the Manticore by Arstan Whitebeard,they had a frightfull 100% success rate.

The Sorrowful Men

10X answered to a question in an interview: “Therefore

the A are immortal in a sense. I had to use immortal, I didn't mean that they were eternally immortal, merely that they are very longeval and their longevity probably lasts as long as the inhabitability of the Earth.The B of course are quite obviously - wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Care just rustic English people, made ______ because it reflects (in general) the ______ reach of their imagination - not the ______ reach of their courage or latent power.”

Who on what? (*A,B,Cany one leads to the other 2)

JRRT about Elves,Dwarves and Hobbits

11John Nettleship,The former head of science first

discovered that he was the inspiration behind the character X when he was told by his students: "The first I knew was when a someone knocked on the door and said: 'You're X aren't you'. I suppose I was quite strict as a teacher, but I said to my wife: 'They think I'm X.' She said: 'Of course you are – but I didn't want to tell you'."

Mr Nettleship told reporters at the time: "The great thing though is that Y was picked to play the character and the ladies think he is good. That made things better."

X and Y?

Professor Snape and Alan Rickman

Connect: (inexhaustive)BrienneRandyll TarlyJon SnowSer Lyn CorbrayAshara DayneSer Harras Harlaw

12 *

All are the last known keepers of Valyrian Steel Swords

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X was a metaphorical allusion to the HIV infection.

It happened when ______ was young,suffered social stigma and was terrified of passing on the affliction.

It was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they’re treated that unfairly.

X?

Lycanthropy

14 *A Deus Ex Machina literally,“god from the

machine" is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object. Depending on how it is done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted themself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending, or as a comedic

JRRT coined the term eucatastrophe to refer to a sudden turn of events that ensures the protagonist does not meet some impending fate and refered to X as a “dangerous machine”.X recur throughout the LoTR and Hobbit universes

Id X.

The Great Eagles

15 *The X from PoA,but missed out in the movie

are introduced on the map of the credits with the X Lagoon.

Later in GoF,X are the reason which caused Fleur’s early finish of the First Task and Harry’s near Death.

X have been described as “A sickly green creature with sharp little horns had its face pressed against the glass, pulling faces and flexing its long, spindly fingers.”

X=Grindylows

16 The man had X's hair, but he was taller, and his eyes were a dark indigo rather than lilac. “Y," he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. "What better name for a king?" "Will you make a song for him?" the woman asked. "He has a song," the man replied. "He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire." He looked up when he said it and his eyes met ____'s, and it seemed as if he saw her standing there beyond the door. "There must be one more," he said, though whether he was speaking to her or the woman in the bed she could not say. “______________________."

X-RhaegarY-Aegon___=Dany

17X, called Onodrim by the elves, are a very old race that

appeared in Middle-earth when the elves did.X were envisioned as Shepherds of the Huorns, to protect the forests from orcs and other perils.

Gandalf calls Y,one of the the leaders of X, "...the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." In The Return of the King, Celeborn addresses Y as "Eldest.“

X vary in traits, from height,size, colouring,number of fingers and toes etc.

An individual X more or less resembles the specific species of tree that they typically guard. For example, Quickbeam guarded Huorns and thus looked very much like a Huorn (tall and slender, etc.)

There used to be _______(literally “X-women"), but they started to move farther away from the X because they liked to plant and control things, so they moved away to the region that would later become the Brown Lands across the Great River Anduin. This area was destroyed by Sauron, and the ________ disappeared. The X still look for them, but have never found them.

X=EntsEntwives Treebeard asks Merry and Pippin whether they had seen any entwives when they meet.Y=Treebeard

18 *How is a basilisk born?

From a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad.

19 *Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it makes me wonder.There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,And my spirit is crying for leaving.In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,And the voices of those who stand looking. – Stairway to heaven

X was established on the western continent Aman when Melkor,a _____ later named Morgoth, "the black foe", by the Elves destroyed their original home on the island Almaren.

X, while blessed, did not cause mortals to live forever. However, only immortal beings were generally allowed to reside there; amongst the exceptions to this were the A,B and C,as an expression of gratitude.

The Elven Undying lands,ValinorWith the exceptions being Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee who were the Bearers of the One Ring

X was a successful French manuscript-seller and not so successful author who developed a posthumous reputation for his work on something, an interest which he first developed after he met a Jew during his travels.

One of his houses still stands in Paris, being the oldest stone house in the city. The old inscription on the wall, saying “We, ploughmen and women living at the porch of this house, built in 1407, has now been restored.

In literature, we find him mentioned in a number ofbooks, from Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, not to forget The Da Vinci Code and even the Harry Potter series.

Identify X.

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Nicolas Flamel,the famous Alchemist with whom Dumbledore co-discovered the 12 uses of Dragon Blood

21X was named after someone in A History of

Magic and was a companion of Harry.X’s Death signified Harry’s Loss of Innocence

and the approaching War and Death.

Hedwig

22Insert Video_Faceoff

Jimmy Fallon and Benedict Cumberbatch having a Rickman-off

23*The X were three witches in Shakespeare's

play Macbeth who could foresee the future, and elicited evil in Macbeth by means of equivocation.

X was THE band of the Wizarding World and was specially invited by Prof. Dumbledore to perform at the Yule Ball for the Triwizard Tournament.

X consists ironically of 8 male members,who were portrayed by actual musicians from the bands Pulp,Radiohead and All Seeing I.

What’s X?

Weird Sisters