Mega Connect Quiz

There is an underlying theme in all the questions in this quiz. Do not

shout out the theme if you know it.

1.) Connect them to a unique achievement

Only Japanese players to score a goal in EPL

• Shinji Kagawa• Hidetoshi Nakata• Junichi Inamoto

2.) Short bio of X• A German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space

architect• Central figure in Germany’s rocket development program.

Designed the V-2 combat rocket during World War II.• Taken to the US as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip

where X worked on the United States Army Intermediate Range Ballistic Missle program before being assimilated by NASA.

• At NASA, he served as director of Marshall Space Flight.• His crowning achievement was to lead the development of Saturn

V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the moon in July 1969.

• According to NASA, he is ‘the greatest rocket scientist in history’.

Wernher von Braun

3.) Which organization?

CERN

• Fun fact: One of the public exhibits at CERN include The Hindu deity, Shiva engaging in the Nataraja dance, parallelling the movements or “dance” of subatomic particles.

4.) Which album?• Snippets of voices between and over the music are another notable

feature of the album. • Staff and temporary occupants of the studio were asked to answer a

series of questions printed on flashcards. Questions such as "What's your favourite colour?" and "What's your favourite food?", before moving on to themes more central to the album (such as madness, violence, and death). Questions such as "When was the last time you were violent?", followed immediately by "Were you in the right?", were answered in the order they were presented.

• A roadie, Chris Adamson, who was on tour with X, recorded the explicit diatribe which opens the album: "I've been mad for fucking years—absolutely years". The band's road manager Peter Watts (father of actress Naomi Watts) contributed the repeated laughter heard in 2 of their songs.

The Dark Side of the Moon

5.) What change did this historic document bring about?

• The British Mandate for Palestine, or simply the Mandate for Palestine, was a legal commission for the administration of the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros. The draft of the Mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, amended via the 16 September 1922 Transjordan memorandum and which came into effect on 29 September 1923 following the ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne. The mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948.

6.)• Pablo Neruda (1904–73) denounced foreign multinational corporate

political dominance of Latin American countries with the four-stanza poem "La United Fruit Co."; the second-stanza excerpts read:

. . . The Fruit Company, Inc.Reserved for itself the most succulent,

The central coast of my own land,The delicate waist of America.It rechristened its territoriesAs the “______________",

And over the sleeping dead,Over the restless heroes

Who brought about the greatness,The liberty and the flags,

Banana Republic

7.) Which book?

• The first part of the Ibis trilogy• Winner of:– Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction– Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize– British Book Design and Production Award

Sea of Poppies

8.) Connect

Have all essayed the role of Al Capone

• Robert De Niro in The Untouchables (1987).• William Devane as Al Capone in Lois & Clark:

The New Adventures of Superman (13 November 1994)

• Anthony LaPaglia in Road to Perdition (2002), in a deleted scene.

• Jon Bernthal in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009).

• Stephen Graham in Boardwalk Empire (2010)

9.) Connect (wrt to plot lines)

Hitchcock films based upon the idea of an innocent man on the run

• The 39 Steps – The key to the theme

10.)

• X are small humainoid and animal figurines made during the late Jomon Period (14,000-400 BC) of prehistoric Japan.

• There are various styles of X, depending on exhumation area and time period. There are over 15,000 such figurines across Japan.

• The purpose of X remains unclear. They were most likely effigies of people.

• Ancient astronaut theorists have suggested that some X figurines may represent beings in spacesuits.

Dogu

11.)

• The International Campaign for Tibet presents the X Award to individuals and institutions who have made significant contributions to the public understanding of Tibet and the fight for human rights and democratic freedoms for the Tibetan people. The award itself is a simple Tibetan butter lamp, symbolizing the extraordinary light that each recipient has drawn to the Tibet issue. X Award is the most prestigious award in the Tibet movement and has been presented each year by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on behalf of ICT.

The Light of Truth Awards

12.) Possible explanations for?

• Deadly fungus could have been grown and released when open to the air. (Supported by Arthur Conan Doyle)

• Pathogenic Bacteria of Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas genera have been found.

• Breeding ground for bats, and bat guano may harbour histoplasmosis. However, at the concentrations typically found, it is dangerous only to those with weakened immune system.

• Air samples showed high levels of ammonia, formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide.

The Curse of the Pharaohs

• The tomb was opened on November 29, 1922.• Lord Carnarvon died on April 5, 1923 after a

mosquito bite became infected. His death was 4 months, and 7 days after the opening of the tomb.

• "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King" – a phrase which does not actually appear among the hieroglyphs in KV62, even though it was said to appear in several different places.

13.)

• Fram is said to have sailed farther north (85°57'N) and farther south (78°41'S) than any other wooden ship. Which was its most famous expedition?

• Nansen's 1893–1896 Arctic expedition• Sverdrup's 1898–1902 Canadian Arctic islands

expedition• Amundsen's 1910–1912 South Pole expedition

14.) Put funda. This is a café at a place called Baarle-Nassau

• The border's complexity results from a number of equally complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, other parts devolved to Breda. These distributions were ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline settlements arrived at during the Treaty of Maastricht in 1843.

15.) What is being described here?

• The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of X as follows:

• On the North. The Southern limits of the Gulfs of Suez [A line running from Ràs Muhammed (27°43'N) to the South point of Shadwan Island (34°02'E) and thence Westward on a parallel (27°27'N) to the coast of Africa] and Aqaba [A line running from Ràs al Fasma Southwesterly to Requin Island (27°57 N ′34°36 E) through Tiran Island to the Southwest point thereof ′and thence Westward on a parallel (27°54'N) to the coast of the Sinaï Peninsula].

• On the South. A line joining Husn Murad (12°40 N 43°30 E) ′ ′and Ras Siyyan (12°29 N 43°20 E).′ ′

The Red Sea

16.) Out of over 100 types of these, here’s a list of the 7 most common ones, from lightest to darkest

Color Description

Double Claro very light, slightly greenish (also called Candela, American Market Selection or jade); formerly popular, now rare.

Claro very light tan or yellowish.

Colorado Claro medium brown, includes Natural and English Market Selection

Colorado Distinctive reddish-brown (also called Rosado or Corojo)

Colorado Maduro darker brown;

Maduro Very dark brown or black;

Oscuro Very black, (also called Double Maduro), often oily in appearance; has become more popular in the 2000s;

Cigar wrappersA cigar's outermost leaves, or wrapper, come from the widest part of the plant. The wrapper determines

much of the cigar's character and flavor, and as such its color is often used to describe the cigar as a whole.

17.) Mythology surrounding which god?

• X ('Earth-Maker') was considered the creator god by the people who lived in this part of Peru before the Inca conquest. The Inca took him into their pantheon, but considered him a lesser rival of Viracocha, their creator god.

• The myths that survive of X are sparse and confused: some accounts, for example, identify him as Manco Cápac's cowardly brother Ayca, while others say that he, Manco Cápac and Viracocha were the sole three sons of Inti, the sun god. Another story says that he made the first man and the first woman, but forgot to give them food — and when the man died and the woman prayed over X’s head to his father Inti to make her the mother of all the peoples of earth, X was furious. One by one, as the children were born, he tried to kill them — only to be beaten and to be thrown into the sea by her hero-son Wichama, after which he gave up the struggle and contented himself by becoming the supreme god of fish.

Pacha Kamaq

18.)

• X is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play X et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's X, Part 1. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859.

• A performance of the opera is part of the story of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera and features in some film adaptations including the 1925 version.

• Charles-François Gounod (17 June 1818 – 17 October 1893) was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria (based on a work by Bach) as well as his operas X and Roméo et Juliette.

Faust

19.) Wiki entry for X• X may refer to:• Kings of Bohemia, members of the Přemyslid dynasty• X I of Bohemia, died 1230• X II of Bohemia, died 1278• Four Styrian margraves of the dynasty of the X’s• X I, Margrave of Styria, died 1064• X II, Margrave of Styria, died 1122• X III, Margrave of Styria, died 1164• X IV, Duke of Styria, 1192• Count X Czernin, diplomat/politician in the Austro-Hungarian

monarchy• X's (a chain of bookshops in the United Kingdom)

Ottokar

20.)• To produce the varied backgrounds and other illustrations for Y, X drew

on a much wider variety of pictorial sources, such as newspaper clippings, than he had done for any of the earlier Z adventures. He went to particular effort in order to depict the Y as a historically accurate 17th century warship, studying the plans of naval vessels from that period which were found in the Naval Museum in Paris. As his primary influence for the fictional craft, he chose a ship named Le Brillant which had been constructed in Le Havre in 1690 by the shipwright Salicon and then decorated by Jean Bérain the Elder. He also however studied other vessels from the period, such as the Le Soleil Royal, La Couronne, La Royale and Le Reale de France, in order to better understand 17th century ship design. It was from the latter vessel that he gained a basis for his design for the Y's jollyboat. No ship named the Y had ever been listed in the annals of the French navy, so X instead took the name.

X – Herge, Y – The Unicorn, Z – Tintin (the MEGA theme)