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FINALS

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RULES

• 36 questions. All open to pounce/bounce.• Pounce scoring is differential

+20 if 1 team gets it on pounce+15 if 2-3 teams+10 if 4-5 teamNo points if all teams get itIncorrect answer is -10 in all scenarios

• +10 for correct answer on bounce. No negatives.

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• 1. The Mattachine Society, an organisation formed in 1950 in USA, was one of the first of its kind. One of its prominent founding members was Rudi Geirnich, a Jewish American fashion designer whose clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s, which included the monokini.

• When the brainchild behind the group was asked about the choice of the name, he had this to say:“One masque group was known as the "Société Mattachine. These societies, lifelong secret fraternities of unmarried townsmen who never performed in public unmasked, were dedicated to going out into the countryside and conducting dances and rituals during the Feast of Fools, at the Vernal Equinox. Sometimes these dance rituals, or masques, were peasant protests against oppression. So we took the name Mattachine because we felt that we 1950s ____ were also a masked people, unknown and anonymous, who might become engaged in morale building and helping ourselves and others, through struggle, to move toward total redress and change.”

What was the Mattachine society all about?

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Gay rights organisation

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2. CONNECT(INEXHAUSTIVE)

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The voices behind various characters in the Grand Theft Auto games

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• 3. Hansie: A True Story is a 2008 movie based on the aftermath of the match fixing incident for Hansie Cronje.

• Even though he would be easily missed if you watched it then, the actor playing Allan Donald would be instantly recognised by followers of international cricket if they watched the movie now. Just name the actor.

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Dane Vilas

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• 4. Hippasus was an ancient Greek ___________ philosopher. Not much is known about his life or teachings, but he is often credited with the discovery of irrational numbers (despite any definite evidence).According to the myths, his discovery piqued and shocked the ____________, because they believed till then that any number could be written as the ratio of two integers.

• It is also claimed that Hippasus drowned at sea, apparently as a punishment from the gods. Some more modern extreme versions of the legend state that he made his discovery while on a ship and the other ____________ threw him overboard.

• FITB

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Pythagorean

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• 5. Bishop Aringarosa is one of the major characters in Dan Brown’s bestselling thriller, “The Da Vinci Code”. He is introduced in the first few chapters of the book, and for a substantial part is portrayed in situations and places that make the reader see him as the primary antagonist and the person responsible for all the chaos. At the end, however, the mastermind of the conspiracy to unearth the Holy Grail is revealed to be Leigh Teabing, and Aringarosa turns out to be innocent.

• The name of the character, however is, through a clever play of words, the author’s hint/joke. How?

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• Aringarosa translates in English to red herring!

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• 6. X is one of the most iconic food/beverage outlet in the national capital. In 2011, it changed its name though, as it turns out that it was not the “original” X.

• Edward X started his eponymous business in 1925, but sold his business interests in Delhi to Ram Krishna Dalmia, who set up numerous distribution outlets. In the 1970s, with the government acquiring land for diplomatic enclaves in Chanakyapuri, the brand dissolved. However, the franchisee operating the now iconic outlet retained the name.

• Now, Ram Krishna Dalmia’s grandson has tried to revive the business by opening outlets in 4 locations under the name X and forcing the legendary namesake to rechristen itself.

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Keventers (the ‘original’ in CP is now Shake Square)

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• 7. X was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters.

• His most distinctive contribution are the numerous self portraits that he painted. He created nearly one hundred self portraits that create a visual diary of the artist over a span of 40 years. Some of these have been shown on the next slide.

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Rembrandt

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• 8. Tiruchi Siva is an MP in the Rajya Sabha representing Tamil Nadu, belonging to DMK.

• On April 24, 2015, what did he get done on his own that had not happened for 45 years?

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He got a Private Member’s Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha. (It was a bill on the rights of transgenders)

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• 9. One of the most important sociological books of the 20th century, ‘The X ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ was written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist and politician.

• In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the X(particularly _________) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. In other words, the X work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism.

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Protestant (the blank is ‘Calvinist’)

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10. This is a bust of X installed in Jhamri village of Jhajjar, Haryana, in August 2015.X was one of Asia’s best players of his time in a sport India has never had any illustrious history in.He captained India in its first appearance in the Asian championship of the sport in 1965, and despite India’s 7th place, he finished as one of the highest scorers of the tournament.The coach of Phillipines, one of the strongest Asian teams of the time, had famously remarked, “ Give us X and we will conquer the world.” Id X and the sport.

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Khushi Ram, Basketball

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• 11. Phir Subah Hogi is a 1958 Hindi movie directed by Ramesh Saigal and starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha. With Khayyam as music director and Sahir Ludhianvi as lyricist, the movie gave Bollywood some memorable songs such as ‘Wo Subah Kabhi to Ayegi’, ‘Aasman pe Hai Khuda aur Zameen pe Ham’, and ‘Chino-Arab Hamara’.

• Not many know that this movie was based on a classic nineteenth century European novel.Incidentally, when the idea of adapting the novel for a film came up in front of Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with Francois Tuffaut, he said, “Well, I shall never do that, precisely because _____ ___ __________ is somebody else's achievement. There's been a lot of talk about the way in which Hollywood directors distort literary masterpieces. I'll have no part of that! ”

• Just name this classic.

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Crime and Punishment

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12. What is the list all about?

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Floyd Mayweather Jr’s 49 fights

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• 13. xy Corp. established as Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. In 1952, Lak-Hui (pronounced “X", currently xy Chem) became the first Korean company to enter the plastics industry. As the company expanded its plastic business, it established Y Co. Ltd. (currently xy Electronics Inc.) in 1958. Both companies Xand Y merged and formed XY.

• Y produced South Korea's first radio. Many consumer electronics were sold under the brand name Y, while some other household products (not available outside South Korea) were sold under the brand name of X. The X brand was famous for hygiene products such as soaps and HiTi laundry detergents, but the brand was mostly associated with its X and Perioe toothpaste. Even today, xy continues to manufacture some of these products for the South Korean market, such as laundry detergent.

• In 1995, to compete better in the Western market, the XY Corporation was renamed “xy". The company also associates the letters XY with the company's tagline.

• (xy denotes the acronym and XY denotes the earlier complete names. Give me XY)

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Lucky Goldstar

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• 14. In the 12th episode of the 3rd season of The Big Bang Theory, Dr Sheldon Cooper says, “Sometimes, when I feel stifled and want a change of scenery, I use my imagination. One of my favorite places to visit is the two-dimensional world described in X’s mathematical fantasy, Y . . . I am now a hexagon in two-dimensional space and can only perceive the edges of other objects.”

• Y is a 19th century book describing a two dimensional world, where females are simple line segments and men are polygons, with the number of sides deciding social status and roles. Even though the book was meant to be a satire on the strictly hierarchical Victorian culture, its most enduring contribution is now believed to be its treatment of dimensions. Even though published before Einstein’s theory of relativity, the book’s narrator, a square, speculates about worlds with more than 3 dimensions.

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X- Edwin Abbott AbbottY- Flatland

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• 15. _________: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, published in 1997.

• In 2000, it was dramatised as a TV series titled _________, with Michael Gambon playing the role of John Harrison. In 2001, _________ was nominated for the British television academy awards in ten categories, winning five, including Best Actor and Best Drama Serial.

• What was John Harrison’s achievement all about?

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Invented the marine chronometer, which solved the problem of calculating longitude at sea. (The word that goes into the blank is ‘longitude’)

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16. This remark by Benjamin Freed, a US journalist is made in jest. Put Funda/ What error is he making fun of?

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The announcement is for the death of Yogi Berra, the baseball player. The news report mentions Yogi Bear, a cartoon character (whose name was allegedly inspired from Berra’s).The Jellystone National Park is the fictional location of many of Yogi Bear’s adventures.

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• 17. The modern usage of X refers to someone or something that is often blamed for problems caused by other people.

• A X was a young boy who was assigned to a young prince and was punished when the prince misbehaved or fell behind in his schooling. X were established in the English court during the monarchies of the 16th and 17th centuries.

• X were generally of high status, and were educated with the prince from birth. Because the prince and X grew up together they usually formed a strong emotional bond, especially since the prince usually did not have playmates as other children would have had. The strong bond that developed between a prince and his X dramatically increased the effectiveness of using a X as a form of punishment for a prince. The idea of the X was that seeing a friend being beaten for something that he had done wrong would be likely to ensure that the prince would not make the same mistake again.

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Whipping Boys

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• 18. On 28 August 1936, Celtic FC beat Galston 7-1.Some excerpts from reports:

• “Ten twinkling toes of X, Celtic FC's player from India hypnotised the crowd at Parkhead last night in an Alliance game with Galston. He balances the ball on his big toe, lets it run down the scale to his little toe, twirls it, hops on one foot around the defender, then flicks the ball to the center who has only to send it into goal. Three of Celtic's seven goals last night came from his moves” – The Scottish Daily Express

• “ In his bare feet he was a conspicuous figure but this was further emphasised by his dark skin against the white and green of the Celtic strip. His play was top class. Every ball he touched went exactly to the place he wanted it to. Not one inch was it out. His crosses into goal were simply shrieking to be nodded into the net.” –Glasgow Observer

• “…proved an expert in trapping and lobbing the ball towards goal. He fairly hypnotised the opposing defenders, and seven goals were actually the outcome of his moves.”- Alan Breck’s ‘Book of Scottish football’

• X was the first Indian player to play for a European side, and as these reports show, he had a great impact.

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Mohammad Salim

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19. The X is a conceptual high-speed transportation system originally put forward by entrepreneur Y incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.In July 2012 at a PandoDaily event in Santa Monica, California, he described several characteristics of what he wanted in a hypothetical high-speed transportation system: immunity to weather, cars that never experience crashes, an average speed twice that of a typical jet, low power requirements, and the ability to store energy for 24-hour operations.X technology has been explicitly open-sourced by Y and ______, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them. To that end, several companies have been formed, and dozens of interdisciplinary student-led teams are working to advance the technology.Preliminary analysis reveals that the system might touch top speeds of 1200 km/h.

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X- HyperloopY- Elon Musk

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• 20. Wilkins X is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1850 novel, David Copperfield. He was modelled on Dickens' father, John Dickens, who like X was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands.

• X is known for asserting his faith that "something will turn up". His name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation. This has formed the basis for the X Principle, based upon his observation:"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery." - (Chapter 12)

• The character of X has given rise to the English noun X and the adjectives Xish and Xesque. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a X as "one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune“

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Micawber

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• 21. Lord Acton was an English catholic historian, politician, and writer. Many of us might not have heard of him, but all of us have definitely heard his most famous quote, “_____ ________, ___ ________ _____ ________ __________”, something which has almost become an idiom now.Although often quoted universally, we could say the quote talks about a subject very relevant to India.

• In the letter in which this quote occurs, it is followed by the phrase, “Great men are almost always bad men..”

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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• 22. Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of the United States:“"Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of ______ the greatest honor that had ever come to me. I value it above all others because to be a Grand Master of ______ one must be more than a good public relations man—he must have a background based upon the noblest of principles, and he must bear the respect and esteem of the good men who make up the Craft.“FITB

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Masons/Freemasons

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• 23. One of the most recognisable sculptures of the world, originally named The Poet (French: Le Poète), The X was initially a figure in a large commission, begun in 1880, for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell. Y (creator) based this on The Divine Comedy of Dante, and most of the many figures in the work represented the main characters in the epic poem.

• Some critics believe The X, at the centre of the composition over the doorway and at about 70 cm high larger than most other figures, was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. However, there are questionable aspects to this interpretation, including that the figure is naked, Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the figure, as used, in no way corresponds to Dante's effete figure.Another interpretation is that the X is Y himself meditating about his composition. Others believe that the figure may be Adam, contemplating the destruction brought upon mankind because of his sin.

• Y decided to treat the figure as an independent work, at a larger size.There are now about 28 full size castings, in which the figure is about 186 centimetres (73 in) high, though not all were made during Y’s lifetime and under his supervision. Now, the figure is often used to represent philosophy.

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X- The ThinkerY- Auguste Rodin

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Oxford Comma

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• 25. ___ _______ ___ ________: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics.“The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that “___ _______ ___ ________; all else is the work of man.“Kronecker was a 19th century German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.

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God created the Integers

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• 26. X is a great American director who has always identified Satyajit Ray as one of his biggest influences. In his own words, “.. In sheer terms of content and cinematic excellence, I rank Ray amongst the top ten directors of the last century….. The few interactions I had with Ray are memories I treasure. Not only was he more well-versed about world cinema than me, his knowledge about western classical music and international literature is something I only noticed in Sir David Lean and Akira Kurosawa”

• In recent years, he has also claimed that Ray was the influence behind E.T. As he says, “In the late 60s, there was a big probability of Ray coming down to Hollywood to shoot The Alien based on his own short story which appeared in the then popular Bengali magazine, Sandesh. The film was to be produced by 20th Century Fox and Hollywood was waiting to embrace Ray with open arms. Alas! Due to some dirty politics played by unknown quarters, Ray's Hollywood dream had to be shelved. I have no qualms in admitting that Spielberg's E.T. was influenced by Ray's Alien. Even Sir Richard Attenborough pointed this out to me.”

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Martin Scorsese

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• 27. During a series of marquee basketball games on Christmas day last year, an ad aired starring NBA players such as Stephen Curry, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Joakim Noah.

• In a move with little precedent in professional sports, the N.B.A. is putting the weight of its multibillion-dollar brand and the prestige of its star athletes behind a series of television commercials calling for an end to ___ ________.

• The ads were in collaboration by an organisation headed by former New York Mayor Michael R Bloomberg, ‘Everytown for ___ ______’.

• Of course, this action by the NBA divided opinions, but the players got a thumbs up from Barack Obama, who tweeted that he was proud of the NBA for “taking a stand”.

• What were the ads all about?

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Campaign to end gun violence(Bloomberg’s organisation is ‘Everytown for Gun Safety)

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• 28. In one of the most iconic scenes of 1970s Bollywood, Amitabh Bacchan stands inside an Easter egg in the movie Amar Akbar Anthony, says something confusing in English, and then breaks into the popular song, “My name is Anthony Gonsalves”. However, not many know that when Anthony is saying, “sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with the exuberance of your own verbosity”, he is quoting almost exactly from a British Prime Minister’s speech in 1878 attacking W E Gladstone.

• A two time Conservative Prime Minister, he was also the first British Prime Minister of Jewish birth. Name him.

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Benjamin Disraeli

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• 29. X was a New Zealand off spinner who played only two tests and has only one international wicket to his name. However, that one wicket came in the way of something historic.

• In the first test match against Australia in Brisbane in November 1985, Y had run through the Australian innings claiming all of the first 8 wickets to fall. He seemed set to become the only bowler after Jim Laker to take all 10 wickets in an innings, as the no 10 and 11 batsmen were Dave Gilbert and Bob Holland, with batting averages of 7 and 3 respectively.

• However, it was not to happen as X got his only test wicket by having Z caught in the deep….. ironically by Y himself.Y finished the innings with 9 wickets.Id X, Y and Z

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X- Vaughan BrownY- Richard HadleeZ- Geoff Lawson

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30. X is a traditional French stewed vegetable dish originating in Nice.It is typically prepared as a stew with each vegetable being sautéed separately before being layered into a baking dish and baked.X is usually served as a side dish, but may also be served as a meal on its own (accompanied by pasta, rice or bread).Tomatoes are a key ingredient, with garlic, onions, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, marjoram, fennel and basil, or bay leaf and thyme, or a mix of green herbs like ’herbes de Provence’You may not have eaten it, but many of you may have heard of it in 2007.

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Ratatouille

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• 31.‘Woh’ was an Indian horror show that aired on Zee TV in 1998. It tells the story of Ashutosh and his friends who at different stages of their life have to battle an evil force called ‘Woh’ and rid their town Panchgani of the menace.The role of Ashutosh as a child was played by X while Y portrayed the grown up Ashutosh.

• X is now a mainstream Bollywood actor who made his Hindi film debut in 2005, and Y is an acclaimed Hindi director.

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X- Shreyas TalpadeY- Ashutosh Gowariker

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• 32. The Marshall Islands is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

• On April 24, 2014, they got worldwide attention due to a case they filed in the International Court of Justice against nine nations, accusing them of not fulfilling their obligations with regard to something. They also filed a separate case against the United States in U.S Federal District Court.

• What are these cases all about?

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It was a case against all nuclear weapon countries accusing them of not doing enough for nuclear disarmament.

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• 33. From the middle of the 19th century, X became a popular destination for the sick and ailing because the microclimate in the high valley was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. Robert Louis Stevenson, who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in X in 1880 upon the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote an article about skiing in X in 1899. A sanatorium in X is also the inspiration for the Berghof Sanitorium in Thomas Mann's famous novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain)

• Now, however, we know X as the venue for an annual event. What?

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World Economic Forum in Davos

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• 34. In a match in February 2016 against Galatasaray, Trazbonspor player Salih Dursun was sent off for showing a red card to the referee himself.The club is no stranger to run ins with referees, as the chairman Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu was banned for 280 days in November for doing something (because he was unhappy at not being awarded a penalty), that took Turkey’s president’s intervention to be reversed. What did he do?

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He locked the match officials in the stadium!

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• 35. X was one of the most successful American jazz singers of all time, also termed as ‘The First Lady of Song’. Despite her success, she also faced significant discrimination because of her colour. During the 50s, a popular nightclub in California was Mocambo, frequented by the likes of Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart etc. However, X was not allowed to perform there due to her race.

• Then, one of her biggest fans made a telephone call that quite possibly changed the path of her career for good. Here, she tells the story of how Y changed her life:“I owe Y a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Y’s superstar status – that the press would go wild.The owner said yes, and Y was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.“

• This incident was also dramatised in a play termed ‘X and Y’ in 2008.

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Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

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• 36. Mosima Gabriel "Tokyo" Sexwale is a South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former political prisoner. A charismatic leader, Sexwale was imprisoned on Robben Island for his anti-apartheid activities, alongside figures such as Nelson Mandela. After the 1994 general election—the first fully democratic election in South Africa—Sexwale became the Premier of Gauteng Province. He served in the government of South Africa as Minister of Human Settlements from 2009 to 2013. More recently, he was in news for being a presidential candidate in the FIFA election.

• Apart from all this, he also has a (somewhat lateral) connect to Donald Trump. What?

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He hosted the South African version of ‘The Apprentice’