It's Complicated 2.0

Its Complicated V 2.0Grand Finale

Organized by

CETADEL CETquizzite

Questions by

Subhasish and Bidit

Rules

1. 3 rounds consisting of 7 questions

each.

2. 1 bonus question at the end of 2nd

round.

3. QM is always right.

4. QM is good guy.

5. Using abusive language or throwing

anything at the QM will lead to

immediate disqualification.

Round 1Starters

Rules

1. 7 questions in this round.

2. 1 direct question to each team.

3. Others will write down the answers

on the sheet of paper.

4. +10 if answered on direct.

5. +5 for others.

6. No negatives.

In 1959 Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha of Puri confirmed “X” visiting The Jagannath Temple. “X” is believed to have stayed for 8 years learning the Vedas and the Puranas before extending his journey to North India.

This is the first instance of a major religious leader of India confirming “X” had studied at the Jagannath Temple. These exactly match with the findings of famous Russian journalist Nicholas Notovitch thus explaining “X”s “lost years” i.e. ages from 12-30 years.

Who are we talking about?

Answer

Jesus Christ

Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, scholar in Sanskritliterature and Vedas is believed to have constructed and demonstrated the working of India’s first “X” in the year 1895, eight years prior to popular belief. The event took place in Chowpaty in Bombay and was witnessed by a selected crowd. Interestingly the event was recorded by a Marathi daily called “Kesari” that was edited by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

In 1974 a study by students from IISC, Bangalore concluded that the existing evidence to be highly dubious and questioned the technical feasibility of Talpade’s “X”.

ID “X”.

Answer

Talpade built India’s first Aero plane

Jessica Hines is an English actress and a well known writer being nominated for a Tony, a BAFTA, a Laurence Olivier Award and won two British comedy awards. Jessica met “X”, a famous Indian actor and lived with him for almost a year. It is believed that “X” has an illegitimate child named “Jaan” with her, born on 1998.

Jessica claimed that “X” had even asked her to abort the child or forego their relationship. While “X” publicly denied that the child to be his son, Jessica had called for a DNA test.

Who is this famous celebrity?

Answer

Aamir Khan

This is the famous “Shroud of Turin”.

How is this related to a famous belief in Christianity?

Answer

It is believed that Jesus Christ’s body was wrapped in

this cloth prior to burial after his death.

The face of Jesus obtained by NASA in1978 with the use of techniques of imageprocessing, from photographic negativesof the Shroud of Turin.

This is the front page of a six page 1678 document titled “The Mowing Devil”.

The document tells of a farmer who,

refusing to pay the price demanded by

a laborer to mow his field, he swore

that the “Devil” should mow it rather.

Again according to the document, that

night his field appeared to be in flames

and the next morning, the field was

found to be perfectly mowed.

This document and the accompanying

illustration, is often cited by “X”

researchers as among the first

recorded cases of ”X”.

“X” has been a subject of many

hoaxes and famous conspiracy

theories.

ID “X”.

Answer

Crop Circles.

The concept of “X” first rose to national attention in India in 2009, with initial claims coming from Kerala and Mangalore, but claims have subsequently spread throughout the nation and beyond. The concept has remained a source of political contention and social concern for many, although as of 2014 the idea of “X” was still widely regarded as a conspiracy theory by the Indian mainstream.

Official investigations launched in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 have found no evidence of “X”. As of 2014, individual reports continue to spread.

According to Reuters, the concept was considered "an absurd conspiracy theory by mainstream". Times of India reported, "the term “X” had been coined only to create fear and divide society along communal lines”.

What are we talking about?

Answer

Love Jihad also called Romeo Jihad

The origins of “X” can be traced back to 18th century Bavaria. “X’s goals were to oppose superstitions, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, as a result of which they were outlawed and it possibly went defunct in the next 50years.

Its modern day versions promote themselves to have been descended from Original “X” instead of remaining in secret.

However it is often claimed that the original “X” still exists and has orchestrated many historical events like Battle of Waterloo, the French Revolution, and President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Image in the next slide

Answer

Illuminati

Round 2Serious or Joking???

Rules

1. 7 Serious or Joking(True/False)

questions.

2. 1 direct question to each team.

3. Not passable.

4. +10 for correct.

5. No negatives.

Serious or Joking???

Answer

Serious!!!

This is a real photo of a bicycle in a tree Vashon Island in Washington.

The bicycle was left

behind in the mid-1950s

by a local resident who

had simply abandoned

it:

Serious or Joking???

Answer

Serious!!!!This beautiful landform is located at Zhangye Danxia

National Geological Park in Gansu Province. Over 24

million years ago these mountains formed in China by

laying down mineral deposits over and over again.

Serious or Joking???

Answer

Joking!!!

In early 2000s,this photo was widely circulated as showing “Snowball,” a monster cat owned by Rodger Degagne in Canada.

But later the man behind this came out publicly accepting this to be a fake image.

Serious or Joking???

Answer

Serious!!!This is actually a hotel called Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht that is designed to look like a cruise ship in South Korea.

“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it”.

-Bill Gates

Serious or Joking???

Answer

Joking!!!

The origins of this quote can be traced to an article published in “Popular Science Monthly” in 1920

where Frank Gilbreth Sr. evaluated the motions of workmen to determine the most efficient techniques

to perform tasks.

The actual quote is-

“Most of the chance improvements in human motions that eliminate unnecessary movement and reduce fatigue have been hit upon by men who were lazy—so lazy that every

needless step counted”.

During the second World War the TajMahal was completely covered with a huge scaffold to look like a stockpile of bamboo. This camouflage was done to misguide the enemy bomber planes.

Serious or Joking??

Answer

Serious!!!!

The Taj Mahal was again camouflaged during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. This time green cloth and leaves were used.

Also in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, The Archaeological Survey of India camouflaged the Taj.

These are pictures from a BBC report published in 1957 purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree".

Serious or Joking??

Answer

Joking!!!!

This hoax report was released in April Fool’s Day in 1957.

Bonus QuestionKeeping up with the theme

It is said about him that his chance to create history came because one of his friend who was assigned to do something had failed.

Partly dejected and partly scared he and his friends decided to call off the “Mission”. Answering to the call of his stomach, he munched on a sandwich in a restaurant when suddenly his “Mission” came right in front of him.

He was quick to seize the opportunity and thus was responsible for one of the biggest events in the history of mankind.

Who? And What did he do?

Answer

Garvilo Princip

Mission- Assassination of Archduke Franz

Ferdinand and thus starting of WW1.

Round 3The Showdown

Rules

1. 7 questions of infinite bounce starting

anti-clockwise.

2. +10 for correct answer, 0 for wrong.

3. Teams to those the question is direct

can opt to double the stakes (+20/-

10).

This hoax consisted of a press release that circulated around the Internet in 1994. The press release claimed that ”X” "will acquire the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for an unspecified number of shares in “X” company and that the “X” expects "a lot of growth in the religious market in the next five to ten years... the combined resources of “X” and the Catholic Church will allow us to make religion easier and more fun for a broader range of people”.

This was followed by many more outrageous claims including “X” acquiring the government of the United States of America, the CIA, discounts in all products of “X” etc.

The “X” hoax is considered to be the first such hoax to reach a mass audience through the Internet all around the world.

ID “X”.

Answer

Microsoft

His obsession for actress X started from the 1976 movie Taxi Driver starring Robert de Niro, who attempts to assassinate a presidential candidate & X. When X entered Yale University, he moved to New Haven, Connecticut, for a short time to stalk her. He enrolled in a Yale writing class, began slipping poems and messages under X’s door, and repeatedly phoned her.

Failing in all these he developed plots as aircraft hijacking and committing suicide in front of her to get her attention but finally decided to do something to impress her.

Give me X and what did this person do to impress her.

Answer

X-Jodi FosterThe person is John Hinckley Jr., who attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan

Project A119, also known as "A Study of Lunar Research Flights", was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was “to do something on the Moon” which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. This top secret program has since then become a part of many conspiracy theories.

Some suggested this to be technically infeasible while many others believed this was done to boost the morale of US citizens after the Soviet Union took an early lead in Space Race, display of scientific and technological prowess, strategic military applications and to bankrupt the Soviet Union by convincing it to actually carry out such a mission.

What was the US Government planning “to do on the moon”?

Answer

The US government was planning to blow up an Atom Bomb on the Moon’s surface.

Conspiracy theorist consider this to be one of the greatest cover ups in

history. They question the true existence of “X” by stating –

There is very little info about his personal life except for a will and a few documents dealing with business transactions and property ownership.

He had humble origins and no formal education and thus lacked the education, aristocratic sensibility and diversity that is apparent in his works. Also there are no records of any of his works mentioning him as a writer.

He was a scarcely talented minor actor and could have been used as a front to shield the identity of true authors who did not want or could not accept public credit like Francis Bacon and Edward De Vere.

There are 6 authenticated signatures bearing his name, all with different spellings and illegibly written thus reflecting his illiteracy. Thus they believe that the works could have been created by multiple people.

There is no concrete evidence that “X” ever commissioned a portrait and there is no written description of his physical appearance.

Whose identity are we talking about?

Answer

William Shakespeare

The Cobbe Portrait (1610), The Chandos Portrait(early 1600s) and the Droeshout Portrait (1622); three of the most prominent of the reputed portraits of William Shakespeare.

Savitri Devi Mukherji was the pseudonym of the Greek-French writer Maximiani Portas. She was a prominent proponent of Hinduism and “X” thus mixing the two ideologies and proclaiming that “Y” has been sent by GOD and to be an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. She believed “Y” was a sacrifice for humanity which would lead to the end of the Kali Yuga induced by the powers of evil. Her works were mainly in support for Hindu religion, nationalism and independence, and to rally resistance to the spread of Christianity and Islam in India.

A very controversial figure, she drew a lot of flak for linking Hindu gods like Lord Krishna and Lord Ram, the origins of Greek civilization and occultism to “X”. Interestingly her accounts during her visits to India state that “X” was worshipped as a Hindu God by many elite

households in Calcutta.

ID “X” and “Y”.

Answer

“X” - Nazism “Y”-

“X” whose name in English translates to “the one who yawns” was a prominent Apache leader who fought against the Mexican and the American armies. Considered to be one of the greatest symbols of Native American resistance in the history of the United States, he was famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from capture.

One legend about “X” relates to an incident in one of the hills of Mexico. It states that “X” and his followers entered a cave, and the U.S. soldiers waited outside the cave entrance for him, but he never came out. Later it was heard that “X” was spotted outside, nearby.

“X” became well-known worldwide after its usage in a (in)famous incident that garnered a lot of media attention and controversy.

Who is “X” and what well-known incident are we talking about ??

Answer

“X” is Geronimo

Geronimo was also used as a code-name for Osama bin Laden during the raid when he was killed by US special forces in 2011. The usage of Geronimo to refer to bin Laden was condemned by many and hence was controversial.

Connect these pictures to a specific incident.

Answer

John Lennon’s Assassination

Annie Leibovitz- Last photo shoot of John Lennon(for the cover of Rolling Stones Magazine)

Mark Chapman had a copy of this at the time of murder and had written “This is my statement”, signing it Holden Caulfield on the back.

Dakota Building, NYC. Place where he died

Mark David Chapman

Lennon wall, Prague.

Final Score