FK QC

DEC 15

Round 1

Dries

+10 per correct answer

+10/-10 on pounce

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Cup-tied is an adjective, used primarily in association football, to describe a player who is ineligible to play in a knockout cup competition after transferring from another club during that competition.

However this is not a rule set in stone.

Ernie Taylor and Stan Crowther were the two most formidable exceptions to this rule.

Which club were they allowed to play for and why?

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Club: Manchester united

Reason: Munich Air disaster

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15-panel comic was created by Bill Watterson for

France's 2015 Angoulême International Comics Festival

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The two areas in which this phrase is most often used are German Opera and American Sport.

The musical connection is with the operatic role of Brunnhilde in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung. All the early printed references to the phrase come from US sports. Alternatively credited to Yogi Berra.

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It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.

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The word originates from a mid 19th century dialect meaning ‘to soak a wooden vessel’. Since WW1 the sense of the term has extended to cover a particular activity, which is the most familiar context.

Used these days in reference to making a sense of investments or watching a number of TV show episodes.

It’s a synonym of extremity in an endeavour.

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Binge

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Bermuda

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A bear market is when the economy is bad, recession is looming and stock prices are falling.

A bull market is when everything in the economy is great and stocks are rising.

X are afraid to lose anything. Their fear overrides their need to make profits and so they turn only to money-market securities or get out of the markets entirely.

Y are high-risk investors looking for the one big score in a short period of time. They buy on hot tips and invest in companies without doing their due diligence.

"Bulls make money, bears make money, but Y just get slaughtered!"

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X = Chickens

Y = Pigs

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In Voluptas Mors

(English title: “Voluptuous Death”),

a surrealistic portrait by

Salvador Dalí.

Which movie poster incorporates

this artwork in it?

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Silence of the lambs

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A Einstein-Rosen bridge, better known as X is a hypothetical topological feature of space-time that would essentially be a shortcut through space-time.

The concept of X is used in a very recent movie.

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Wormhole

end of round 1

Round 2

DC comic parody/tribute to movies

+10 per correct answer

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end of round 2

round 3

Dries

+10 per direct

+10/-10 on a pounce

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The earliest recorded use of this "word" is said to have been made in the BBC radio series "It's that Man Again"

This word was added to the US English version of the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001. The definition given as:

"Expressing frustration at the realisation that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has done or said something foolish.

Also (usu. mildly derogatory): implying that another person has said or done something foolish."

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D'oh

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The story being the origin of the name of this band:

When the band's lead guitarist Jeff Beck and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle were discussing the idea of forming a group, Moon joked, "It would probably go over like a XZ" and Entwistle replied, "A XY!"

The phrase "XY" has commonly been used to describe an ill conceived idea or one whose failure is both predictable and inevitable.

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The mail reason for this arrangement being popular is aesthetics. The positioning of the primary aspects of this order is symmetrical and the human brain tends to react to symmetry in a positive way.

In a way, it looks like a smile, which is always a welcome sight.

Another reason is that the key details of the 'thing' are highlighted in this way.

Some theories link this arrangement to JFK and Lincoln but there is no proof to support them.

What am I talking about?

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10:10 arrangement

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Where might you find this image?/ give funda

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Painting at the NASA Wallops flight facility.

Depicting Tipu Sultan using 'Mysore rockets' in warfare.

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The origin of a phrase.

Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia 77 AD translates thus:

After the defeat of that mighty monarch, Mithridates, Gnaeus Pompeius found in his private cabinet a recipe for an antidote in his own handwriting; it was to the following effect: Take two dried walnuts, two figs and twnty leaves of rue. Pound them all together, with the addition of X. If a person takes this mixture fasting, he will be proof against all poisons for that day.

Threats involving the poison were thus to be taken X, and therefore less seriously.

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With a grain of salt.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson was approached by ______ for a specific assignment in late 2012.

"Originally, we just planned to ask him for help in making the science realistic, but when we spoke to him on the phone he also asked if we'd like him to find a real life star system close to the intended one"

Tyson determined that the 'real' thing is the Corvus constellation, about 27.1 light years from Earth, orbiting the red dwarf LHS 2520, a star smaller than our sun.

What was the assignment?

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To find Krypton for Man of Steel.

He found a star 27 light years ago because in the comic books, Super Man is 27.

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Id & where is the picture from?

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Text

end of round 3

round 4

short connects

each slide is a question

+15 per answer

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Peter Jackson

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end of round 4

round 5

famous lines from songs/books

+5/-5 per answer

1. "I hope I die before I get old"

3. "I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I wanna destroy passerby"

2. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

5. “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around 
Since I was born
And now it's all right, I'm ok
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand 
The new york times' effect on man"

4. “Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people."

6. "Not all those who wander are lost"

7. “It was a pleasure to burn."

8. “Please allow me to introduce myself

 I'm a man of wealth and taste

I've been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man's soul and faith.

9. "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

11. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

10. "It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart"

answers follow

1. My generation - The Who

2. Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone - JK Rowling

3. Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols

4. Dune - Frank Herbert

5. Staying Alive - Bee Gees

6. Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien

7. Farenhiet 451 - Ray Bradbury

8. Sympathy for the devil - Rolling Stones

9. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

10. Thriller - Michael Jackson

11. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 

end of round 5