This TV show concept was first introduced in Japan in 2001, where it was called X. From it here, it was adopted in the UK in 2005 by the name Y. In 2009, the show was taken to the US under the name Z, where it became a runaway success.
The names of all the three shows contain the name of an apex predator/creature, which refers to position of the panelists on the show, and how they are at the end looking at their own interests as well.
Can you guess which show am I talking about?
Category: Entertainment
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Clara de la Rocha was a noted colonel in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). She is known for capturing a power station, to let the rebels attack a base at night.
Which famous movie character did Clara inspire?
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The Bene Gesserit is a psuedo-religious group from the Dune anthology. They are know for their training their bodies to gain superior combat skills, precise physiological control, and are highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
They went on to become an inspiration for another similar group seen in a movie launched in 1977. This group became so popular that people across the world identify this as their own religion. Which group am I talking about?
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X is a group started in 2009, and has 5 members, a bearded guy, a tall guy, purple hoser & two twins. The group is mostly active in sports-adjacent content & holds 17 Guinness World Records.
Their website says “Five ____, a camera & a friends bet. That’s how X was born”.
Can you identify the group?
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While Jet-setting refers to luxury travel on a plane, X is a phenomenon of visiting locations from movies & TV shows. This includes Star Wars fans flocked to Death Valley to see the backdrop for Tatooine or visiting Four Seasons, Maui featured in White Lotus.
Can you identify the term X?
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X was born to Bardock & Gine and is married with two kids. He is a World Champion Martial Artist & his only known weakness is hunger.
X’s story is based on 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West & the name of the series is inspired by a Bruce Lee movie.
Identify X & the series he appears in.
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Tudum is an official fan site for a company where it provides news, exclusive interviews & behind the scene videos.
The company also hosts a Tudum Festival, an annual in-person event for their fans.
Can you deduce which company behind these initiatives?
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This product was invented in 1874 by CF Bennett for protecting private parts of male cyclists, while he was working for a company now known as Bike Athletic.
Over the years, this product has broken out of its niche usage & has become a sex symbol of sorts.
Which product am I talking about?
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A question in the spirit of the recently concluded Academy Awards…
Which of these actors have never won an Oscar?
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International Women’s Day Special:
The Bechdel test is a test to measure the representation of women in film and other fiction. It has three tests against which movies are judged:
1. The movie has to have at least two women in it
2. They should talk to each other
What is the third criteria?
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On March 5, 2023, Nickelodeon presented its second-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The first one was awarded in 2014 to Dan Schneider, for his work creating and producing multiple shows at Nickelodeon.
Who won last year?
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On February 25, 1998, world-famous opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti was all set to perform the aria Nessun dorma from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot at the 1998 Grammy Awards. That evening, after the show had already begun, he became too ill to perform as planned (which was frustratingly common with Pavarotti — he was called the “king of cancellations”). The producers of the show were desperate to find a way to fill Pavarotti’s time slot and approached X, who was also scheduled to perform one of their own wildly iconic hits that night.
X asked to listen to Pavarotti’s rehearsal once and agreed on the spot to perform in Pavarotti’s stead, with almost none of the meticulous prep that a performance this complex would’ve required – and they absolutely nailed it. Over a billion people worldwide watched the performance, and X was met with an instant standing ovation. X went on to record the aria and perform it live several more times in later years, most notably for Pope Francis in 2015.
Who is X?
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Which website is famous for showing images of dogs when you end up clicking on a webpage with an error?
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In 2003, electronic games company Radica released X, a handheld game device which is a hardware-based offshoot of a 1996 website with the same name that itself is, in essence, a computerized version of a much older, free-form party game. X (both the device and the website) has gained cult status in certain circles for being “scarily accurate”, owing to the way it was designed – the website is built upon an early AI neural network that actually enables it to learn and fine-tune its strategy as it plays, and the handheld device is loaded with a smaller version of the neural network that limits its ability to “learn”, but is very accurate regardless.
What are we talking about here?
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X is a 2010 bestselling fiction book, the fifth in its series, that edged out former US President George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points (which was released on the same day) in sales in its first week of publication.
What book is this?
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Can you identify the TV series from the image below?
Show AnswerThe Big Bang Theory. Here's the OG version.
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X is:
-the name of author Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, now a major hotel and resort, located right next to the aptly named James Bond Beach,
-the name of the first James Bond film to not be based on any of Fleming’s James Bond novels, named after the estate,
-part of the name of the videogame based on the film, often regarded as one of the greatest videogames ever made.
Name X.
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The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act introduced in 1998 increased copyright duration for works of corporate authorship to 95 years from publication or 120 years after creation, whichever end is earlier.
The law was seen as targeted step to by a corporation from letting one of their biggest characters from entering into the public domain. So much so that the law is sometimes referred to as _____ _____ Protection Act – named after the character.
In 2024, this character has finally entered public domain.
Name the character & the corporation behind it.
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This is the floor plan from which TV series?
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While there were multiple instances of this in Feb & March 2019, the first time it happened for a full day was on 27th March 2019. This streak was lost on 1st April 2019 with a release of a diss track named ‘Congratulations’. It was regained again on 14th April 2019 and has been ongoing since then [as of Oct 2023].
What am I talking about?