CQC Informals

By Atulaa Krishnamurthy4th March, 2012

Hi!

• 1st year, BA LLB (Hons.), NLSIU Bangalore.• Former School Co-ordinator of CQC :P• Will always be a school quizzer at heart.• This quiz will have 2 LVCs, 1 SVC, and 2 Infinite

Pounce rounds.• Quizmaster’s decision will be final.• Guess away.

LVC 1

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Answer

Titles based on Shakespearean works or phrases

Infinite Pounce- 1

• +10 for every right answer• No negatives• +15/-10 on pounce

1.This aspect of a certain entity is explained away through many anecdotes, a few of which are as follows.• As immediate replacement for a broken feather pen • As a result of being struck by an axe; an injury which

was accepted as a mark of respect for the weapon• As a weapon to slash ____ in two, as punishment for

laughing at the entity involved.What are these explanations for?

• Explanations for Ganesha’s broken tusk.

2.

• This cricketer’s middle name is Ignatius. He played for MCC in10 first class games. At Lord’s in 1899 , he took 7/61 against Cambridgeshire and two years later he carried his bat in an innings against Leceistershire for 32. Shown below is the picture of his statue standing in his birthplace Edinburgh. Name the person who could never achieve even a fraction of the fame in cricket that he achieved in another field?

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.

3

In the mid 19th Century, during a boxing match, sponges were a common ringside accessory. When a boxer was too beaten up to continue fighting, his manager would hand him a sponge with which to mop up his face and other injuries. Sponges soon gave way to something else, and this gave rise to an idiom.

What idiom?

“Throwing in the towel”

4. Where and of whom?

5.

Gumnami Baba lived at Ram Bhavan in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, at around 1985. He was popularly perceived to be an alias for someone else, who was assumed dead. The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry was formed to look into the matter, and it held that the Baba was not the person people perceived him to be, for want of clinching evidence. However, it did not completely deny it either, saying there was a similarity in the handwriting. Who is the person who was assumed to be dead?

Subhash Chandra Bose

6.

Kaspar Hauser was a German who lived for around twenty years in the nineteenth century. He carried a letter in 1828, which said he had to be educated in the basics of life, including religion. He is an example of a popular and fascinating phenomenon which has been oft repeated in fiction, and has had claims of having happened in reality. What phenomenon?

A feral child, or a wild child

7.2001- Otis2002- Tahti2003- Moses2004- All in Mondeville2005- Bruno2006- Mops2007- All in Mid Road Gang and Yuki2008- Lucy2009- Dug2010- Boss2011- ___________? And what is this a list of?

Palm Dog Awardees.

The recipient for 2011 was Uggie from The Artist.

8.

The New Journal of Physics, in an edition published a year ago, had an article by Dr. David Quere and Dr. Clanet about a certain event in 1997, which was supposed to have “defied physics”. The article said that the phenomenon was perfectly in consonance with the laws of physics, explaining it, and saying that its “snail shelled trajectory” helped it, and that it could be repeated again. What am I talking about?

Roberto Carlos’ Free Kick

Not my question, obviously.

9. Connect

Rashomon Effect

10.

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a physics professor at NYU, submitted an article called "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity“ to an academic journal called Social Text. This episode is now referred to as the Sokal affair. What did Alan Sokal do, that reflected so badly on the journal?

Sokal’s article was a hoax.

The whole thing was an experiment to test the publication's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether such a journal would "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it (a) sounded good and (b) flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."

11. Connect. Non exhaustive.

Countries with more than one capital

Benin, Bolivia, Chile, Cote d’Ivoire, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania,

Western Sahara are the countries which currently have more than one capital.

12.

Initially when X-McConnell sponsored this, it was commonly known as the X. In 2002, the Y Group became the title sponsor, but chose to retain X as part of the title. So this entity is now known as the YX.

X and Y?

X- Booker, Y- Man

SVC

• 7 Slides• Non exhaustive, finite.• Points on respective slides.

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English words derived from Tamil.

Infinite Pounce II

• Same rules as the last round.

13.

The nomenclature of this novel has more than one explanation according to fans. The titular character in his childhood was said to have nearly drowned in a river, but was saved by a mysterious woman, believed to be the spirit of the river. The epithet that arose after this incident is said to be the reason behind the novel. Another explanation is that the title of the novel refers to the author himself, as many instances in the work are inspired by real life occurrences in his life. Name the novel.

Ponniyin Selvan.

Meaning ‘The Son of Ponni’. The mysterious woman is said to be Kaveri/Ponni (a tributary of the river). Kalki Krishnamurthy’s father, a munsif, was called Ponni Iyer by those who knew him.

14.This was a popular riddle in the early 19th century, whose answer is so well known today that it is no longer asked as a riddle, but taught to children as a rhyme. There are theories that the title character of the rhyme is slang for a drink of brandy, and that it refers to King Richard III of England. However, the title character is mostly commonly portrayed as a/an ____, which is mentioned nowhere in the rhyme, but is in fact the answer to the riddle.

Humpty Dumpty

15.

• In mid-2010, San Francisco- based X hired Davis Elen Advertising to plan their marketing campaign. As part of this, the firm stuck fake $25,000 bills advertising X’s product ‘Y: Las Vegas’ on the sidewalks of San Francisco. This “guerilla marketing” attempt drew flak from the city attorney’s office, who deemed it an ‘illegal and actionable marketing technique’. The advertising company, however, took full responsibility for the campaign, and X’s online popularity remained intact.

• X and Y?

X- Zynga, Y- Mafia Wars

16.When this film released in 1972, numerous real life acts of violence in Britain were attributed to it by perpetrators and their lawyers. Thus the film’s director asked the production house to withdraw the film from the country, and it was not shown in Britain legally for the next 27 years, until the director’s death. After his death, it came to light that in addition to the negative publicity, the director’s family had received death threats following its release.Name the film and its director.

Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

17.

X was an electrical engineer from IIT-Madras, he first worked for the civil aviation department of The GoI, before working with Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore as General Manager (Research and Development). During this stint, he was instrumental in the development of Electronic Voting Machines in the country. He is well known and respected in another field altogether. X?

Sujatha Rangarajan

18. Connect

These are the only five people to win acting Oscars for non-English speaking roles.

19.

This author has written over 30 plays, 4 screenplays, numerous short story, Punch articles and poem collections before one particular work of his in a different genre altogether, overshadowed the rest of his oeuvre. Its roaring success was resented not only by him, but by the person who served as inspiration for this work as well. His later works were panned, as one critic mentioned, his lead characters were merely ‘_____ grown up’.

AA Milne. The work was ‘Winnie the Pooh’.

20.

Kamini Kaushal is an Indian actress who won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1955 for her role in Biraj Bahu. She is said to have made another contribution to the world of Hindi cinema. What is this contribution?

She is said to have posed for the Filmfare statuette, first designed by N.G. Phansare along with ToI’s Walter Langhammer.

21. Connect

These are tactics against a hostile takeover of one company by another. Will explain.

22.

The name of this band stems from a conversation among its band members where they said that a supergroup containing themselves would go down like a ‘____ balloon’, a British idiom for disastrous results. The first word of the idiom dropped a letter to avoid mispronunciation, and the second word was changed to a synonym for a large balloon. Its members felt the name struck the right balance between ‘heavy and light, combustibility and grace’. Name the band.

Led Zeppelin

23.

The caduceus is the staff of the Roman God Mercury, the messenger of the Gods and the protector of merchants, gamblers, liars and thieves. Consequently, it has connotations involving commerce, negotiation and money-making. It is also used as a symbol representing printing, as an offshoot of Mercury’s skills in writing and eloquence. However, today the symbol is most recognized in another field, mistaken for another ancient symbol, the rod of Asclepius. Which field do we associate the caduceus with today?

The symbol for medicine

24.

The White Man’s Burden

LVC 2

• Same rules as last time.• 12 slides.• Non exhaustive.

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These are all movies of the ‘found footage’ genre, where is film is presented as being true, pieced together from purportedly discovered

film and video recordings.