CHEMATHLON 2k17

FINAL

Rules 5 Rounds. 50 Questions

H a-J a –B a –R a-L a (5)

Clockwise (16)

Write Brothers (5)

Anti Clockwise (16)

Thematic (8)

H a J a B a R a L a

5 Questions

5 points each

You can stake any number of answers

+10/-5 on each stake

1 The memorial – a naked

birdman made by the sculptor, Jacob Epstein was unveiled in 1914, it had to be covered up because of complaints about the figure’s exposed genitals. It is regularly covered in red lipstick kisses and is both a lovers’ rendezvous and a rallying point against homophobia.

Whose memorial ?

2 The tree that somehow

survives in the desert, and much of its material suggests an attempt, within the aridity, to quench a profoundly spiritual thirst.

Why did this biblical tree due to a 1987 endeavour of an Irishman?

3

"The problem is that most of the ones who copied me copied me wrongly. They forgot to include the attacking principles that my __________included. I had Picchi as a sweeper, yes, but I also had Facchetti, the first full-back to score as many goals as a forward“

Who speaking on What ?

4

Born James Howlett in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, during the late 1880s, purportedly to rich farm owners John and Elizabeth Howlett, though he is actually the illegitimate son of the Howletts' groundskeeper, Thomas ______.

He was enrolled into the Canadian military during WW-I and later moved to Japan.

Why is his surname topical ?

5

Which trophy named after a country and What sport?

Answers….

1 The memorial – a naked

birdman made by the sculptor, Jacob Epstein was unveiled in 1914, it had to be covered up because of complaints about the figure’s exposed genitals. It is regularly covered in red lipstick kisses and is both a lovers’ rendezvous and a rallying point against homophobia.

Whose memorial ?

Oscar Wilde

2 The tree that somehow

survives in the desert, and much of its material suggests an attempt, within the aridity, to quench a profoundly spiritual thirst.

Why did this biblical tree due to a 1987 endeavour of an Irishman?

Joshua Tree Album by U2

3

"The problem is that most of the ones who copied me copied me wrongly. They forgot to include the attacking principles that my __________included. I had Picchi as a sweeper, yes, but I also had Facchetti, the first full-back to score as many goals as a forward“

Who speaking on What ?

Helenio Herreira on Catenaccio

4

Born James Howlett in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, during the late 1880s, purportedly to rich farm owners John and Elizabeth Howlett, though he is actually the illegitimate son of the Howletts' groundskeeper, Thomas ______.

He was enrolled into the Canadian military during WW-I and later moved to Japan.

Why is his surname topical ?

Logan

5

Which trophy named after a country and What sport?

America’s Cup, Yachting

Clockwise Dry

16 Questions

Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce

+10 on Bounce.

+10/-10 on Pounce.

Part Points are QM’s discretion

1 This is Julia Roberts from the

movie Hook, portraying X, who was a fairy if the original

literary source is to be believed. However, following the characterisation of X in a cult

1953 Disney production, X has been recognised to be a

_________ who are benign, mischievous, short of stature

and attractively childlike; fond of dancing and gather outdoors

in huge numbers to dance or  sometimes wrestle.

FITB and Identify X.

Pixie, Tinker Bell

2 This kind of  floor plan is

common in Persian and Mughal architecture where the plan is

divided into 8 chambers surrounding a central room. The name of this style is similar to the name of the palace on the right where one of Amir Khausrau’s epics may have

been set. The translated version of the first

episode of this literary work has possibly given rise to an English

word in the 18th century. What is the good word and

what does the style of architecture or name of the

palace signify ?

Serendipity, Eight Heavens or Eight levels of Paradise in Islam(Hasht Behest)

3 Konigsberg stretched across both banks of the

river Pregl, and it included two islands in the middle of the river. Seven bridges connected these islands and the rest of the city, and for years, people wondered if they could walk

across all seven bridges without crossing any of them more than once.

Then, in 1736, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler showed it was impossible.

Why is Euler’s solution significant and What is the name of the present day seaport where this

is set ?

3

Kaliningrad, First theorem of Graph Theory

4

In approximately 1590, the word began appearing in the English language as ________meaning "stupid person, slow bird“.

Contrary to popular beliefs it has got nothing to do with well endowed women.

The term came into reckoning during WW-I, for a sinister usage.

Which two word term am I looking at ?

Booby Trap

5

Following his sudden retirement from Test

Match cricket, he was able to stake his claim

for the second position in a

particular list of cricketers, where, the

topper, till date remains a class apart.

What list ?

Adam Voges Retired With Second Best Test Batting Average of All Time Behind Don Bradman

6 The Biafra Story was written

by a journalist about the brutal civil war in Nigeria was

published as a paperback by Penguin Books in late

1969. The book sold very few copies and so with the arrival

of the 1970s the then 31-year-old freelance

journalist found himself both out of work and "flat broke".  Which project did he

undertake to mitigate his financial crisis ?

7 “That was something I did in a hurry, because

I had to get to a meeting with the producers in twenty minutes. I just happened to have little white, price tag stickers and I thought I'd use them as gun shots across the screen. We'd

have…….., at which point blood comes down onscreen.”

Maurice Binder was describing the genesis of a particular sequence which has been enacted

by seven people technically though only six have been eligible so far to do so.

What ?

Gun Barrel Sequence in James Bond Films

8

Ted Nash, an American Jazz Saxophonist and

composer recently won the Grammy for “Best

Instrumental Composition” for one of the themes in this

album. What was the

destined to be Indian connection of

this award winning composition ?

The winning piece was a transcribed version of Nehru’s “A tryst with destiny”

9 Medical indications of this endocrine chemical

includes contraception, hormone replacement, prostate & breast cancer, bulimia and many

more. Excessive weight gain and deep vein thrombosis

are some of its feared complications. However, following the recent activities of a JU

alumnus, this has been associated with causing a malodorous rib cage and even, blindness.

What has lead to this “medical breakthrough” ?

Estrogen by Anupam Roy

10

Gurushikhar holds the honour of being not only the highest peak of Mount Abu, but the whole of

Aravalli mountain range, situated at a height  of 1722 meters from the

sea level.Which “guru”, son of Atri and Anusuya has been honoured by this nomenclature ? (Picture Next Slide)

Dattatreya

11

The building, built in neo-classical style and once, a citadel of power,

was turned into the Museum of ____________ following a major

turnaround in the fate of the country where this is located.

FITB and identify the last resident of this building. (Picture

Next Slide)

Revolution, Fulgenico Batista

12

Led by photographer and installation artist Leena

Kejriwal, around 40 students from mainstream schools as well as NGOs such as Apne

Aap and Hamari Muskan have been going around the

city, expressing their thoughts through images on

walls.

What awareness campaign are they a part of which has been aptly titled

“Project Missing” ?

Girl Trafficking

13 New York fine arts foundry Polich

Tallix was handed over the job of combining digital technology as well

as the old-world craft of lost wax casting to recreate something in 2016.

This prompted Forbes Magazine to come up with the headline : How The __________Got A __________This Year.

What ?

How the Oscars got a Facelift this Year

14 Connect the following entities

Time Magazine’s X-marked covers

15

These two gentlemen, Heng Kim Song and Sandeep Adhwaryu

took the social media by a storm due to their creative inputs in their

respective fields in 2014 and 2017. If the man from Singapore, now

settled in New York was the aggressor, the Indian came up with a

fitting reply.What was the hullaballoo all about ?

16 "Archist City” series reinterprets the expressive

language and aesthetics of prominent artists as built form. Which two artists could have designed the houses at the bottom ?

Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp

Scores

Write Brothers

5 visuals.

5 Points each.

5 bonus for a Full house

Which organisation ?

Trademark for whom (image on the right should help) ?

Which Venue ?

Coat of Arms for Kingdom of ?

Which Indian state insignia ?

Answers

Which organisation ?

Anushilan Samity

Trademark for whom (image on the right should help) ?

Dutch East India Company

Which Venue ?

Highbury

Coat of Arms for Kingdom of ?

Cambodia

Which Indian state insignia ?

Manipur

Scores

Anti-Clockwise Dry

16 Questions

Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce.

+10 on Bounce.

+10/-10 on Pounce.

Part Points are QM’s discretion.

17

Megasthenes visited India in the third century BC, after Alexander's invasion of

India, and gives a detailed account of what he saw in “Indica”. Here he mentions King Sandrocottus as one of the most

powerful kings of Gangahriday . Why did Dr. Kakali Ghoshdastidar become

interested regarding Sandrocottus following a research paper by a team from

IIT-KGP in mid 2016 ?

Sandrocottus was Chandraketu

18 Connect (non-exhaustive)

Types of Pasta

19 This unlikely pairing with Ali Zafar is for a

Stephen Frears directed upcoming British-American biographical film, based on a book

(of the same name) by an ABP correspondent. Interestingly, the leading lady has already

received an Oscar nomination for portraying the same character in a different movie in

1997 with a scandalous storyline. Which upcoming movie and Who is the

female lead in the much awaited movie?

Victoria and Abdul, Judi Dench

20

X was working on editing a magazine on decorating shop

windows. A figure he had built out of metal parts for a shop display,

reportedly inspired him to create Y. Critics postulate that Y was a representation of the industrial workers in the United States of

America of late 19th century.Who are X and Y ?

X-L. Frank Baum, Y-Tinman

21 In 1993, a small press in Fargo, North Dakota published a

textbook called Teaching With ________ ____ _______

The authors reached out to X directly and told him how they'd been working with children with learning disabilities,

and used ______ ___ _______to illustrate the lessons.

When they asked to turn it into a textbook, he said yes, and 2500 copies were printed. Of course this made them

extremely valuable: in 2009, just one copy sold for $10,000.

What medium was used by these authors to teach children with learning disabilities ?

Calvin and Hobbes

22

A London theatre Rio Cinema – located in Dalston – took advantage of a recent event which made headlines, by playing a trick on its customers during the Monday night show.

This was much to the amusement of those in attendance.

What did they do ?

Played the opening sequence of La La Land before Moonlight screening

23 Dancehall is an up-tempo musical style derived

from reggae and is hugely popular in Jamaica. It has been described as a “space for the cultural creation and dissemination of symbols and ideologies that reflect the lived realities of its adherents, particularly those from the inner

cities of Jamaica”. One of its more popular tracks inspired

something in the 21st century, that has captured the imagination of the entire world.

How ?

Bolt’s Lightning

24 This is a postal stamp(picture next slide)

from Macau, depicting a Chinese legend, where a turtle like the one below crept out of

the Yellow River about 4000 years ago. It looks like it is riddled with spots, or bullet

holes. However the bullet holes have a peculiar arrangement which if carefully observed is

commemorating something which have appeared as symbols in works of art, over

centuries. What is being talked about and what is the

Chinese name for the variant seen on this stamp ?

Magic Square, Lo Shu (smallest Magic Square with a 3X3 grid)

25How can you connect these three with a medical miracle

taking place at the outskirts of Bombay Fourty years ago ?

Nirupa Roy getting back her eyesight in Amar Akbar Antony

26 The man in the driver’s suit was the subject

of a documentary in 2015 which was a British entry in the Cannes Film festival.

The film focusses on a project that he undertook at the pinnacle of his prowess in

1970 and has been titled : X- The Man and Y

Who is the driver and What is the apt title of the movie ?

Steve McQueen, The Man and Le Mans

27 Mahinder Pal Singh, a twenty-

something resident of

Nankhana Sahib (the Gurdwara in picture) recently shot into fame owing to a rare

occurrence. Why ?

First Sikh to be called for Pakistan National Cricket team camp.

28

A team gets their nickname from this animal whose young ones are often referred to as ‘joeys’.

Which team and What nickname ?

Australian National Rugby Team, Wallabies

29 Hugh Cairns, one of Britain's very first

neurosurgeons, was concerned about head injuries to motorcyclists and crash helmets before World War Two.

 In October 1941, then, consulting neurosurgeon to the Army, he published his initial results in the British Medical Journal. The article was entitled "Head Injuries in Motor-cyclists - the importance of the crash helmet“

Which event six years back acted as a catalyst for his research ?

T. E. Lawrence’s Death

30

The graph shows the various mood swings of a fictional character, which can be linked to a famous dialogue, which if described in biochemical terms would translate into a state of Serotonin abundance in the Neuronal Junctions of our body.

What ?

31What mythological name was given to this Indrajaal Comics adaptation of “Hulk” in Bengali ?

Ghatotkoch

32

The tradesmen XI was picked by Steven Lynch, a columnist of ESPN Cric -Info. They are :

1.Alistair Cook2.Mark Butcher3.Vijay Merchant4.Nari Contractor5.Seymour Nurse6.Bob Barber7.Bert Ironmonger8.Lionel Baker9.Ian Bishop10.Farookh Engineer11.Gregory Pope

Which two umpires, according to Lynch were ‘eligible’ to officiate the game ?

Piloo Reporter, David Shepherd

Scores

Acknowledgements

Jadavpur University, Department Of Chemical Engineering

Surya Sekhar Chakraborty Bedbyas Datta Bikashkali Kar Sumantra Sarathi Datta Scorer Audience, teams and all those who

turned up.

Thematic Written 8 QuestionsPop Culture in the timeline of

Cold War Each correct Answer has 5 points. Half points are QM’s prerogative. Full house will ensure a bonus of

10 points.

1949Which book ?

The definitive dystopian novel is set in a totalitarian future England where reality is controlled through censorship and surveillance. An anti-authoritarian, anti-Soviet socialist, the author inadvertently ended up influencing the West’s own propaganda efforts and shaped much of the Cold War’s anti-socialist imagery.

1949What happened ?

It fed into the U.S.S.R.’s fascination with slavery, civil rights, and, later, African independence, all of which would figure prominently in its propaganda efforts at the height of the Cold War, putting the Soviets on the right side of history, though often for the wrong reasons.

1957Which film ? It’s a world where people are sold all

kinds of crap that keeps them from thinking, and technology isn’t being used to build a new world but to distract people from the current one.

1958Which achievement ?

A trove of documents declassified in 2014 confirmed what had long been suspected: The CIA had undertaken an elaborate campaign to ensure X’s win and had printed the first Russian edition of X’s banned novel, Y.

1961Whose debut ?

Pitted against Central European dictator Victor Von Doom, they are inseparable from their Cold War origins, but even in 1961, they represented an era of national ideals and scientific wonder that was soon to vanish.

1962Which classic thriller ? Deeply, uniquely

strange, envisioning the Cold War as a dream state, full of bizarre moments and creepy subtexts. It stokes the most irrational fears of Commie infiltration, only to use them as a corrosive.

1967Who are being talked about?

They were first introduced as transparent stand-ins for the popular image of the Soviet Union: totalitarian, scheming, and stuck in a diplomatic deadlock with the United Federation Of Planets.

1975Which brand ? To commemorate the first joint Soviet-American

spaceflight, the Soviet Union joined forces with Philip Morris to produce a brand of Cigarettes which stood for a brief promise of collaboration in the midst of the Cold War.

Answers to Follow…

1949Which book ?

The definitive dystopian novel is set in a totalitarian future England where reality is controlled through censorship and surveillance. An anti-authoritarian, anti-Soviet socialist, the author inadvertently ended up influencing the West’s own propaganda efforts and shaped much of the Cold War’s anti-socialist imagery.

1984

1949What happened ?

It fed into the U.S.S.R.’s fascination with slavery, civil rights, and, later, African independence, all of which would figure prominently in its propaganda efforts at the height of the Cold War, putting the Soviets on the right side of history, though often for the wrong reasons.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was translated and published in the Soviet Union

1957Which film ? It’s a world where people are sold all

kinds of crap that keeps them from thinking, and technology isn’t being used to build a new world but to distract people from the current one.

A King in New York

1958Which achievement ?

A trove of documents declassified in 2014 confirmed what had long been suspected: The CIA had undertaken an elaborate campaign to ensure X’s win and had printed the first Russian edition of X’s banned novel, Y.

Boris Pasternak winning the Nobel for Literature

1961Whose debut ?

Pitted against Central European dictator Victor Von Doom, they are inseparable from their Cold War origins, but even in 1961, they represented an era of national ideals and scientific wonder that was soon to vanish.

Fantastic Four

1962Which classic thriller ? Deeply, uniquely

strange, envisioning the Cold War as a dream state, full of bizarre moments and creepy subtexts. It stokes the most irrational fears of Commie infiltration, only to use them as a corrosive.

The Manchurian Candidate

1967Who are being talked about?

They were first introduced as transparent stand-ins for the popular image of the Soviet Union: totalitarian, scheming, and stuck in a diplomatic deadlock with the United Federation Of Planets.

Introduction of Klingons

1975Which brand ?

To commemorate the first joint Soviet-American spaceflight, the Soviet Union joined forces with Philip Morris to produce a brand of Cigarettes which stood for a brief promise of collaboration in the midst of the Cold War.

Apollo-Soyuz

Scores

…Mischief Managed !