IISc Quiz Number 8

Format

• 30 questions (Modified) Infinite Bounce. Reverse after question 15 (or approx. midway).

• 3 Short Visual Connects (at the start, middle and end).

• Scoring for SVCs will be shown when they arrive. For the rest of the quiz, it is +10 for a complete answer and +5 if the answer is satisfactorily incomplete.

1. +25 / -10

2. +25 / -10

3. +20 / -10

4. +20 / -10

5. +15 / -5

6. +15 / -5

7. +10/-5

8. +10/ -5

And finally back to 1….

+5 / last guess

Fogg’s Journey Around The World In 80 Days

1. Commissariat Road in Bangalore, which runs between Lifestyle and Garuda Mall is probably one of the only roads in India to have a particular distinction. What?

Slide Left Blank

Right-Side Driving

2. Additional features of what?

1.A = Auto-Jack2.B = Belt Tires3.C = Cutter Blades4.D = Deflector5.E = Evening (Illuminating) Eye6.F = Frogger Mode7.G = Go Homing Robot8.H = Homing Device

Slide Left Blank

Mach Five Car

3. An actor and his son. This was the actor’s last lead role and his son’s first credited role. Id the movie. / Id the common surname.

Slide Left Blank

4. Id the ship

Slide Left Blank

5. X and Y were blood brothers. However, as time went by, X and Y began to view each other as rivals. When Y became the ruler of X’s tribe, X led a coup. Y was betrayed by his followers, whom X executed on the spot. When X offered to renew his brotherhood with Y, Y said that ‘just as there is room in the sky for one sun, there was room for only one ______ lord.’ Id X and Y.

Slide Left Blank

X = TemujinY = Jamuqa

6. Armalcolite was a mineral discovered in July 1969. Since then it has been discovered in:

a. Smoky Butte, Garfield County, Montana, USA in lamproite dikes and plugs

b. Disko Island, (Greenland) in native iron

c. Pripyat Swell (around the Pripyat River, Ukraine) in trachybasalt; and

d. South African kimberlites.

After whom is it named after and why?

Slide Left Blank

Members of the Apollo 11 Mission

• Neil Armstrong• Edwin Aldrin• Michael Collins

7. Connect AND id ALL the places shown on Google Earth.

Slide Left Blank

Google Earth pictures of Bible events• The garden of Eden• Noah’s Ark in the flood• The parting of the Red Sea• The Crucifixion at Calvary

• All books would be part of a series.• To establish more quickly if a series was likely to be successful, the first

several volumes would be published at once. • The books would be written under a pseudonym. • The books would look as much like contemporary adult books as

possible, with similar bindings and type-faces.• The books would be of a predictable length.• Chapters and pages should end mid-situation, to increase the reader's

desire to keep reading.• Each book would begin with a quick recap of all previous books in that

series, in order to promote those books.• Books might also end with a preview of the next volume in the series.• The books would be priced at fifty cents, rather than the more common

75 cents, dollar, or dollar twenty-five.• Characters should not age or marry.

Guidelines for which company?

Slide Left Blank

Stratemeyer Syndicate

• The company which publishes series like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Bobsey Twins, etc.

9. Marin X was a French mathematician, and musician, referred to as the “Father of Acoustics”. During his life he created a list of about 257 special numbers, that are now named after him. The numbers are defined as 2^n – 1. Y is a project to find the largest primed number of the series. As of today, the largest number found by Y is 12,978,189 digits long.

Id X. / Y.

Slide Left Blank

Mersenne (of Mersenne Primes fame)

• Mersenne primes are Mersenne numbers that are also prime.

• As of today, the largest known prime number is a Mersenne prime.

10. Aztec account of what:

When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and _______ and turned to ______. The _____ and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the _____, and the ______ remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the _____ began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but ______ a great _______, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The ______ shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the _____ was tranquil.

Slide Left Blank

The Great Deluge / The Great FloodWhen the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the flood, and the waters remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil.

11. Which country?

Slide Left Blank

Mauritius

12. Id the subject of the biopic. / Id the movie.

Slide Left Blank

13. The X Project is an undertaking in South Africa to bring the X back from extinction and reintroduce it back into its habitat. The project began, when in 1955, Lutz Heck suggested that careful selected breeding, of a similar species, called the Plains Zebra could recreate the X.

However, the project could get underway only in 1980, when it was proved that the X was a subspecies of the Plains Zebra. During March 1987, nine zebras were selected and captured at the Etosha National Park in Namibia. On 24 April1987 these zebras were brought to the specially constructed breeding camp complex at the Nature Conservation farm "Vrolijkheid", near Robertson, South Africa. This marked the start of the X re-breeding project. On 20 January 2005 the most X-like foal was born.

Id X.

Slide Left Blank

Quagga

14. What has been blanked out in the cover (Part points for the name only, if no one gets what has been blanked out)?

Slide Left Blank

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe

15. Trial: The Katzenberger TrialDefendant: Leo KatzenbergerCrime: Breaking the RassenschutzgesetzJudge: Oswald RothaugSentence: Capital Punishment.Date of execution (of Katzenberger): 2 June 1942.

This trial was used by Rothaug in an attempt to publicly demonstrate his affiliations to the Nazi party. However, as the punishment for breaking the Rassenschutzgesetz was imprisonment, Rothaug pronounced the death penalty because a witness testified that Leo Katzenberger broke the law after dark, thus also breaking another law called the Volkschädlingsgesetz, which made it a crime if people would abuse the wartime regulations.

The trial made news in 1947, and the world was reminded of it again in 1961.

How? / Why? / Put Funda(s).

Slide Left Blank

Judgement At NurembergOswald Rothaug was later tried in something called the Judges Trial in Nuremberg. The trial was the main subject of the film Judgement at Nuremberg.

SVC – II

Rules

• 5 slides connected by a THEME.• The list is EXHAUSTIVE!• Scoring will be shown on each slide.• In case you get the THEME, raise your hand

and write down the THEME.

+25 / -10

+20 / -10

+15 / -5

+10 / -5

+5 / last guess

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

• Venus de Milo• Donatello• Raphael • Michelangelo• Leonardo

16. Still from the Star Trek episode Spectre Of The Gun. Id the guy advancing.

Slide Left Blank

Wyatt Earp

17. Bernard Hermann was a famous movie film composer. Some of the movies that he has composed music for include Citizen Kane, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), and many other films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Possibly, his most famous composition is called The Murder. Initially, the director of the movie for which this piece would be a part of the soundtrack wanted there to be no music for that scene, but Bernard Hermann convinced him otherwise, and this piece is now one of the great cult themes of all time.

The piece mainly consists of the string section of an orchestra and involves a large amount of screeching violin sounds.

Id the film for which Hermann contributed The Murder.

Slide Left Blank

18. Sir Rowland Hill’s most famous legacy. What is its NAME?

Slide Left Blank

Penny Black

19. Stamp features Jefferson Davis. Id the ‘country’ which issued the stamp.

Slide Left Blank

20. Shown is an actress named Tiffany Brissette. She starred as the protagonist of a famous 1980s TV show. Id the show, or whom she starred.

Slide Left Blank

Vicki Lawson, from Small Wonder

21. MAD spoof cover of which movie. The date is Sept. '73.

Slide Left Blank

I met a pollster from an antique land,Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand, one in Texas...., one near Canton,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose brow,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The electorate that mocked them, and the press that fed;And on the pedestal, these words appear:My name is X,Look on my resume and campaign fundraising, ye fellow Democrats, and despair!Nothing else remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away....

22. Id X. / Id the poem this one parodies. (NO points for fundas, like who is parodied as X, etc.)

Slide Left Blank

I met a pollster from an antique land,Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand, one in Texas...., one near Canton,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose brow,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The electorate that mocked them, and the press that fed;And on the pedestal, these words appear:My name is Hillarymandias,Look on my resume and campaign fundraising, ye fellow Democrats, and despair!Nothing else remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away....

Hillarymandias

OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique landWho said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.And on the pedestal these words appear:`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away".

23. What came next and when? Also put funda.

First – 1928 27th – 1960

Slide Left Blank

Black-and-white talkies to win Best Picture

24.Connect.

Slide Left Blank

Audrey Hepburn Movies• Clockwise From top left:

– War And Peace (1956) – Picture is Leo Tolstoy’s book– Sabrina (1954) – Picture is of Sabrina Fair– Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) – Picture is of Truman

Capote’s book– Bloodline (1979) – Picture is of Sidney Sheldon’s book– Wait Until Dark (1967) – Picture is of Fredderick

Nott’s play– My Fair Lady (1964) – Picture is of Beatrice Tanner,

the original actress who starred as Eliza Doolittle

25. Id the book, made into a film in 1993. (Clue: Look carefully at the cover :-)

Slide Left Blank

26. What does this website do?

Slide Left Blank

27. Shown here is an actor named Basil Rathbone. In a 1939 movie, he gave a quote which is more often associated with the character he played (X), rather than himself. Although, the line was spoken earlier by Clive Books, Rathbone is credited with making it famous. What is the line? / Id X.

Slide Left Blank

Sherlock Holmes:Elementary, my dear Watson.

Cause An Influence

28. Explain the Cause – Influence relationship. / Id the Cause.

Slide Left Blank

Answer

• The cause is the 1958 movie, Kakushi Toride No San Akunin, a.k.a. (The Three Villains of) The Hidden Fortress.

• The movie is told from the perspectives of the two most insignificant characters.

• The original plot of Star Wars was initially to complicate to film, so Lucas decided to adopt Kurosawa’s approach and tell Star Wars from the perspectives of C3PO and R2D2.

29. Shown here is X in her debut film, To Have And Have Not (1944). Her future husband Y also starred alongside her in this film. Y coached X in developing a lower voice for her character in the film. The Y-X Syndrome, named after both X and Y, affects actors, singers, etc., who routinely speak in a very low pitch. Id X & Y.

Slide Left Blank

Bogart – Bacall Syndrome

30. Caritas International is a confederation of 162 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Caritas announced recently, that it plans to set up a supermarket offering essential items to Rome’s needy, free of charge. Families will be given a top-up card by their local councils which they can swap for basic food items at the supermarket in central Rome.

The money provided by tourists hoping to return to Rome will provide a valuable subsidy to the project, organized with an Italian supermarket chain and the city's council. How is the project funded?

Slide Left Blank

Coins from the Trevi Fountain

Last Round

SVC

Rules

• 4 slides of visuals connected by a THEME. The THEME is EXHAUSTIVE.

• No points for identifying any of the pictures.• Scores for getting the THEME right or wrong

will be shown on each slide.• In case you wish to guess the THEME, raise

your hand and write down the THEME. DO NOT SHOUT THE THEME.

+25 / -10

+20 / -10

+15 / -5

+10 / -5

+5 / last guess

ACTORS PORTRAYING THEM WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR

End Of Quiz

Thank You!