The Prestige

A General Quiz

Quizmasters: Srikanth & Ashish

May 22, 2014

Prelims

Rules

• 20 questions.

• No negative marking.

• +1 for every correct answer.

• Question number 5,10,15 & 20 are star(*) marked.

1. • Flag of?

Rawandan Patriotic Front

2.

• The X Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the X Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer _____ X and his wife _____ ______ X. Eighty-six X laureates have received

the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades.

Lasker Awrads

3.

These were the three candidates in a 2012 contest:

• Bossa Nova

• Carnavalesca

• X

X won, by the way. What was this for?

Brazuca

4.

• ID the team.

5*. • ID the book.

The Prestige

6.

• Logo of?

7.

• ID the person in the picture.

General Tito

8.

• In June 1999, X was introduced in Bhutan and Bhutan became the last nation in the world to have X. A study conducted by some Bhutanese academics found that X has caused strong desire for western products among the people of the country and resulted in the increase in crime rate.

• What was X?

Cable Television/Television

9.

• The history of X has been intrinsically linked with the extraction of phosphate. This island was annexed by Germany in 1888 and incorporated into Germany's New Guinea Protectorate. During second world war Japanese troops occupied X on 26 August 1942. The Japanese troops built an airfield on X which was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to X.

• X became self-governing in January 1966. On 31 January 1968, following a two-year constitutional convention, X became the world's smallest independent republic.

Naruru

10*.

• Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by X’s family and managed X's eldest daughter Y.

• The Fininvest group is composed of a number important companies: Mediolanum, Mondadori, Mediaset, Medusa Film, Z etc.

• Identify Z.

We don’t really know Z as a company.

AC Milan

11

• X is a character in an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer, produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG for Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery. The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as “X" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman. The advertisements first began appearing in the United States in 2006 and have since then become an Internet meme.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

12.

• Whose statue is this?

Ayrton Senna’s statute at Immola

13.

• ID. (Hint: Everyone knows his wife!)

Prince Philip (Husband of Queen Elizabeth)

14.

• What starts with-"The appointed day has come......" and ends with-"we bind ourselves afresh to her service"?

Nehru’s ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech

15*.

• Logo of?

16.

• One of the voice is of Kishore Kumar’s (obviously!)? Who is the other singer?

Kishore Kumar

17.

• ID.

Robert Resnick

18.

• This hard-working country got a new national holiday in 2014 with the introduction of "Mountain Day", supposedly to encourage citizens to appreciate mountains in the country. This adds to other 'natural' holidays such as "Greenery Day" and "Ocean Day", and other interesting days such as "Respect for the Aged Day".

• Which country?

Japan

19.

• ID the author.

Jairam Ramesh

20*. • Where is this memorial located ?

At the location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur

Infinite Bounce

• +15/-5 on pounce.

• +10 on IB.

1.

• An artist's works were first revealed in 2013 when a hacker infiltrated email accounts of his family members. An institute in Dallas, Texas is hosting an art exhibition from April to June 2014, titled "The Art of Leadership" displaying the artist's portraits of renowned world leaders. One of his paintings is a portrait of Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh (Image on the next slide).

George W. Bush

2.

• In March 2014, physicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced finding evidence that pointed to the existence of 'gravitational waves', which supports the 'cosmic inflation' theory which postulates events in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang. The Economist newspaper headlined its article about this announcement: "_____ flexes its

muscles". What was the blank, and why?

"BICEP" - BICEP2 was the name of the telescope (at the South Pole); BICEP stands for "Background Imaging of

Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization".

3.

• "Travails of Chachi" is a non-fiction book set in New Delhi and UP, and is authored by Louise Khurshid, wife of Union Minister Salman Khurshid. The book was unveiled at the 2014 Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2014.The book was launched by the socially ubiquitous Suhel Seth, after the original guest was unable to come. Who was this guest?

Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda died a couple of days before this event, amidst scandal.

4.

• The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books is an annual award for the previous year's best general science writing and best science writing for children. The nominees and winners are decided by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science. The prizes were established in 1988 and were known as the Science Book Prizes until 1990 when they were sponsored by Rhône-Poulenc and became known as the Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books. Between 2000 and 2006, following the merger of Rhône-Poulenc with Hoechst AG to form X, the prizes were renamed the X for Science Books.

• ID X.

Aventis

5.

• In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest elections from the Vadodara constituency in Gujarat. Since 1991, this seat has always been won by the BJP (except in 1996).The winner of the 1991 election rode a political wave and a cultural phenomenon, that swept India a few years before; both were associated with the temple town of Ayodhya. If one of these waves was the Ram Mandir agitation, what was the other phenomenon, and who was this MP (a lady)?

Deepika Chikhalia, who played "Sita" in the Doordarshan TV serial "Ramayan".

6.

• Speaking about the launch of a political party in Pakistan in March 2014, its rebellious founder Arslan-ul-Mulk said in his founding address:

• "Is today's Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned? Is this a state where all are equal and enjoying the fruits of freedom? The present leadership, both political and bureaucracy, has lost the essence of why Pakistan was created."

• He also announced that the leaders of his party would sit on strike in front of the Punjab Assembly demanding acceptance of the Police Reforms and Anti Torture Bill 2014.

• What is this party appropriately named?

Aam Aadmi Party

7.

• The X is a transnational Islamic political organization which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna. It began as a Pan-Islamic, religious, and social movement by the end of World War II. The X had an estimated two million members. Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work“. In 2012 it became the first democratically elected political party in Egypt, but it is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain ,

Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

The Muslim Brotherhood

8.

• On July 7th 1896, the _____ _____showcased six films at the Watson Hotel in Mumbai and this marked the birth of Indian cinema as we know it today. The ______ ______were French Cinematographers who arrived in India after having proved their cinematic excellence in Paris. The six films screened that day were Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A Demolition, Ladies and Soldiers on Wheels and Leaving the Factory.

Lumiere Brothers

9.

• The picture shows a mountain in the Himalayan mountain range, lying in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarkhand, India near Sinla pass. It is considered sacred by Hindus. Its appearance is distinctly similar to Mount Kailash in Tibet. Near this mountain lie Parvati Lake and Jonglingkong Lake. Jonglingkong Lake is sacred, as Manasarovar, to the Hindus. What is this mountain called? and why?

It's the Om Parbat, as it is most popular known, beacuse its distinct snow pattern forms the Hindu

symbol of "aum/om".

10

• Big Four is the colloquial name for the four main banks in several countries, where the banking industry is dominated by just four institutions . In the United States, the "big four" banks hold 39% of all U.S. customer deposits (as of 2009), and consist of:

• JPMorgan Chase

• Bank of America

• Citigroup

• ______ ______

• Fill in the blanks.

11.

• An integral part of the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the last many years, Rufus went missing for a few days during the two weeks of the 2012 tournament. He was in a car when he was kidnapped (which may not be, technically, the best term to describe his misfortune). Rufus was found a few days later and was able to resume duties at Wimbledon once again. He usually goes to work in the mornings before and evenings after play.

• Who is he and what does he do?

Rufus is a hawk used to scare away pigeons from the courts and preventing additional, unplanned white

markings on the hallowed grasscourts.

12. Part of whose diary? Put the funda.

• “…How long have you been here? She seems to be trying to remember. Three weeks. What is this? I show her a pencil. A pen. A purse, key, diary and cigar are identified correctly. At lunch she eats cauliflower and pork. Asked what she is eating she answers spinach. When she was chewing meat and asked what she was doing, she answered potatoes and horseradish. When objects are shown to her, she does not remember after a short time which objects have been shown…”

Differential

• 2n + 5 marking scheme.

• ‘n’ is the number of teams not/incorrectly answering.

1.

• Ernst Hess was a German commander during the First World War. Baptised a Protestant, he had a Jewish mother and was thus regarded a 'full-blooded Jew' by Nazi race laws. Although finally thrown in concentration camp in 1941, he survived the war to become president of the German Federal Railways Authority. What was so special about him escaping the holocaust?

• Image on the next slide ( might help!).

Only Jew saved by Hitler. He was the commanding office of Hitler during World War I.

2. • What does this map depict?

Internet in 1969 (ARPANET)

3.

• "Fuleco" is the name of the official mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This represents a species of an animal native to Brazil and is endangered. What type of animal is this, which incidentally rolls up into a ball when faced with

danger?

Armadillo

4.

• What is this?

Arecibo Message

5.

• On 24 April 1996, Eiður Guðjohnsen came on in the second half as a substitute for X, in an international friendly against Estonia. Guðjohnsen and X entered football history when playing in this international friendly for Iceland. Give me the funda.

Guðjohnsen came on in the second half as a substitute for his father, Arnór.

6.

• ______ _______was a legendary king of an ancient Haihayas kingdom with capital at Mahishamati which is on the banks of Narmada River in the current state of Madhya Pradesh. He was son of Kritavirya, king of the Haihayas. He is described as having a thousand hands and a great devotee of god Dattatreya. He was killed by Parashuram for chopping off the head of his father Jamadagni.

Kartavirya Arjuna

7. Connect

Absolute Monarchy

8. • X is a non-profit working with children from some of

India’s poorest neighborhoods. X transforms children out of poverty by nurturing them on a journey from childhood to livelihood using sport as a mechanism to institute behavioural change. The X curriculum focuses on the vital inputs of education, personal and community healthcare, gender equality and livelihood to ensure that youth make the right choices from childhood all the way through to their post teen years. X, one of India’s leading non-profit organizations won the coveted Laureus Sport for Good Award on 26 March, 2014.

9.

• The image on the next slide is a 12th century Byzantine manuscript of something? What is it?

Hint: The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a

revision of the ________ _______.

Hippocratic Oath

What is this list? It’s exhaustive.

• Frank Anthony

• A. E. T. Barrow

• D. Ering

• Marjorie Godfrey

• C. C. Gohain

• Rudolph Rodrigues

• Joss Fernandez

• Paul Mantosh

• Maj. Gen Robert E Williams

• Neil O’Brien

• Hedwig Rego

• Dr. Beatrix D’Souza

• Lt. Gen Neville Foley

• Denzil B Atkinson

• Ingrid Mcleod

• Francis Fanthome

• Dr. Charles Dias

10.

Anglo-Indians nominated to Lok Sabha

11.

• What is this list? (Very specific answer required)

• Nina Bawden—The Birds on the Trees

• J. G. Farrell—Troubles

• Shirley Hazzard—The Bay of Noon

• Mary Renault—Fire from Heaven

• Muriel Spark—The Driver's Seat

• Patrick White—The Vivisector

These were the books shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize.

The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel

from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the

previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. The prize was

won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles.

12.

• Prince Harry, a member of the British Royal Family, is also a British military officer. He has launched a Paralympics-like sporting event for wounded servicemen; the first edition is to be held in late 2014. This event takes its name from a famous poem, which was also the name of a film about events from another sport that the British love.

• What is this name?

Invictus Games

Dr Alzeheimer’s diary

About Auguste D., the first recorded Alzheimer’s patient by Dr. Alzheimer.

Long Visual Connect

• +5 for individual identification.

1. +35/-5

Julius Nyerere

First Prime Minister of Tanzania

2. +32/-5

Dr Ariyaratne

Founder and president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.

3. +29/-5

Gerhard Fischer

German diplomat and ambassador

4. +26/-5

Ramakrishna Mission

5. +23/-5

Baba Amte

6. +20/-5

Nelson Mandela, Grameen Bank

7. +17/-5

John Hume

8. No points for Identification +14/-5

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust. It was founded on November 7, 1938 by Dr.

K. M. Munshi.

9. +11/-1

Vaclav Havel

Last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech

Republic(1993-2003).

10.

Coretta Scott King

The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights

Movement in the 1960s

11.

Desmund Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and

retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He

was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).

12. +10

Chandi Prasad Bhatt

Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a

mother-organization to the Chipko Movement.

Recipients of Gandhi Peace Prize

As a tribute to the ideals espoused by Gandhi, the Government of India launched the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995 on the occasion of

the 125th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi. This is an annual award given to individuals and institutions for their contributions

towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods. The award carries Rs. 10 million

in cash, convertible in any currency in the world, a plaque and a citation. It is open to all persons regardless of nationality, race, creed or sex.