WikiBytesA GENERAL QUIZ FOR TEAMS OF TWO
9:30am on Sunday, 15/Mar/2015 @ CS24QM : Anand R Aiyer (9789903586)
“We believe that the Quiz is at hand”
PRELIMS(educated chimps may get you right answers,
points carry over to finals)
1
Identify this movie, named after a catch phrase popularised by host Bamber Gasgoine on the show University Challenge. (Well begun is half done)
AND THE ANSWER IS
Starter for 10
2
"The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road”
X is is a book worked at three levels. It is a tale of adventure...It is the drama of a boy having entirely his boy's own way... and it is the mystical exegesis of this pattern of behaviour..."
Give X.
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Kim
3
Identify the location of this monument
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Arlington Memorial, Washington DC
4
Free Speech or public indecency, you decide. Famous mugshot.
AND THE ANSWER IS
Jim Morrison
5
loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry, it is the way of the Samurai warrior must conduct himself.
X is typified by eight virtues:
Righteousness ( 義 gi) Courage ( 勇 yū) Benevolence ( 仁 jin) Respect ( 礼 rei) Sincerity ( 誠 makoto) Honour ( 名誉 meiyo) Loyalty ( 忠義 chūgi) Self-Control (jisei)
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Bushido
6Tinder Fantasy for the young and old. ID the two fictional characters.
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Hermione GrangerCarrie Bradshaw
7ID this oscar winner
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Lupita Nyong'o
8
In Baseball, what is a Grand Slam?
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a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by
baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs
9
Identify this UNESCO World Heritage site
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Valleta, Malta
10
Identify this composition and the composer
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Bhaja GovindamAdi Sankaracharya
11
Started in 1987 and located at MCC grounds in Chetpet. Connect and Identify.
AND THE ANSWER IS
MRF Pace Academy
12
The term ____ comes from the Spanish ____, which means against and in this case short for against the revolution. Some rebels disliked being called so, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order.
Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos. Peasant sympathizers also called the rebels los primos or the cousins. From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the "democratic resistance," members started describing themselves as la resistencia.
During the war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, these ____ carried out many human rights violations, and evidence suggests that these were systematically committed as an element of warfare strategy. What Term? (you have probably heard in a similar setting but different context)
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Contras
13
Identify the Poet
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WB Yeats
14
Identify this Opera singer from the photograph
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Maria Callas
15
A non-alcoholic mixed drink traditionally made with ginger ale, a splash of grenadine and garnished with a maraschino cherry.
Often served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails.
“The saccharine, sweet, icky drink? Yes, well...those were created in the probably middle 1930s by The Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood and I had nothing to do with it. But, all over the world, I am served that. People think it's funny. I hate them. Too sweet!”
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Shirley Temple
16
Identify the Actor and the Role
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Sir Lawrence OlivierHamlet
17
Identify the hairstyle
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Pompadour
18
This show featured a computer beating human champions
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What is Jeopardy?
19
What does the following painting depict? Bonus for painter
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John Singer SargentTheir eyes are bandaged, blinded
by the effect of the gas
20What is the amount to which this cheque is made out to? Explain the significance?
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One Hexadecimal DollarCorrections or Suggestions
21
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ZuckerbergParkerSaverin
22
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Churros
23
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Powerbocking
24
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Evel Knievel
25I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break,
but I've got an awful lot to live for
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Lou GehrigFarewell to Baseball
Welcome to the FINALS
● Chennai Style Pounce and Bounce● +10/0 on the bounce, +15/-10 on pounce● Play Fair● Chimp as much as possible
Breaking the Icewith Sport
and Gamefowl
Which famous moment of the 1992 World Cup?
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Jonty Rhodes run out ofInzamam-ul-Haq
Which country's National Flag has this bird on it?
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Uganda
Identify this Sufi saint said to have introduced the coffee plant to India by bringing seven raw beans from a port X in Yemen
while coming back from Hajj. Also X
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Baba BudanMocha
Identify the father and son
AND THE ANSWER IS
Paolo and Cesare Maldini
First woman to climb Mt. Everest. Identify.
AND THE ANSWER IS
Junko Tabei
The Ulnar nerve is the largest unprotected nerve in the human body, so injury is common. This
nerve is directly connected to the little finger, and the adjacent half of the ring finger, supplying the
palmar side of these fingers, including both front and back of the tips, perhaps as far back as
the fingernail beds.
The peculiar sensation one feels when it is struck gives rise to a
term _____ _____.
This name is thought to be a pun, based on the sound resemblance of the name of a bone the nerve
runs along.
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Funny BoneHumerus
What scene is being depicted here?
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This cheese gets its name from its place of origin ____ a small town
50 km north of Calcutta.
Available in two varieties — plain (white in colour) and smoked
(brown in colour) it comes in small rounds and is well-salted to be
stored. “They are great for shaving finely over a salad, pasta or risotto but if you want to eat it
as it is, it will need soaking overnight in water to remove
some of the salt.
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Bandel Cheese
Literature andother predelictions
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Anna Karenina
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my
lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know
the truth”
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JD SalingerFinding Forrester
“Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
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The Stranger by Camus
Identify the subject and artist, considered by the artist to be part of the infernal
trinity along with Bacon and Locke
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Newton by Blake
Identify the play and the number
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ChicagoCell Block Tango
Mandatory obscure flag question (or not). In this book by Ralph Leighton, he describes what is his friend X's “last adventure”, an
attempt to reach this country at the centre of Asia. X died of cancer before the Visas arrived. His daughter Michelle made the
trip. Seen below with the head of state.
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Tuva or bust!Richard Feynman
Located at the head of Rampart Row in the Kala Ghoda area, a street of galleries, restaurants and boutiques that branches
off the arterial Mahatma Gandhi Road in South Mumbai,
Identify this iconic music shop founded in the late 1930s by Suleman Nensey. It features in the 1999 Salman Rushdie
novel, The Ground beneath her feet.
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Rhythm House
What tradition started as result of a recurring gag on this comic?
Name the comic
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Sadie Hawkins DayLil' Abner by Al Capp
Kauns and
Koans
1. Identify
“O crassa ingenia, O caecos coeli spectatores.”
Identify this man of many talents
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Tycho Brahe
Identify
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Foucault's Pendulum
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Muhammed ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
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Erdos and Tao
Identify this distant cousin of Thomas Edison
Inventions include Flame throwing trumpets, Rocket Frisbees, Motorised Pogo sticks
He met Turing during the war.
Famous for his 1937 masters thesis that laid the foundationsOf the field he is most famously associated with
AND THE ANSWER IS
Claude Shannon
Connect by naming the missing fourth member of this exhaustive list
AND THE ANSWER IS
Marie Curie
Identify the individual circled. What position is he serving on the team.
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Stephen HawkingCoxswain
Ice Cream Koan
A cocky novice once said to Stallman: “I can guess
why the editor is called Emacs, but why is the justifier called Bolio?” Stallman replied forcefully: “Names are but names, ‘Emack & Bolio's’ is the
name of a popular ice cream shop in Boston-town. Neither of these men had anything to do with the
software.”
His question answered, yet unanswered, the novice turned to go, but Stallman called to him ...
What did Stallman say (to complete the koan)?
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Emack and Bolio had nothing to do with the ice-cream shop either.
The store was named after two homeless men
Identify the two sets
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Traitorous EightPayPal Mafia
Old ChestnutsAnd some
Aspirational
Connect
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Mark Rothko
Olympic Gold Medalist,Pediatrician,
Bestselling author
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do...”
Identify andName the work
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
The common sense book of baby and child care
Identify
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NicoAndy Warhol
Forrest observes that everytime the man in the Flag shirt said the F word, people cheered. Tribute to which icon?
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Abbie Hoffman
Identify the composer (old MQC wine in new bottle)
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John Cage
Identify
AND THE ANSWER IS
Rosa Parks
Connect
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Leakey's AngelsJane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birutė Galdikas — sent by anthropologist Louis
Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans respectively.
Identify
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HemingwayGelhorn
Identify
Connect
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Hedy Lamarr
Identify and Connect
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Tippi HedrenMelanie GriffithDakota Johnson
3 Generations who have appeared on the Tonight Show
Indiaand
Miscellany
Identify the logo
AND THE ANSWER IS
Vistara Airlines
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Bah'ai Houses of Worship
Lotus Temple in New Delhi
Identify the artist
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Yoko Ono
Identify the Architect
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Laurie Baker
Whose love story soon to be a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie
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Bajirao Mastani
Identify the subjectand the artist
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Shakuntala
Location
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Lepakshi
Identify
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Moshe Dayan
Give the common name for the species Canis Aureus
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Golden Jackal
Identify the martial art
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Gatka