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.

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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

AND THE ANSWER IS

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

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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

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Claude Shannon

Connect by naming the missing fourth member of this exhaustive list

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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

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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