ANANDOTSAVA 2017GENERAL QUIZ

FINALSNMAMIT, Nitte

02nd March 2017

ROUND 1WRITTEN ROUND

1 Question6 Answers+5 per correct answerNo negatives

1. Solomon West Ridgeway Dias X1 was the fourth Prime Minister of ______ ______ from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959 and founder of the left wing nationalist ______ ______ Freedom Party. His widow X2 X1 became the world's first female Prime Minister when another coalition led by the party won elections in July 1960. In 1994, X2’s daughter X3 outmaneuvered her mother to become the prime minister; and then was elected President the same year. From 1994 to 2000, in her 3rd term as prime minister X2 X1 served as a subordinate to her daughter, the President.

1. Along with Solomon West Ridgeway Dias X1 , some parliamentarians crossed the floor of the House to form the Freedom Party in 1951 including Don Alwin X4, who represented Beliatta in X5 District. Don Alwin X4’s son X6 X4 went on to become the Prime Minister and President of the country. Don Alwin X4’s brother Don M X4 wore the earthy brown shawl to represent kurakkan (finger millet) cultivated by the people of his area, an example that X6 X4 follows by wearing his characteristic shawl.X5 today has an international cricket stadium named after X6 X4 and a US$ 1.4 billion port built with Chinese assistance.

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1. X1: Bandarnaike X2: SirimavoX3: Chandrika KumaratungeX4: RajapakseX5: HambantotaX6: Mahinda

ROUND 2INFINITE BOUNCE WITH POUNCE

12 QuestionsClockwise+15/-15 on Pounce+15 on BounceIf no teams answer, next question to the next team

1. X is a town on the banks of Pamaniyar River in Tiruvarur district in Tamil Nadu located 310 km from Chennai. X was founded as an agraharam village by the Medieval Cholas during the 11th century. The word X is derived from two Tamil words meaning the "Place of Vishnu". What is X?

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1. Mannargudi

2. X is the down fibers or undercoat derived from the Capra hircus. X obtained from Ladakh region is known as Changthangi whereas that obtained from H.P and Uttarakhand is known as Chegu. What is X?

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2. Pashmina

3. Founded as Tenochtitlan in 1325; a century later it became the dominant city-state of the Triple Alliance, formed in 1430 and composed of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Its population was estimated between 100,000 and 200,000 in 1519. Which modern day city is built over Tenochtitlan?

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3. Mexico City

4. If Part 3 is Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan and Part 4 is the Land of the Houyhnhnms, what are Part 1 and Part 2?

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4. Lilliput and Brobdingnag

5. The modern practice has its origins in the 1920s Prohibition in the US. The practice grew as owners sought to avoid higher wages and improved working conditions secured through US legislation. In Liberia, Edward Stettinius created a corporate structure that included The Liberia Corporation, a joint-venture with the government of Liberia so that one-fourth of its revenue would go to the Liberian government, another 10% went to fund social programs in Liberia, and the remainder returned to Stettinius' corporationThis practice has led to Panama, Liberia, and Marshall Islands accounting for approximately 40% of the entire world fleet. What term is used to describe the practice?

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5. Flag of convenience (Open registry)

6. X is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Y, a semiotician. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery, in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. The plot has Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk, a Benedictine novice travelling under his protection solve a mystery revolving around the abbey library, situated in a fortified tower—the aedificium at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy.X was made into a Italian-French-German film in 1986 directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.Give me X and Y.

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6. X: The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa)Y: Umberto Eco

7. Connect:1. The joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 (jointly with

Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg) for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory

2. Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role at the Oscars 2017And Case: Shihabuddin Imbichi Koya Thangal vs K.P. Ahammed Koya on 8 December, 1970 (Kerala High Court)

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7. Ahmadiyyas1. Abdus Salam2. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

8. X is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni (1974), which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975.Set in riot-stricken Pakistan in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India after the partition. Nathu played by Om Puri is the main character in X. First shown on Doordarshan as a mini-series it was later released as a one-off four-hour-long feature film. What is X?

8.

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8. Tamas

9. American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation XY's name was founder Steve Schwartzman's invention, and reflected the ethnic roots of the firm's two original partners - Schwarz is German and Yiddish for x, and peter (Pete Peterson), as petros is Greek for y. (petros could also means z)Asset management company XZ was founded as XY Financial Management within the private equity firm XY Group in 1988. Larry Fink, XZ's founder and CEO, had joined XY that year as a partner. The firms split in 1992. Give me XY and XZ.

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9. XY: Blackstone XZ: BlackRock

10. BRAC was established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 at Shallah Upazillah in the district of Sunamganj, Bangladesh. What record does BRAC hold internationally?

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10. Largest NGO in the world (120,000 + employees)

11. Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, Australia six years after being taunted by his exchange student-friends from the USA in Japan for coming from "the bottom of the world" while at Melbourne University, produced and launched it on Australia day in 1979. It has sold over 350,000 copies to date. JNU Professor Nivedita Menon presented a picture from the Himal magazine at Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur as a part of her lecture in the first week of February 2017. What connects these examples?

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11. South on top maps

12. A 1978 hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M (the second from their album Nightflight to Venus) is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Yefimovich X. Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal in South Korea has been nicknamed Korea’s “female X”Who is X?

12.

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12. Rasputin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkySNDX4dU

ROUND 3LONG CONNECT

9 QuestionsWritten round. 10 points for each correct answer.Each answer’s nation/country goes into the connectPoints for connect mentioned on each slide

1. (+90, -45) X born on 17 December 1936, worked for sometime as a chemical technologist and a nightclub bouncer. He is a fan of the club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro. He created history on 13 March 2013 by being the first non European to accept a certain position after the year 741. X was also named the 2013 Person of the Year by Time magazine. Who is X?

2. (+80, -40) ____wa is a small community in southeastern Ontario, Canada, in the city of Quinte West set up as a planned community around a shoe factory. ____nagar is a town in South 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal which was established as an industrial manufacturing city to start the first shoe factory in India. Other examples include ____ville in France, ____-Kolonie in Switzerland and ____dorp in the Netherlands.Fill in the blanks.

3. (+70, -35) X was originally advertised (1980) as having "over three billion combinations but only one solution.In reality the permutations that can be reached solely by turning the sides is 0.5*12!*8!*211*37= 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 That is 43 quintillion, 252 quadrillion, 3 trillion, 274 billion, 489 million, 856 thousand.What 1974 invention of sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő ______ am I talking about?

4. (+60, -30) Whose tragic death within 24 hours overshadowed the death of 33-year-old Austrian Roland Ratzenberger's death on April 30 1994 at Imola, Italy?

5. (+50, -25) What was started by 17 year old Ingvar Kamprad from a farm named Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd locality situated in Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Småland?

6. (+40, -20) The dessert X believed to have originated in the late 16th century in the X Region located in the state of Baden-Wttemberg. The dessert is named after Schwarzwälder kirschwasser, the specialty liquor of X region distilled from tart cherries. Josef Keller, the pastry chef in the Caf“Ahrend” in Bad Godesberg and master patissier, Erwin Hildenbrand at the CafWalz in Tingen have competing claims to the invention of X. What is X?

7. (+30, -15) The X are remarkably uniform; black; exactly 10.87m long and 1.42m wide and all have one side 24cm longer than the other. They weigh 1,500lbs (700kg), have 280 components and use eight types of wood - lime, larch, oak, fir, cherry, walmut, elm and mahogony. The anomaly in the size came late in the 19th century to compensate for the weight of the rider. The guild (La Categoria) of riders has 425 licensed memberships obtained after years of apprenticeship and a major exam. What is X?

8. (+20, -10) Established in 1919, X is considered to be the oldest ______ in the world still operating with the original name. Queen Wilhelmina awarded X, then yet to be founded its "Royal" designation in 1919. Dirk Roosenburg designed the original logo by intertwining the acronym of the name and giving them wings and a crown.The logo was largely redesigned in 1961 by F.H.K. Henrion. The stylized crown in the X logo is made up of four circles, a line, and a plus “crowning” the company’s initials. Give me X.

9. (+10, 0) Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was an Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air weaponry engineer who on 22 August 1962 attempted to assassinate X for agreeing to the FLN’s demand for independence. The event is chronicled in detail in the (otherwise fictional) 1971 work The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth and the 1973 film adaptation of the same name.Who is X?

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1. Pope Francis2. Bata3. Rubik’s Cube4. Ayrton Senna5. IKEA 6. Black Forest gateau/cake7. Gondolas8. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.)9. Charles de Gaulle

Runners Up at FIFA World Cup:1. Argentina (1930, 1990, 2014)2. Czechoslovakia (1934, 1962)3. Hungary (1938, 1954)4. Brazil (1950, 1998)5. Sweden (1958)6. West Germany/Germany (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002)7. Italy (1970, 1994)8. Netherlands (1974, 1978, 2010)9. France (2006)

ROUND 4 aVISUAL CONNECT 1

6 images across 3 slidesPoints mentioned on each slide

1. +45,-20

+30, -10

+15, 0

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Pepsi: Nothing Official About It

ROUND 4 bVISUAL CONNECT 2

20 images (21 people) across 4 slidesPoints mentioned on each slide

+50, -25

+40,-20

+30,-15

+20,-10

+10, 0

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Grace Hopper (p) (Computer Programming pioneer)Elouise Cobell (p) (Blackfeet Community Leader)Frank Gehry (architect)Eduardo J. Padrón (President of Miami Dade College)

Newton N. Minow, Attorney & Chairman, Federal Communications CommissionKareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball PlayerMaya Lin, Designer, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Robert De Niro, Actor

Robert Redford, Actor & DirectorMargeret Hamilton, Computer Scientist, Apollo missionVin Scully, Sports broadcasterBruce Springsteen, Rock musician

Lorne Michaels, Television Producer (Saturday Night Live)Richard Garwin, Physicist and inventorCicely Tyson, ActorMichael Jordan, Basketball player

Tom Hanks, ActorEllen Degeneres, Talk show hostDiana Ross, ActorBill and Melinda Gates,

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Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016 recipients

ROUND 5VISUAL ROUND

6 QuestionsOn the buzzer+10/-10 for grabsMaximum 2 wrong attempts allowed per team

1. Give me the iconic name for another photograph of the person in next slide.

1.

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1. Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula)

2. Identify

2.

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2. Balasaraswati with M.S Subbulakshmi, 1937

3. When, where and what is it called?

3.

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3. 1968, Mexico City (Tommie Smith and John Carlos)

4. Identify all three.

4.

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4. Haji MastanVaradarajan MudaliarKarim Lala

5. Who is it dedicated to?

5.

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5. Abdul Sattar Edhi

6. Whose advertisement?

6.

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6. Scrabble

ROUND 6INFINITE BOUNCE WITH POUNCE

12 QuestionsAnti-Clockwise+15/-15 on Pounce+15 on BounceIf no teams answer, next question to the next team

1. X is a half-Japanese, half-Jewish Spoken Word Poet who grew up in New York City, and has a younger brother named Y.Y is a half-Japanese, half-Jewish Spoken Word Poet who grew up in Orange County, California, and has a younger sister named Aurora X.They met for the first time when they both showed up to perform Spoken Word in the Freshmen Talent Show as first-years at Brown University.Currently in India, who are these poet educators?

1.

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1. X- Sarah Kay Y- Phil Kaye(Project VOICE)(Listen to When Love Arrives)

2. X was a Buddhist monk and a proponent of the Mahayana school and probably the head of Nalanda University. X expanded the notion of the middle way into the philosophical sphere, identifying a middle way between existence and non-existence.X is best known for his writings on emptiness, especially in his most famous work, the Madhyamika-shastra (also known as the Mulamadhyamakakarika, “Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way”). Sunyata, two truths doctrine, causality and relativity are all touched upon in X’s works. Who is X?

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2. Nagarjuna

Statue at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Eskdalemuir, Scotland.

3. The term "hockey stick graph" was coined by Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern shown by the Mann, Bradley & Hughes 1999 (MBH99) reconstruction, envisaging a graph that is relatively flat with a downward trend to 1900 as forming an ice hockey stick's "shaft" followed by a sharp, steady increase corresponding to the "blade" portion.What is on the Y-axis?

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3. Global temperatures

4. Connect

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4. The Arab Spring(Tunisia's Bourguiba Avenue, Bahrain’s Pearl Monument and Egypt’sTahrir Square)

5. Sam Panopoulos of London, Chatham, Canada, a small city halfway between Detroit and Toronto claims to have invented the X Y in 1962. His first experience with Y was in Naples but seeing its popularity among his friends who travelled to Detroit for it, decided that Y was the novelty he was looking for in his restaurant. Hawaii had become a US state in 1959 and soldiers coming home from World War II brought back among other things canned X which became a staple of every household in Ontario.Another source credits the invention to Germany's first TV cook Clemens Wilmenrod who came up with a version in 1955.What is X Y?

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5. Pineapple Pizza (Hawaiian pizza)

6. Claim 1 belongs to Two Rivers, Wisconsin: On a summer Sunday in 1881, soda fountain owner Ed Berners, at the request of a vacationing customer invented it. Claim 2 belongs to Ithaca, New York: On Sunday, April 3 1892, the Reverend John Scott of the local Unitarian Church dropped by the Platt & Colt Pharmacy and became the first consumer of it. Platt named his creation in honor of his first customer. Claim 3 belongs to Evanston, Illinois: It was invented around the year 1890 by local soda fountains after a “blue law” against them was passed under the influence of the Methodist church.What am I speaking about?

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6. Ice Cream Sundae

7. “Eppur si muove” translated as "And yet it moves" or "Albeit it does move” is attributed to X who in 1633 “the moment he was set at liberty, looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is, still it moves”. In reality, X probably never uttered this. There is a portrait, attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, of X gazing at the wall of his prison cell, on which are scratched these words. The phrase is used today as a sort of pithy retort implying that "it doesn't matter what you believe; these are the facts".Who was X?

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7. Galileo Galilei

8. During Christmas 2015, Finland launched its own country themed emoji sticker set as a part of the Christmas calendar. Two of the first three emojis released were The Sauna and The Headbanger (See pictures). The third was called The Unbreakable. What was the third emoji?

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8. Nokia 3310

9. X is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes X as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.In 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt converted Hi-Catoctin to a presidential retreat and renamed it “X“. “X” was renamed as Camp David by Dwight D. Eisenhower.What is X?

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9. Shangri-La

10. X was the acronym for a major British industrial combine founded at Gun Quarter, Birmingham, England in 1861. It was formed by a group of fourteen gunsmith members of the Birmingham Small Arms Trade Association. In India, the brand X is owned by the Murugappa Group through Tube Investments of India Limited. What is X?

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10. BSA

11. O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate is a tasteless and odorless liquid with an amber-like color. It works by blocking the function of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase.The 1996 American action thriller film The Rock is based on a fictional attack on San Francisco using this chemical from Alcatraz. Suspected real life usages include Halabja in 1988 by Saddam Hussein’s forces and on February 13, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. What?

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11. VX

12. A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) is an award-winning critically acclaimed comic novel by the Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif. The central theme of the books a fictitious story behind a 1988 real life incident. What is the central theme of the book?

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12. The plane crash which killed General Zia-ul-Haq

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