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The Setters

Prof. Rajeev GowdaPrithwiraj MukherjeeNagaratna Partikal PatilAbhijith RaghuRijul BallalChirag ChittarArul Mani

Section IRULES

20 questions x 1 pointYou can stake 1 point on a question if sure of the answerYou can stake on a maximum of 10 questionsNo negativeMax score: 30

Whose sudden elevation caused this protest in Washington DC?Qn. 1

SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 Edition

Plaintiffs Emma and Isabella are suing actress Sofia Vergara in a right-to-live lawsuit in a Louisiana court, egged on by her former fianc, Nick Loeb

Who are Emma and Isabella?Qn. 2


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionI have more Sikhs in my cabinet than Modi does.

Who?

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionThe only times this was implemented in India previously were January 1946 and January 1978

What?

This European head of government traces his roots to Margao. Who?

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Sudarsan Pattnaik was awarded the Padma Shri in 2014. For what artistic specialisation?Qn. 6


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionBelow are pictures of one of Londons largest carnivals, held since the 1960s, every August in this locality in the city, and organized by the local West Indian community. This locality shares its name with a hit 1999 film and was a low income district till the 1980s. Today it is gentrified and affluent, and the carnival may be the last remnant of its past, when poor West Indian immigrants lived there. Identify

Name the organization behind this logo.Qn. 8


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Name the brand being advertised in these images.

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionAshgabat, off an oasis near the Kara Kum desert, is the capital of a Central Asian republic. Many businessmen thought that the letters assigned to this republic for Internet use would make a great domain name.

Capital of which country?

In1851, a weaver named John Haller set out to Mangalore. After 19 months, he already had 20 looms where 27 workers were employed. Haller experimented with the sap of a bark of a semecarpus tree and invented a colour. He gave it a name borrowed from the Persian for dust.

What name did he thus coin?Qn. 11 617a


This word might remind you of a Peruvian band, an Ethiopian language or of the idea of sexual energy in Freuds work.

What 6-letter word?

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This long running Japanese manga and anime series was inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West that features a monkey king. It also has elements from the Eight Dog Chronicles. Nearly all characters have names that are puns on food items.

Name the series.

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Ancient Indians called them Yavana. This word was applied to a group of people who lived on the western coast of modern day Turkey. A revolt here would begin the famous wars with Persia.

The name Yavana was derived from which community?Qn. 14


When asked about a claim made in a research paper published by The Indian Council of Historical Research, Historian andJawaharlal NehruUniversity professor Supriya Verma said, Till date, no archaeologist has ever interpreted the _________ ____ as a goddess, let alone Parvati.

Fill the blanks. Length indicative.

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionThis dress designed by Gianni Versace is inspired by the work of which artist?

X is a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing.

What is the move X called?Qn. 17


In Greek mythology, who was the mortal sister of Stheno and Euryale?Qn. 18


6th June 2016, saw the rise in number of applicants for Indian citizenship by about 40,000. This was the highest ever number of applicants for Indian citizenship on a single day since 1948. All these applicants came from 2 states. Similarly, the same day saw about a hundred new pin codes being assigned to places in these states.

What was the reason?

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The second day of Deepawali is celebrated as Kukur Tihar in Nepal. What animal is often garlanded and honoured on this day?Qn. 20


Section IIRULES

25 questions x 1 pointThese **ed questions will be counted to resolve tiesNo negativesMax score: 25

Something that Herbert Morrison said on the radio in May 1937 is the basis for this memes long-winded joke featuring an aging Hollywood actor and a sea creature. Either give us what Morrison said with context, or give us the joke.Qn. 21


Which Indian writer composed this epitaph for himself:

In it, he said, lies one who spared neither man nor god.Waste not your time on him, for he was a sod.Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun.Thank the Lord, he is dead, this son of a gun.Qn. 22


The term was coined by Ludwig August von Rochau, a German writer and politician in the 19th century, and refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions.

What 11-letter word that is still in use?Qn. 23


The Greater Ox-cart has connections to Tendai, Nichiren and Zen.

By what 8-letter name do we refer to it in English ?Qn. 24


In 1772, theEdinburgh Advertiser included this line:"Yesterday being the settling day for India stock, the bulls had a balance to pay to the bears to the amount of 23 per cent. Only one _____ _____waddled out of the alley, and that for no greater a sum than 20,000.

The term thus meant a n investor who couldnt pay their debts. Only in the 20th century did it take on a sense of what a newspaper called that dreaded second-term problem. What expression are we looking for?Qn. 25


Some people call it a Zuckasaurus. What does it represent?Qn. 26


This program began in 1560 and ended in 1814. It was the extension of a similar such program conducted in Western Europe. Offenses included practicing astrology, polygamy and selling arms to Muslims.

What was this program?Qn. 27


The father was an admiral in the British navy and played his cards right to find a political future post the Restoration of Charles II. The son had different leanings and ended up having a state named after him in the United States. Both had the same name. Name either.Qn. 28


To make Kiswah you need 670 kilograms of pure silk. You also need 120 kgs of gold and about 50 kgs silver for the design.

What is it used for?Qn. 29


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionThe men seen here were part of group that has become a derogatory word in the English language. This group has also figured in movies made by Ismail Merchant and George Lucas.

What is the collective name for these people?

This fruits name is of Dravidian origin. Fans of The Godfather films may remember that this fruit is present before every death in the films.

What fruit?Qn. 31 617a


Unguja is the main island in an archipelago that takes its name from the Persian word for black coast. The island is often referred to by the name of the archipelago. The famous musician associated with these parts was born in the Stone Town area of the main city on this island. Name the archipelago.Qn. 32


This pathologist while studying a certain organ discovered that there were several clusters of cells separated from the surrounding tissue by a thin fibrous connective tissue. He used a metaphor borrowed from geography to describe this situation.

What in the human body takes its name thus?Qn. 33


The Kon dynasty began to build it, and later dynasties added to their work.

This location, called the "Troy of the East" by the British, stretches across three hillocks: Krishnagiri to the north, Rajagiri to the west and Chandrayandurg to the southeast.

What are we talking about?Qn. 34


This is an English word usually meant to describe a person who is silly, foolish, stupid, and/or useless.

The actual origins of the term are unknown, but some people speculate that it was coined by British playwright William Wycherley in 1676.

Samule Johnson believed the word stems from the Latin phrase 'non compos mentis', i.e. 'not of sound mind.

In 2007, a survey among 2000 Britons revealed that it was the nation's favourite word out of 16,500 entries in the Cambridge Dictionary. What word?Qn. 35


A poem by Dilip Chitre plays a small part in a major Indian film from the 80s that defined an actors career. It begins

Before I entered this maze,Who was I?I will not remember.

And ends with the line

the needle of this perfect balance points usto a half-truth

Which film?Qn. 36


If you wanted to code the individual elements in this pursuit by approximating each to the nearest possible letter, you would be left with Is , Os, Ts, Js, Ls, Ss and Zs.

If you think about it, the answer will descend into place slowly.

What pursuit are we talking about?

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X Seraphinianus, riginally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, Luigi Serafini.

The book is an encyclopedia in manuscript with copious hand-drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical flora, fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods.

What term X, meaning ancient manuscript, did Serafini attach before his name in the title?Qn. 38


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionIdentify this ancient martial art. It is characterized by pum-balgi, or stepping on triangles a combination of dance-like steps and deadly kicks. MMA fighter and the History Channels Human Weapon host Jason Chambers described it as like learning an Irish jig with kickboxing.

1n 1997, Logitech's co-founder and vice chairman, Pierluigi Zappacosta summoned executives to a meeting with management consultant Ray Mebert, to draft a new mission statement for Logitech's New Ventures Group. His memo touted Mebert as an expert who could help the group "crisply define" its goals.

Ray Mebert told the group that his credentials included work on Procter & Gamble Co.'s "Taste Bright Project," a supposedly secret effort to boost sales by improving the taste of soap. "There actually are some people who admitted in focus groups that they would sometimes taste soap," Mebert said. Executives nodded agreement.

Mebert sneered at New Ventures' statement--"to provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas"--and led an exercise in which managers suggested words and ideas that might become part of a new one.The new statement read: "The New Ventures Mission is to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings.

All of this was an elaborate prank orchestrated by Zappacosta. Who played Ray Mebert?Qn. 40


Transnistria is a rebel government in mainland Europe, but no major government or UN recognizes the legitimacy of this nation. It used to be part of the USSR, but the country that the UN recognizes this region to be a part of now, has virtually no control over it, after violent clashes broke out in 1992.

Transnistria is located between the Dniester river in the west and Ukraine in the east. The rebel government is based in Tiraspol, and even issues its own currency, the Transnistrian ruble. One of the claims of the Transnistrian movement is that the rights of the local Russian speakers are being compromised by the imposition of the alien Romanian language after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Which country is Transnistria officially part of?Qn. 41


Transnistria flag

Official country flag

Definitions of some dictionary words are below. What peculiarity do they share?Not an exhaustive listA style of South African music with rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today. The style originated in the early 1960s.The direction of MeccaThe 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabetThe basic unit of money in IsraelAn ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intentionSlang term for a drug used to calm animals

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The Polar Fox JAMES MPX808571F Mens Lace Up Cap Toe Military Combat Work Desert Ankle Boot was pulled from the market by its manufacturers after an image of it went viral on Reddit earlier this month. The same viral image prompted the Daily Stormer to call the boots a must have item.

Why did the manufacturer pull the item? (Stock images of the boot on the next slide)

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The original source refers to the events of578 BC, while the title refers to the Tigris and the Euphrates, and the lyrics also make references to Menen Asfaw's husband under the name King Alpha. The idea of captivity that runs through the lines might make sense when you remember that the original version was done by The Melodians from Kingston. The disco generation then turned it into an earworm.

What are we talking about?Qn. 44


This statue honours a Coastguardsman named John Daniels who was not an expert cameraman but got asked to record something important at this location. What job was he given?Qn. 45


Section IIIRULES

25 questions x 2 pointsNo negativesMax score: 50

ACheering news from India. My press clipping agency has sent me a letter from the correspondence column of an Indian paper about a cow that came into the bungalow of a Mr. X, who lives at Patengarth, Mandla District, and ate his copy of Carry On, Jeeves, selecting it from a shelf which contained, among other works, books by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and Henry Fielding. A pretty striking tribute I look on that as. P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend, Sept. 3, 1929

BWhich Bengaluru-based author wrote the biography of this anthropologist: Savaging the Civilised: X, His Tribals and India?

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Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, (1783-1859), 1st Baronet, was an extraordinarily successful Parsi businessman and philanthropist. The JJ School of Art and the JJ Hospital are some of his philanthropic contributions.

He made his wealth by shipping what to which country? Name substance and countryQn. 47


Axiom Research Labs in Jakkur, Bengaluru, is about to embark on an audacious adventure, the first in the Indian private sector. In the process, it is competing for a prize announced in 2007 by a company currently headed by a guy who initially used to call waiters Abbe Saaley at IIT Kharagpur.

AWhat is Axiom better known as? BWhat prize is it in the race for?Qn. 48


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionThis is a sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin. It is titled X discussing Y. One word for X; and a phrase for Y.

Critics alleged that this artistes songs were all hits because he used beautiful women in his videos. To counter this claim, he released a song in 1998, whose video featured four copies of himself, and nobody else.

The video featured advanced CGI for its time, superimposing the singer over animated backdrops like deserts, mountains and St. Basils Cathedral.

The song is probably his most popular till date (and probably the biggest hit in its genre as well), and is frequently played at nightclubs even to today. It has been a viral internet meme as well, with thousands of parody dance videos been released on youtube.

Identify the artiste and song (1 pt. each)Qn. 50


This town in West Bengal has been in the news since November 2016, because workers of a production unit present here, in true Bengali style, refused to work overtime, despite such efforts being urgently needed.

Its name literally translates to forest of Shorea robusta in Bengali pictures of the Shorea tree are below.

Identify the town. What is produced here? (1 pt each)Qn. 51


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionThe French stew on the left (beef and vegetables) inspired the soup on the right, both in content and etymology. Identify both (1 pt. each)

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionSign language for which two personalities? 1 pt. each

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Identify both words blanked out. 1 pt. each

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionConnect exhaustive list (1 pt.) . Also Identify the city marked here (1 pt.)

On the show Scream Queens, Chanel #3 (played by Billie Lourd) wears earmuffs because one guy she dated got so obsessed with her ears that he threatened to cut them off. This has also been interpreted as a tribute to actress X and arguably her most famous role.

Identify X and the role.Qn. 56 617a


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionIdentify the actor in the still, as well as the movie from which it is taken.

In 1896, X wrote a letter to the chemical engineer Ragnar Sohlman:

My heart trouble will keep me here in Paris for another few days at least, until my doctors are in complete agreement about my immediate treatment. Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed N/G 1, to be taken internally! They call it Trinitrin, so as not to scare the chemist and the public.

Identify X and explain his apprehension,Qn. 58


X is a graphic novel by Y published in September 2011. The book is set in a fictional Islamic fairy tale landscape, and depicts the relationship between Dodola and Zam, two escaped child slaves, who are torn apart and undergo many transformations as they grow into new names and new bodies, which prove to be obstacles to their love when they later reunite.

The book's website describes its concept thus as a love story and a parable about humanity's relationship to the natural world that explores such themes as the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam.

Identify X and Y.Qn. 59


This is an exhaustive list of British territories overseas. Name the missing territories.?

Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Anguilla, Bermuda,British Virgin Islands,Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos, South Sandwich Islands, ___X______, _______ Y___________, Cayman Islands, The Indian Ocean Territory, The British Antarctic Territory, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands.

X: One word.Y: Two words

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It has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933.

Walter Robbins was stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the righthander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins made a racist remark to his teammates that went "Fancy being done by a bloody_______!. This term then entered the sport.

What term? Who was Robbins referring to?Qn. 61


The idea of X came to Y when performing a standup act in Canada, where he went while he was a student at Oxford University. X is famous for his quirky and innovative ways of dealing with complexities and was possibly inspired by Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot. Ys silent humour has since brought laughs to many around the world.

X and Y?Qn. 62


Swami Shambhavananda was a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission. A man of modest formal education but self-taught was famous for a unique malaria awareness program that he started in Coorg. He would go around Coorg, singing the song Teachings of a Mosquito in the native Kodava language.

However, he is more notable for reviving a dying practice of the region and established a cooperative that was later handed over to the government.

What is the practice? What household name owes its existence to the cooperative?

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Shut up in a lovely mansion, with police night and dayPatrolling the garden to keep the assassins away,He got down to work, to decide the fateOf millions......Name the poet? Who/What is he talking about?Qn. 64


This word comes from Arabic where it is used in connection with holy sites to signify how entry to a sacred place is forbidden. In English the word has taken on different connotations. It usually conjures up images of decadent sultans and despots popular in oriental works.

Name the root word and the English derivative.

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Colloquially referred to as Y Ddraig Goch meaning The Red X, it is sometimes claimed to be the oldest national flag still in use. The nation, as such, is more a sporting entity than a formal one.

Name the country and the missing element in The Red X.

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Evidence offered by this fossil creature seems to support the arbocursorial theory. Name creature. What speculation does the arbocursorial theory offer?Qn. 67


The X days were begun during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I as an economy measure, and had more to do with something seen as peculiar to a community in India rather than anything connected to swinging from a tree or wearing a vest.

What was the economy measure? What was the name with an India connection?Qn. 68


Alan Lights book is about a phenomenon, and the role that two people played in making this phenomenon. What is the book about? Name the man on the right. Qn. 69


The words used have the same origin and more or less the same meaning, but are now spelt differently to indicate context of use. The 6-letter word is always used only for the picture on the left while the 5-letter word is used only for the picture on the right. Give both words in order.Qn. 70


Section IVRULES

2 sets of 5 questions Each question carries 1 pointThe answer expands by a letter with each questionBonus for getting each complete set: +1No negativesMax score: 6+6=12

When John Cleese took over from Desmond Llewelyn in the Bond films, what did that make him? (1)Qn. 71


German prefix meaning original or primitive. (2)Qn.72


A short form of the Iberian name Rodrigo, found in chess opening.(3)Qn. 73


Abode of this kind (4)Qn. 74


A short form for Gertrude (5 letters)Qn. 75


An Ethiopian title, useful in reggae. (3)Qn. 76


A measure of absorbed radiation (4)Qn. 77


A unit in plural (5)Qn. 78


Another one in plural. (6)Qn. 79


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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionSuccessful packing (7)

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Section VRULES

5 sets of clues with two answersEach answer carries 1 pointThe two answers are anagrams of each otherNo negativesMax score: 10

East European nation can make a mad dog out of you. (6,6)Qn. 81


Find a foe in an Arab nation (5, 5)Qn.82


Pet dog takes you to people from neighbouring countries (7,7)Qn. 83


Full moon in an Indian state (7,7)Qn. 84


Iraqi city can produce a spell of light (5,5) Qn. 85


Section VIRULES

10 questions to close withNo negativesMax score: 10

A certain writer plundered all these sources for book titles: Ten Little Indians, This Little Piggy, There Was a Crooked Man, Sing a Song of Sixpence, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Three Blind Mice, Hickory Dickory Dock and How Does Your Garden Grow? Name the writer.Qn. 86


The poster of which 2016 film that was based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly?

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One explanation for the name _____ ______ is when American prep school students in the 1950s, wishing to make a fashion statement, took to inserting a penny into the diamond-shaped slit on their Weejuns. Another theory is that two pennies could be slipped into the slit, enough money to make an emergency phone call in the 1930s. Either way, the name _____ ______ came to be applied to this style of slip-on and has since stuck. FITB.

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SJC Quizzers & KQA The 2017 EditionGoogle doodle to commemorate whose 186th birthday?

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On the left is a chocolate line from the Shetland Isles and on the right is a line of jewellery from the same location. Both companies call themselves Mirrie Dancers after the local name for what phenomenon?

Which character does this garment pay tribute to?Qn. 91


X was a term for people who attacked everybody. Y was a term for people who attacked everybody except those originating from their country with a license from the government. And Z stood for people without a license who operated by the same logic as Y.

Z took their name from a kind of grill for cooking meat and called themselves Brethren of the Coast when that name became unpopular.

What are X, Y and Z?Qn.92


The term A was a humorous appellation for a Dutchman, and meant a man with short stumpy figure. It could have meant little tree orlittle barrel. B is a perfect rhyme for A and comes from the Greek word for melon, while also bearing some sense of being cooked in the sun. Two 7-letter words for a point each.Qn. 93


Despite the ridicule and the harsh treatment given out to her , and her followers, their struggle from 1914 finally bore fruit in the UK in 1918. Who? What was the 1918 decision?Qn. 94


Kevin Richberg summed up up this epidemic of tourist envy beginning in the 1920s in a headline for HuffPo that read My _____ ______ is bigger than yours. The best known is located within the Tijuca Forest.

Popular titles for these public efforts range from Redentor and Otero, to Rey (King). The Polish Krol (33) has a number that is hard to beat.What generic effort are we talking about? Why is the Polish Krol hard to beat?Qn. 95


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