MindSweep 2012 Part I Answers

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MindSweep 2012Part I The Arts, Literature, Cinema, Music, Sports and Leisure

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This BOOKLET contains 100 questions, divided into 5 topics. It comprises Part I of the contest. Your cumulative score across the tentopics will determine your ranking.

Rules:1. You have 60 minutes to answer as many of these questions as possible.2. Papers will be swapped with another player for marking at the end of 60 minutes.3. Unless stated in the question, last names will suffice. However, if you give the wrong first name, your answer will be incorrect!4. Phonetically correct answers will be accepted.5. After the five topics have been marked, you will get your paper back and you have 5 minutes to check you agree with the marking.

Disputes must be referred to the coordinator in this time. Please indicate which answer(s) you are querying with a large ? question mark.6. At the end of marking, your checker should copy your scores into the table on this sheet. If you agree with their marking, sign next to the

score(s) to confirm this. Your complete script should then be handed in (it will be returned to you later). Once this has been done, nofurther discussions will be entered into about your score. The score signed for will be considered to be correct.

7. The overall highest scoring player from all participating venues will be the KQA MindSweep Champion 2012.8. In the event of a tie, your lowest scores will be compared and the person with a higher score there will win.9. In the event of any unprecedented occurrence or unforeseen circumstances arising in the course of the quiz, your proctors decision shallbe final and binding. KQA will adjudicate if the proctor refers the matter to us.10. Your commencing to answer the questions indicates your acceptance of these rules.

Thank you.

Kiran Vijayakumar, Dibyendu Das and Arul Mani, KQA

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# Topic Marks

1 The Arts

2 LiteratureSign here

3 Cinema

4 Music

5 Sports and Leisure

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MindSweep 2012 The Arts

1. Claude Monet spotted this sleepy town from the window seat of a train in1883 and decided to rent a house there. He spent 43 years paintingdifferent facets of the garden in that house. Name this town.

1. Giverny.

2. This milestone in the history of the arts was produced in 1903. The nearbyNew Jersey landscape was made use of whenever necessary. It wasinspired by an exploit pulled off by the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang in the vicinity

of Table Rock in Wyoming. Identifythe work.

2. The Great Train Robbery(byEdwin Porter).

3. Titles are not always evocative. This one, according to a critic, combines afascination for the neon lights of an American city with the kinetic feel of jazzmusic. Which 1943 work of art?

3. Broadway Boogie-woogie (byPiet Mondrian).

4. The main constituent was organised by a Vic Hislop, adventure sportsmanand businessman from Hervey Bay, Australia, for about 6000 pounds. Theother constituents were glass, steel and a 5% formaldehyde solution. Eithername the artist OR identify Hislops contribution.

4. Damien Hirst OR Shark.

5. (Visual) Paul van Hoeydonck was commissioned in 1971 to execute asculpture that would be both light and capable of enduring adversevariations in temperature. The commission also specified that the sculpture

should bear no indications of gender or ethnicity. The result was a 3 inchaluminium sculpture. Either tell us for what purpose this sculpture wascommissioned OR where it may now be found.

5. Fallen Astronaut, a tribute toastronauts who died on spacemissions. The sculpture was

deposited on the Moon.

6. One of her best known works, Caf Mller, draws on her childhoodmemories of her parents boarding house in Solingen, Germany. To quoteone account, a man repeatedly slams a woman into a wall, and she obligeshim by doing the same, grabbing him about the waist and hurling him at thewall with such violence that he can only cushion the impact by throwing outhis hands and his feet ahead of him at the last minute . Identify thecreator, whose work formed the centrepiece of a 2011 3D movie by WimWenders.

6. Pina Bausch.

7. The intended title for this fresco was Causarum Cognitio orKnowledge ofCauses, but a 17th century guidebook decided to call it the ____ ________ and that three-word name stuck. What is the familiar title?

7. School of Athens (by Raphael).

8. Between 1909 and 1914, he completed a series of paintings whose titles allbegan with the same word. All of them are set in empty Italianate squares,inspired by the authors experiences of Florence and Turin. Titles in thisseries include____ of an Oracle,____ of an Autumn Afternoon and____ ofa Day. Eitherprovide the missing word OR name the painter.

8. Enigma OR Giorgio de Chirico.

9. Vasari wrote that it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holyfather, who was so humble and modest in all that he did and said andwhose pictures were painted with such facility and piety. Which 15th-

century artist who was beatified in 1982 by Pope John Paul II?

9. Fra Angelico. (Also accept Guidodi Pietro OR Il Beato Angelico.)

10. The wreckage from which frigate of the French Navy was located by anexpedition led by Jean-Yves Blot in 1980 off the coast of modern-dayMauritania?

10. Mduse. (Made famous byThodore Gricaults The Raft ofthe Medusa).

11. Which work of art, originally a detail from another creation by the artist wasgiven its popular name by his foundry workers who noted its similarity toMichelangelos statue of Lorenzo de Medici called Il Penseroso?

11. The Thinker(by Auguste Rodin).


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12. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan weretermed the daring ladies and the adamantine ladies for something theydid on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. What didthey do?

12. Opened the Museum of ModernArt (MoMA).

13. He was Al Capps assistant on Lil Abner before his iconic depictions ofConan the Barbarian in the 1960s became legendary. Known for hisdepictions of fantasy characters, sword-wielding barbarians and voluptuousgirls, identify the master painter.

13. Frank Frazetta.

14. He wanted to be a painter, but Gertrude Stein once had a look at his workand advised him to join the family business of thread manufacturing instead.During his service in the French Army in 1930, he read Joseph Conrad sHeart of Darkness, and decided to seek escape and adventure on the CtedIvoire in colonial Africa. He survived by shooting game and selling it tolocal villagers. From hunting, he learned methods which he later used in thecraft which would make him famous. Who?

14. Henri Cartier-Bresson.

15. (Visual) The Presidential Palace was designed by Charles Maruri and PaulBelau and was inaugurated in 1920 by President Maria Garcia Menocal.Decorated by Tiffany and Co., it remained the Presidential Palace till 1959and now does duty as a museum. In which capital city can you find it?

15. Havana.

16. Between December 1913 and January 1914, it was exhibited to packedcrowds in different cities of Italy. This was a series of unplanned exhibitionsfollowing a revelation made to Alfredo Geri, a dealer in antiques, who theninformed the police. They acted, and this allowed these impromptuexhibitions to take place. What was thus exhibited?

16. Mona Lisa. (Also accept LaGioconda OR La Joconde)

17. One of a series of 100 Famous Views of Edo, this striking painting byUtagawa Hiroshige places the viewers eye at the same level as the bird spreparing to swoop on its prey, while the desolate wintry expanse of theplain below is visible. What kind of bird is it?

17. Eagle.

18. Yes, the body is a hideous thing / the feet and genitals especially / thehuman face not far behind / Blue veins, / make snakes on the backs of

hands, and mar / the marbled glassy massiveness of thighs JohnUpdikes poem about which painter?

18. Lucian Freud.

19. (Visual) When Time magazine selected The Protester as its 2011 Personof The Year, whose illustration adorned the cover of the issue?

19. Shepard Fairey.

20. The first such was a bicycle-wheel. The others included a bottle rack in1914 and a snow shovel bought in a New York hardware store in 1915. Themost famous in this series was an object renamed and repositioned in 1917.Either tell us what term was applied to this set OR give us the name forthis 1917 object.

20. Ready-mades OR Fountain (byMarcel Duchamp).


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MindSweep 2012 Literature

1. Aljamiado is the name for a hybrid literature that seems to have existedbetween the 1400s and the 1600s. It derives its name from the Arabic wordfor non-Arab, and was written in Arabic characters, but used vocabularyderived from another language altogether. The prose-work Kitab Segobiano,a widely distributed manual of the Muslim faith, was one example of theworks produced thus. What was the other language involved?

1. Spanish.

2. (Visual) His first efforts, which were published in 1822, show a marked debtto Walter Scott. His most famous effort was achieved between the years1835 and 1872 and comprises 168 units in all. Mary Howitt was the first totranslate his works into English in 1846, after which several other attemptswere made. Who are we talking about?

2. Hans Christian Andersen.

3. (Visual) A 1622 work got him into some trouble. Apart from his two famousbooks, he also left unpublished his Letters, and various notes he had writtenwhile reading Dantes Inferno, Ariostos Orlando Furioso and TassosGerusalemma Liberata. Who?

3. Galileo Galilei.

4. Theres a word missing in this excerpt from the Diaries of Samuel Pepys:The histories of the old Northern nations, which commonly have the title of

____, which signifies a narration of History.What is the missing word?

4. Saga.

5. The English novel that won the Booker Prize in 2000 was inspired by a 56-page letter which the subject once wrote in defence of a bank robbery hehad organised. Who was the subject of this book?

5. Ned Kelly.

6. Identify the subject of this Ogden Nash poem: ____ has made herselfillustrious / By constant industry industrious. / So what? Would you be calmand placid / If you were full of formic acid?

6. The Ant.

7. The narrative of this 1979 novel ____ is about a reader trying to read a bookcalled ____. (Both blanks fill up the same title.) Every odd-numberedchapter is in the second person, and tells the reader what he is doing inpreparation for reading the next chapter. The even-numbered chapters are

all chapters from whichever book the reader is trying to read. Identify thiswork which inspired the title of a 2009 album by Sting.

7. If on a winters night a traveler(by Italo Calvino).

8. Which phrase currently used to refer to the willingness of the audience tooverlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with theacceptance of those premises, was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge inBiographia Literaria in the context of the creation and reading of poetry?

8. Suspension of disbelief.

9. Which acclaimed work of fiction is divided into three partsThe Hearthand the Salamander; The Sieve and the Sand; and Burning Bright?

9. Fahrenheit 451 (by RayBradbury).

10. The Land of Painted Caves, the sixth and final instalment in the EarthsChildren series was published in 2011. Identify the authorof this series ofspeculative alternative historical fiction set circa 30,000 years before

present.

10. Jean M. Auel.

11. What nickname was given to T.S. Eliot by Anglophobe Ezra Poundbecause he undertook to attack British literary lethargy while Eliot waslaying low in the enemy camp?

11. Old Possum.

12. When the 2011 Nobel winner in literature, Tomas Transtromer, went on apoetry-reading tour in the Arab world, a Syrian poet, Ali Ahmad Said Absar,accompanied him. By what pseudonym is Ali Ahmad well-known,himself a strong contender for Nobel Prize?

12. Adonis.


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13. (Visual) Which award in comics and cartooning is named after the brick-wielding mouse found in George Herrimans Krazy Kat?

13. Ignatz Award.

14. His son was a man of science while he chose to specialise in law. He was adiplomat who wrote for his own diversionwe can gauge this from the factthat he described his poems as cornflowers. One of the premier literaryprizes in his country takes its name from the surname that he bears. Whatsurname?

14. Huygens.

15. This literary prize is jointly supported by two countriesone in Europe and

one in South America. It takes its name from a writer who led a chequeredlife, travelling all over the world, losing an eye in Morocco, and eventuallydying a pauper in his own city. The master-work that he wrote has beendismissed as an epic of commerce, though its defenders aver that is equallyan epic of knowledge and extension. Name this author.

15. Lus de Cames.

16. The actual name of this pioneering author is unknownwe know her by aname assigned by scholars. This assigned name was created by combiningthe name of the protagonist from her major work and the position that herfather held. The 1010 AD work we remember her for was translated intoEnglish in 1933 by Arthur Waley. Eithername the authorOR the work.

16. Murasaki Shikibu OR The Tale ofGenji.

17. Adolfo Bioy Casares used the pseudonym James Miranda and Martin

Sacastru. He also collaborated with a famous writer on works that theypublished under the names B. Lynch Davis and B. Suarez Lynch. Bothnames were devised by combining the names of their respective great-grandfathers. Who was the writerwith whom Bioy Casares collaborated?

17. Jorge Luis Borges.

18. The inaugural Man Booker International Prize for Translation (2005) wasawarded to David Bellos. The corresponding prize for writers went to theman whom Bellos had translateda European writer who chose not to writein his own language but in French. Who?

18. Ismail Kadare.

19. The 1981 volume La Crmonie DesAdieux was whose goodbye to along-standing partnership?

19. Simone de Beauvoir.

20. What was defined by a famous 1924 manifesto as: Psychic automatism

in its pure state, by which one proposes to expressverbally, by means ofthe written word, or in any other mannerthe actual functioning of thought.Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason,exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.?

20. Surrealism (by Andr Breton).


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MindSweep 2012 Music

1. The soloist David Tudor was the first person to perform this work on 29August 1952 at Woodstock, NY. The creator went on to serve, briefly, asNorton Professor for Poetry at Harvard. Name the work.

1. 4:33 (by John Cage).

2. He was one of Bruckners pupils, and devised a method here students gofrom clapping hands, swaying their bodies and stamping their feet to solfegesinging and piano improvisations. Name either the creator OR the

method.

2. Eugene Dalcroze OREurhythmics.

3. This 1982 project had a small budget of about 3000 pounds and ran himinto debt. He had to organise a reunion of Genesis to pay off the debt.Eitheridentify the project OR the initiator.

3. WOMAD OR Peter Gabriel.

4. He came from a generation that grew up with Bebop and found a way ofusing the harmonies--especially the tritone or the flattened fifth--as the basisfor his melodies. Hs most famous number is built entirely out of discordsand has a title meaning slightly out of tune or off-key. Either name thecomposerOR the tune.

4. Antonio Carlos Jobim ORDesafinado.

5. The character that the title of this song refers to is a composite of theseveral deluded souls who had filed paternity suits against him The

producer wanted it retitled to Not My Lover, partly because there was thepossibility of listeners confusing the object of ire with a retired sports star.Identify the composition.

5. Billie Jean (by Michael Jackson).

6. Lillian Hellman railed about the vagueness of the aspiration in this song, butBerenice Reagon who gave it a Motown beat, responded with If we saidnext week, what would we do the week after next? Copyrighted in 1969,all royalties have been assigned in perpetuity to a fund that gives annualgrants for art and activism against injustice in the South. What song are wetalking about?

6. We Shall Overcome.

7. Stanley Burrells music career has had more than one baseball connection.He took a stage-name inspired by Hank Aarons nickname and his initial

forays into music were financed by the baseball player Dwayne Murphy.Which name from the early 1990s?

7. MC Hammer.

8. According to lore, some experts prefer to walk among eucalyptus trees formiles, sniffing out the ones which have been hollowed by termites. Otherexperts can tell whether this has happened from the shape of the leaves.Experts in making what?

8. Didgeridoo.

9. Add a trailing letter to the name of a 17th-century French mathematician,and you get an element of musical notation indicating that the note shouldbe sustained for longer than its note value would indicate. Exactly howmuch longer it is held is up to the discretion of the performer or conductor.What 7-letter term?

9. Fermata.

10. (Visual) In which European city would you find this bronze statue? 10. Bremen. (A reference to thefolktale Town Musicians ofBremen)

11. What connects Borodins Symphony No. 3, Mahlers Symphony No. 10,Schuberts Symphony No. 7, Tchaikovskys Symphony No. 7 andBruckners Symphony No. 9?

11. All are considered unfinished.

12. (Visual) Which music journalist makes an appearance in the lyrics of theR.E.M. song Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) alongwith Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev and Lenny Bruce?

12. Lester Bangs.


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13. The Chinese composer Tan Duns ____ Concerto had its world premiereduring the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2003.Part of his organic music series, which object is used (same as the blank)in the concerto to create music by blowing, rubbing, cracking, shaking,popping, puckering, fingering, hitting, slapping, plucking and whistling?

13. Paper.

14. The original 551-page catalogue was published in 1862 listing all the worksfrom 1761 to 1791. Several revisions have followed, but the major one hasbeen the third revision in 1937 by Alfred (not Albert) Einstein. What are we

talking about?

14. Kchel catalogue (for Mozartsworks).

15. Which jazz festival, one of the largest in the world, was started in 1980 byAlain Simard, Andre Menard and Denys McCann and leads to the centralpart of the city being closed to traffic for ten days, as free outdoor shows areheld from noon till midnight?

15. Montreal Jazz Festival.

16. ____ ____ Has a Coldis a profile of a singer written by Gay Talese for the April 1966 issue ofEsquire and is considered one of the most famouspieces ever written of this singer. In the article, Talese claims that ________ with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuelonly worse.Fill up the blank.

16. Frank Sinatra.

17. (Visual) Simon Nkabinde earned a name meaning bush on his head due to

his aloof, commanding presence and his unbelievably loud, low voice. Henormally performed with the Mahotella Queens and soon came to be knownas the Lion of Soweto. The style of music they favoured takes its namefrom a local term for a dumpling cooked in a hurry. Either give us the nameNkabinde used on stage OR name this genre of music.

17. Mahlathini OR Mbaqanga.

18. Paul Hindemiths efforts at interpreting the life of the painter Grnewald gothim into trouble with Goebbels. In 1949, he began work on an opera titledHarmony of the World. This work was built around the life of a 17th Centurypersonality who wrote a book with the same title. Who was the subject ofthis Hindemith work?

18. Johannes Kepler.

19. Which rock bands name was not meant to insult a famous family, but to

bring attention to the end of the American Dream, according to its leadvocalist? His stage name incidentally derives from a brand name (which isused as a generic term for a type of dessert in Northern America) and ashort-lived African state.

19. Dead Kennedys.

20. Which highly acclaimed Haitian American hip hop group released just 2studio albums Blunted on Realityand The Score before disbanding in 1997?The group took its name from a word often used derogatorily to refer toHaitian-Americans.

20. Fugees.


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MindSweep 2012 Sports and Leisure

1. This sport is governed by the Lausanne-based organisation FITA. The letterT stands forTir. Which sport?

1. Archery (Federation InternationaldeTir a lArc).

2. This variant of an existing sport is played using an eight--foot bamboo canein a playing field that is about 100 feet by 60 feet. It has received adverseattention from PETA because metal goads are also used. Name thisvariant of a more familiar sport.

2. Elephant Polo.

3. Which video game development company is behind the extremelysuccessful series like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Left 4 Deadand Portal?

3. Valve.

4. He is the tallest player ever on the ATP Tour and holds the fastest serverecorded in professional tennis, measured at 156 mph. Which tennisplayer, whose record of 78 aces in a single match was broken by both JohnIsner and Nicolas Mahut in the longest match in tennis history at the firstround of 2010 Wimbledon Championships?

4. Ivo Karlovi.

5. The six keys movements of the which Olympic sport include wind up,move in rhythm, balance, right leg engine, orbit and delivery?

5. Discus throw.

6. During this game, players take turns to remove a block from a tower andbalance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as thegame progresses. Created by Leslie Scott, it takes its name from a Swahiliword meaning to build. Which game?

6. Jenga.

7. According to official reports, who shot 5 holes-in-one and finished 38under par on his first ever outing at a golf course?

7. Kim Jong-il.

8. One of the most quoted games in chess was played in 1858 between theAmerican chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the Germannoble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard. Itsevocative name comes from the setting of the match in Paris which providedan entertaining backdrop for the players. By what name is this matchcommonly referred to?

8. Opera game.

9. For illegally transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes he was arrested in 1912 and sentenced to a year in prison. He skipped bailand lived in exile for seven years before returning to his homeland in 1920and jailed subsequently. While in jail he modified a wrench that he patented.Identify this person whose greatest moment came on July 4, 1910?

9. Jack Johnson.

10. Mary Meagher was a swimmer who won three golds for US in the 1984Summer Olympics. What operatic two-word nickname did she carry forspecializing in a particular swimming stroke?

10. Madame Butterfly.

11. (Visual) The world record for the sport was held by Patrik Sjoberg before hebroke it in 1988. He went on to break his own records in 1989 and 1993,which still stand. Who is this legendary sportsman?

11. Javier Sotomayor.

12. The target in this outdoor sport is known by a name meaning piglet whilethe name of the sport translates into English as feet together orfeet firmlypoised. Which sport?

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13. It was designated the national sport in 1953 on account of its local origins,but that did not stop the Wall Street Journal from recently putting out aheadline which read In soccer-mad ____ (name of the country), thenational sport is a lame duck. The article features incendiary opinionswhich compare the sport to shooting hoops on horseback and also quotessome angry citizen as having said that he knew more about Donald Duckthan this game. Name either the country OR the sport.

13. Argentina OR Pato (which meansduck).

14. The governing body in this sport mandated the use of protective equipment

made out of Lexan and similar transparent polycarbonates nearly a decadeago in order to maximise the appeal of the sport for fans, albeit after muchdebate. They started going back on that decision after several accidentswhich revealed that safety concerns raised years ago may have been spoton. Which sport?

14. Fencing. (The use of transparent

visors/masks in fencing.)

15. The top division in this sport is limited to 42 players and is normally knownby a name meaning inside the curtain. This name dates back to the timewhen top players were given the privilege of being seated in privacy beforetaking their place in the arena. Which sport?

15. Sumo. (The practice is calledMakuuchi.)

16. It takes its common name from the sound made by the detachable heelwhen it snaps back into place. This innovation was dreamed up by Dutch

researchers and, resulted in vastly improved speeds and more closefinishes. Some countries cried foul and demanded a ban, but this mid-1990sinnovation is now the norm across the world. What innovation?

16. Clapskates (in Speed Skating).

17. The most famous match in the history of this sport is probably the 1956Summer Olympics semi-final match between Hungary and the Soviet Union.As the athletes left for the games, the Hungarian revolution began, and theSoviet army crushed the uprising. The Hungarians defeated the Sovietsbefore the game was called off in the final minute to prevent angryHungarians in the crowd reacting to Valentin Prokopov punching ErvinZador. Which sport?

17. Water polo.

18. (Visual) Named after the leaders who fought for the freedom of the Latin

American countries, this tournament was started in 1960 and featured theteams Bahia, Jorge Wilstermann, Millonarios, Olimpia, Pearol, SanLorenzo and Universidad de Chile in its first edition. Identify.

18. Copa Libertadores OR

Libertadores Cup OR CopaSantander Libertadores deAmrica.

19. At which beach, located 100 km from Melbourne, is the world s longest-running surfing competitionthe Rip Curl Pro Surf & Music Festivalheld?The name of the beach is also associated with an AC/DC song that isplayed during the competition.

19. Bells Beach, Victoria, (The songis Hells Bells.)

20. The front crawl in swimming was once known by the name of the Britishswimmer who introduced in 1873. He probably borrowed it from NativeAmericans. What was it called?

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5. The Arts 15. The Arts 19. The Arts

2. Literature 3. Literature 13. Literature

5. Cinema 9. Cinema

10. Music 12. Music 17. Music

11. Sports and Leisure 18. Sports and Leisure

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