Mood Indigo General Quiz 2012 Semi Final 2

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semi-final 2

conducted by j. ramanand


BackgroundThe second semi final

conducted at Conundrums, Mood

Indigo, Dec 2012

Eight Teams


format1. split personality (2)2. passing (12)3. pseudo-Q: set 1 (3)

1st Qualifier chosen4. reverse passing (8)5. pseudo-Q: set 2 (3)

2nd Qualifier chosen6. reverse passing (4)7. pseudo-Q: set 3 (3)

3rd & 4th Qualifiers


Rulestie-breaker policy

total of written roundssplit personalitypseudo-Q

1,2,3


split personality

the answer is the name of a personopen to all teamswritten+10/no negatives2 questions


one


Martin Freeman who has played Arthur Dent, Rembrandt, Dr. Watson, and Bilbo Baggins on screen


two


Alexander von Humboldt

The Peru current is also named Humboldt currentMap of his naturalistic expeditionA book about the work of Gauss and himThe Humboldt Penguin


in passingA → H

10 points eachmodified infinite

rebounds12 questions


Administratively, France is arranged in the following hierarchy:

Regions___________

ArrondissementsCantons

Communes

What's the missing word?


Departments


UltraTech Cement is a part of the Aditya Birla group and has been associated with sports by sponsoring the likes of Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers. In 2007, which World Cup winning squad was it the principal sponsor of?


The one shown in Chak De India!


These chappies are members of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of St. John's College, Cambridge, established in the early 19th century. What term in the world of fashion comes from the colours of this club?


Blazers because of the bright red colour of the jackets.


This is a scene from “Mantoiyat”, a 2012 performance to commemorate writer Sadat Hasan Manto's birth centenary. What art form are they performing this in?


Dastangoi


He is so fond of Australia (“the only truly young country in the world[...] There is freshness and potential about Australia)” that he wrote a book called “Why I Want to be King of Australia”. He says he even sent a copy to Prince Philip who

said he was delighted by the idea!

Of course, the main idea was to get Australians thinking differently about their life and future in

the new millennium. “Should they become a republic? Why not a monarchy?”

Which European is this?


Whose first ever address to Parliament was to a joint setting of both houses, where he successfully defended his client, Justice Ramaswamy, in Parliament's only attempt to impeach a judge?


Kapil Sibal


Whose logo?


Archaeological Survey of India


A silent short film from 1968.

What entertainment

company would get its name from

this?


Steven Spielberg (who made this

movie) would name his production house

after it.


The mobile mapping GIS Software belonging to the JT Maps GIS Software family named after this Raja. Who and why?


Raja Todarmal, who is said to have been the first person to systematically map out Mughal India.


This is Vincent Cassel from the film “Ocean's Twelve”. What is he practicising?

(video removed)


Capoeira


This verb comes from a Latin word that means “to change”. In modern English, it has two principal meanings.

The most prominent one comes from the US, and is a shortened form of a type of ticket. This is because you could change your daily tickets into a season pass.

What verb?


Commute


In an interview to Doordarshan, Rishi Kapoor recounted that he was away on shooting when Manmohan Desai called him (over a very bad line) to offer him a role in “Amar Akbar Anthony”. Rishi Kapoor misunderstood the offer and initially refused.

Why?


He thought his role was to play Emperor Akbar (he thought it was a historical featuring the likes of Mark Anthony etc.) and didn't want to be unfavourably compared with his grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor.


Pseudo-Q!

A 3x3 magic square

Each cell is associated with an answer that has a number in ite.g.: Octopus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,...

We'll start with the top row, left to right

Scoring: +10/-5

5 2 6

... ... ...

... ... ...


Each character in Braille consists of raised dots in a rectangular cell. What is the maximum number of dots in a cell?


Six


What singular phrase, known to us from literature, is the motto of Switzerland?


“One for all and All for one”


Which grammatical work has about 4000 sutras in eight chapters?


Panini’s Ashtadhyayi


First Qualifier

Round 2 (6 questions)

Passing H → A


France: VillepinteCanada: Cote-de-LiesseUK : SloughChile: SantiagoIsrael: YehudUS: ?


Scranton. The location of the paper firm in “The Office” in the

various versions.


If he was retreating, he has a choice of one in Mashobra near Simla that was taken from the Raja of Koti or one at Bolarum that was taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad.

But if he wasn't, where would you usually find him?


Rashtrapati Bhavan; these are the President of India's two Presidential Retreats.


He has a famously large collection of books of over 30, 000 books, which he keeps in two different

places. Who?


Umberto Eco. His “Name of the Rose” features a library as an

important setting.


The Central Board of Film Certification in India classifies films into the following categories:

U: UniversalUA: Universal but with parental guidance for under-12sA: Adults only

and S.

What does S indicate?


For a specialised class of people (could be by profession for instance)


This is Teinopalpus imperialis, an endangered species of butterfly found in North India.

Connect this with a group of people that includes Raja Ravi Varma, M K Gandhi, Pandita Ramabai, and Francis Younghusband.


Kaiser-i-Hind (the nickname for this butterfly)Recipients of the medal.


The actor Jeremy Irons co-hosted the 1991 Tony Awards for theatre along with Julie Andrews. During this ceremony, he caused a stir by being the first person to wear what accessory?


The Red Ribbon for AIDS awareness


Pseudo-Q!

Middle Row (3 questions)

Second qualifier chosen after this

Answers after 3 questions

six all for one ashtadhyayi

... ... ...

... ... ...


By what name does the Greek historian Ptolemy refer to the islands of Bombay in his works?


Heptanesia


The first movement of which symphony, dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz and Count Razumovsky, begins with four notes that most of you would have heard of?


Beethoven’s Fifth


Identify


Three Colours Trilogy


Second Qualifier

Passing Round resumes (6 questions)


This part of India, which is also associated with some androphages, is said to have got its name from the Kurmavatar of Lord Vishnu.

Which place?


Kumaon

androphage == man-eaters


This person wrote a piece titled “The Dynamics of a Parti-cle” as a reaction to the defeat of William Gladstone from Oxford in the 1865 General Elections. This contains various definitions and postulates such as:

A COUPLE consists of a moving particle, raised to the degree M.A., and combined with what is technically called a "better half." The following are the principal characteristics of a Couple : (1) It may be easily transferred from point to point. (2) Whatever force of translation was possessed by the uncombined particle (and this is often considerable), is wholly lost when the Couple is formed. (3) The two forces constituting the Couple habitually act in opposite directions.

Who was the author?


Lewis Carroll


Dr. Harry Edwards, then a sociologist at San Jose University, came up with the idea that this gold medallist would also be associated with.

Who is he, and how did he contribute to Edwards' idea?


Bob Beamon, who pulled up his black socks in a show of solidarity with the two Black Power athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos who had been expelled the previous day of the 1968 Mexico Olympics (and look at their exposed socks).


You must be familiar with the term 'magnum opus'. “Opus” is a Latin word meaning “work”.

In Latin, what is the plural of “opus”?


Opera


“Saptapadi” is a Bengali film from 1961 starring the superhit pair of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. The film features an “Othello” sequence where the duo are playing Othello and Desdemona on stage.

The voices for this sequence were given by two other actors, who came from a rich Shakespearean tradition – both have also won National Film Awards for acting.

Who are these two?


Jennifer Kendall Kapoor and Utpal Dutt. They were members of Shakespearana, the travelling troupe founded by Kendall's father.


Here are 6 out of 9. What are the remaining three?

+ Aleutian

Guam + Northern Mariana Islands


Time Zones in the US.

The ones shown: Atlantic, Alaskan, Samoan, Hawaiian-Aleutian, Pacific, Chamorro

The remaining three: Eastern, Pacific, Mountain


Pseudo-Q!

Bottom Row (3 questions)

Last 3 questions for the quiz

Answers after 3 questions

six all for one ashtadhyayi

heptanesia beethoven's 5th tricolor

... ... ...


What ends thus:

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."


A Tale of Two Cities


Which part of Hong Kong, home to a significant number of its residents, gets its name from “nine dragons”?


Kowloon


John Landy was the second to achieve this feat, also in 1954.

No woman has done it yet; Svetlana Masterkova is the closest.

What feat?


Sub-four minute mile performance


six

6all for one

1ashtadhyayi

8

heptanesia7

beethoven's 5th5

tricolor3

tale of two cities2

kowloon9

four minute mile4

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