LitSoc Buzzer Quiz Finals 2012

Aravindabharathi R and Vedanth Nair

Round 1

• All questions on the buzzer.

• +15/-10 for all buzzed questions.

• Questions answered wrongly will go to the audience.

• Questions which no teams buzz for will go on bounce, with a marking scheme of +10/0.

ID the oft-parodied ads.

• This is a 2005 noir crime-comedy film directed by Shane Black and starring Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Monaghan.

• It gets its title from film critic Pauline Kael’s second book. According to her, it is "perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.”

• The title itself is a reference to James Bond, and the moniker has been used to refer to him in international markets.

• X is perhaps the most influential martial artist of all time. In addition to being a martial artist and teacher, he was an actor, philosopher, film director, producer, and screen writer.

• X’s lasting contribution is the art of Jeet Kune Do, which he created by combining different fighting styles. X has been the star and subject of numerous films.

• Y’s worldwide fame increased considerably after a 2008 film loosely based on his life, in which he was played by Donnie Yen.

• Y’s legacy is the global practice of Wing Chun Kung Fu, although he is perhaps most well-known today for being X’s martial arts teacher.

• ID X and Y.

Bruce Lee / Ip Man

• X has been controversially nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1997.

• The former British poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion has argued that X’s lyrics should be studied in schools. His lyrics have been compared to the poetry of Eliot, Keats and Tennyson.

• X’s songs have often been used as protest anthems, especially during the US Civil rights and anti-war movements. ID X.

• _____ is a German sports clothing company founded in 1948 by Adolf Dassler, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik , which he owned along with his older brother Rudolf. It was registered in 1949 and is currently based in the German city of Herzogenaurach.

• After a misunderstanding during World War 2, Rudolf left GDS to found his own company, which is also based in Herzogenaurach. Name this company.

• The word ______ is commonly used in modern English as a mild exclamation or insult.

• The word was derived from the French “bougre”, from “Bulgar”, a term used to refer to Bulgarians. This was due to the medieval sect of the Bogomils, who originated in western Europe and was accused by the church of being devoted to the practice of sodomy.

• What’s the good word?

Buggery

Connect.

• This song by Simon and Garfunkel was written for the soundtrack of The Graduate (1967).

• One of the most discussed aspects of the song is the mention of baseball star Joe DiMaggio’s name in the last verse.

• When asked why he chose his name, Simon replied, "It's about syllables, Dick. It's about how many beats there are."

• DiMaggio initially complained that he had not gone anywhere, but soon dropped his complaints after a cordial meeting with Paul Simon when he explained what the lines meant.

• Which song are we talking about?

Mrs. Robinson

• _______ was founded by J. C. Jacobsen in 1947 and named after his son ____.

• He set up the ______ laboratory in 1975 which worked on scientific problems related to brewing.

• The species of yeast used to make pale lager, Saccharomyces _______ensis, was isolated at the Laboratory and was named after it.

The _________ line is a 10-km long defensive line made of dragon's teeth that was built during the second World War between Bassins and Prangins, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Their purpose was to stop tank invasions. 2,700 9-ton concrete blocks make up the defences.

Toblerone

In the advanced teachings of ________ is the story of Xenu (sometimes Xemu), introduced as the tyrant ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy." According to this story, 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and detonated hydrogen bombs in the volcanoes. The thetans then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today.

Scientology

• The _______ tower is located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland.

• The Tower consists of 15 searchlights with prisms that act as mirrors, reflecting the column of light vertically into the sky from a 10-metre wide wishing well.

• The tower is lit every year from 9 October, through 8 December.

• A panel beneath it reads:-

I dedicate this light tower to ___X____

my love for you is forever

____Y____

October 9th 2007

ID X and Y.

X – John Lennon

Y – Yoko Ono

The imagine peace tower

• The __X__ test is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of ___X__ are recorded and then analyzed. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder.

• The test is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann _____X____.

• ____X___ is also Walter Kovacs’ alter ego.

Rorschach

Sibir newspaper, July 2, 1908 On the 17th of June, around 9 a.m. in the morning, we observed an unusual natural occurrence. In the north Karelinski village the peasants saw to the north west, rather high above the horizon, some strangely bright (impossible to look at) bluish-white heavenly body, which for 10 minutes moved downwards. The body appeared as a "pipe. As the body neared the ground (forest), the bright body seemed to smudge, and then turned into a giant billow of black smoke, and a loud knocking (not thunder) was heard, as if large stones were falling, or artillery was fired. All buildings shook. At the same time the cloud began emitting flames of uncertain shapes. This is an article depicting which event?

Tunguska event

This is an English translation of an excerpt from a song by Swedish DJ Basshunter. “We're sitting here in Ventrilo and playing a bit of __X __. And pushing on and owning With the opponents we're playing We're sitting here in Ventrilo and playing a bit of ___X__. And running around and creeping And the opponents we're sleeping.” An English version of the song called "All I Ever Wanted" was released on July 7, 2008. What is X?

DOTA (Defence Of The Ancients)

• The Pokémon Jynx first appeared in the episode "The Ice Cave!“ but this episode was later banned and not aired in most countries including the US.

• Jynx was later redesigned and coloured purple to look like this->

• Why was the episode banned in the first place?

Jynx’s resemblance to Blackface

Leader: Ringa pakia! Slap the hands against the thighs!

Uma tiraha! Puff out the chest.

Turi whatia! Bend the knees!

Hope whai ake! Let the hip follow!

Waewae takahia kia kino! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!

Leader: Ka mate, ka mate I die, I die,

Team: Ka ora' Ka ora' I live, I live

Leader: Ka mate, ka mate I die, I die,

Team: Ka ora Ka ora " I live, I live,

All: Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru

This is the hairy man

A Upane! Ka Upane! Up the ladder, Up the ladder

Upane Kaupane" Up to the top

Whiti te rā,! The sun shines!

Hī! Rise!

Why is this well known in the world of sport?

The Haka

• Kuru is an incurable nervous disorder caused by a prion found in humans, which was first discovered among the tribes of Papua New Guinea.

• ‘Kuru’ means to shake in the local language, a reference to the body tremors which are typical of the disease.

• Beginning in 1961, Dr. Michael Alpers conducted research into its transmission and found out that a local funerary rite was responsible. When this practice was curbed by the colonial government, rates of infection plummeted.

• What was this unique dietary preference?

Cannibalism

• In ancient India, cutting off the nose was one of the common punishments prescribed for adulterers.

• To help rehabilitate them, __X__ invented the practice of Rhinoplasty, a procedure in plastic surgery used to correct and reconstruct the form and function of the nose.

• He was also a pioneer in cataract surgery, and would practise on pickled onions for the same.

• ID this man who also introduced the concept of dulling a patient’s pain with wine during surgery.

Sushrutha

ID the fast bowler.

Lasith Malinga

THE END