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Points - Art (5) + Artist (5)All correct - Bonus 10

ANSWERSExchange Sheets.

Points - Art (5) + Artist (5)All correct - Bonus 10

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1. American Gothic - Grant Wood

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2. Nighthawks - Edward Hopper

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3. Chop Suey - Edward Hopper 

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4. The Kiss - Gustav Klimt

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5. The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí

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15 questions. Open on Pounce.

1. Disney’s Aladdin tribute to whom ?

Recently Disney added this tribute at the end of the movie ‘Aladdin’.

Robin William’s who voiced Genie

2. Identify the 2 Views

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2.

1. Worm's Eye View 2. Bird’s Eye View

3. Ad for which Product ?

A glorious eruption of vibrantly-colored flower petals – 8 million of them – has flooded through a small village in Costa Rica.

The surreal and beautiful sight is part of Sony’s advertisement campaign for their new X.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this advertisement stunt is that these billowing waves of petals are real. It took the creative team behind the endeavor and the inhabitants of the village more than two weeks to collect the 8 million flower petals used, which ended up weighing about 3.5 tons.

Identify the product X.

Bonus (+5) : If you give the significance of 8 million petals used.

4K Ultra HDTV

8 million flower petals represents the number of pixels on the 4K TV’s screen.

4. Why it created controversy ?

The following is a recent initiative done by a shopping mall called World Metropolis centre in Dalian, north-east China.

They are painted pink and around 30 cm wider than normal spaces.

"Respectfully reserved for women"

30cm extra space suggests that women are bad drivers which created controversy.

5. FITB

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a French-founded (now international and federal) humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases.

Founded in 1971, this organization is known in most of the world by its French name or simply as MSF, but in Canada and the United States the name ______ ______ _______ is commonly used.

A number of other non-governmental organizations (NGO) have adopted the _____ ______ tag, inspired by their name.

Many other organizations adapted ‘without borders’ from this.

6. Michigan inmates are going get black-and-white striped uniforms. Why ?

A Michigan sheriff gave his inmates a wardrobe change to keep them from looking “cool.”

“For me, it was an easy decision,” he told Reuters.

“It was a cost savings and it breaks away from that cultural coolness. It’s not cool to be an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail.”

A local Michigan sheriff is afraid that Orange Is The New Black, the hit Netflix series about female prisoners, has made orange jumpsuits a popular fashion statement. So now inmates at Saginaw County Jail have to wear black-and-white striped jumpsuits instead of orange ones.

“Some people think it’s cool to look like an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail with wearing all orange jumpsuits out at the mall or in public,” Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel told The Saginaw News and MLive.com. “We do have our inmates out sometimes doing work in the public, and I don’t want anyone to confuse them or have them walk away.”

7. Why the demand increased suddenly ?

A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, video cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field.

Recently there was a huge demand for the handheld monopod.

People also started referencing the same as ‘X Stick’.

Selfie Stick

8. Disadvantages of ?

Greenland takes as much space on the map as Africa, when in reality Africa's area is 14 times greater and Greenland's is comparable to Algeria's alone.

Greenland as larger than Australia; in actuality, Australia is more than three and a half times larger than Greenland.

Alaska takes as much area on the map as Brazil, when Brazil's area is nearly five times that of Alaska.

Finland appears with a greater north-south extent than India, although India's is greater.

Antarctica appears as the biggest continent, being infinitely large, although it is actually the fifth in terms of area.

The Mercator Map Projection – Disadvantages

Many major online street mapping services (Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, and others) use a variant of the Mercator projection for their map images called Web Mercator or Google Web Mercator.

9. Funda

A decision by the Sydney Morning Herald to use X on its front page has made it the focus of much attention, and ridicule, on social media.

The same issue happened during the announcement of Higgs Boson discovery.

There are many online hate campaigns related to this.

Using ‘Comic Sans’ font

10. Identify Y and tell why was this in news during 2014 ?

The Okavango River is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa. It begins in Angola, where it is known as the Cubango River. Further south it forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia, and then flows into Botswana.

The Okavango does not have an outlet to the sea, instead it forms Y. Which is considered as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.

Y is home to the largest remaining elephant population on Earth—every winter more than 80,000 of them arrive here to meet the oncoming floods, leaving with the first signs of rain in the northeast. This vast unfenced landscape allows them to live and migrate as they have for thousands of years. It is also home to the keystone populations of lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog, cheetah, hippo, and much else.

Okavango delta Declared 1000th heritage site

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Royal Caribbean International’s ‘Quantum of the Seas’ is billed as ‘the world’s most futuristic and advanced ship’ which will officially sets sail in November, 2014.

It has something first of their kind at sea and anywhere in the world. (shown in next slide)

Bionic Bar Robotic bartenders will mix and deliver cocktails

12. First ?

Designed by Italian engineers

Espresso Machine for Space

Designed by Italian aerospace engineers, It's an espresso machine.

Known as the ISSpresso, is due to be delivered to the International Space Station in 2015.

Caffeine shots will help astronauts "feel closer to home", according to the manufacturers.

ISS – International Space Station

13. What are we talking about ?

Nicaragua's iconic volcano, Momotombo, is featured in this stamp released in 1900.

In 1902, this stamp was sent to every U.S. senator and congressman which influenced the historical decision.

As a result, Nicaragua lost something.

Nicaragua lost the canal to Panama

Initially the US was in favor of Nicaragua Canal.

This stamp was sent by Panamanian lobbyist as ‘An official witness to volcanic activity in Nicaragua.’

Recently, Nicaragua's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved a plan to grant a Chinese company, the Hong Kong–based HKND Group, exclusive rights to build a canal spanning the country.

14. Identify X and Y

X YBoth diseases were in news during 2014.

Fatality Rate of 90%

Shares 12 symptoms out of 17

Airborne Body Fluids

Manmade Natural

Fictional Real

Fictional Real

Simian Flu (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)Ebola Virus

15. Why Greenpeace came up with this ad ?

Shells Artic Drilling

Lego’s partnership with Shell dates back to the 1960s, and ran into the 1990s with Shell-branded Lego sets, before the toymaker switched to a fictional oil company called Octan, which went on to feature as the corporation headed by the villain President Business in The Lego Movie.

Lego has distributed more than 16m Shell-branded toys via petrol stations in 26 countries.

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15 Questions

16. French biopic about ?

Aung San Suu Kyi

17. Funda

A)

B)

A – Removing Scotland's Flag From Union JackB – Including Wales Flag

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England Scotland Northern Ireland Great Britain

Wales

Wales is not currently represented in the union jack because it was part of the English kingdom when the flag was designed.

18. Identify X

Taiwanese airline, EVA Air, is launching a X themed aircraft in collaboration with Japanese company Sanrio. This is done to celebrate X’s 40th birthday.

International cult icon X was created in 1974 by Japanese company Sanrio. Her instantly recognisable face has appeared on a massive array of merchandise from stationary, furniture and toys to sewing machines, toilet paper and even teeth grills.

She recently caused controversy when Sanrio announced that rather than being a ___, she is actually a 'cheerful and happy little girl ... who lives in London with her mama (Mary White), papa (George White), and her twin sister Mimmy.' 

As fans will already know, her birthday is November 1 and her favorite saying is 'You can never have too many friends.'

Hello Kitty

19. Indian version of ?

Game of Thrones

Audio

20. The 2015 Ikea catalogue ad parodying what and whom ?

Apple, Jonathan Ive (Senior Vice President of Design)

21. Identify

Identify this creature which resembles 18th century war ship of particular country with full sail.

Its not a single organism, instead its colony of individuals called zooids with specific function. It can deliver a painful string which can be deadly sometimes.

Picture

Portuguese Man o' War

22. Identify the Movie and the Country ?

Fictional kingdom 'Arendelle' in the film Frozen is based on Arendal, Norway.

The look and feel of Arendelle, however, is based on the city of Bergen in Norway’s western fjordlands

23. Identify X and Y ?

A term X was coined by Alexandra Dao while commenting on a video created by internet entrepreneur Amit Gupta. The clip, which went viral, showed Gupta and companions on top of Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco before a camera pulled back for a breath-taking zoom-out.

Although it was shared as “Bernal Hill Y” in Vimeo it gave rise the term X which went viral. X is taken from a W.

And some say X will be next big thing after Y.

Recently New Zealand Tourism started using W to promote tourism.

X – Dronies

Y – Selfies

W – Drones

24. Funda

TorontoStar, a Canadian newspaper recently tweeted this.

Which was ridiculed in social media. Why ?

Attenborough confusion

25. Funda

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in Mar, 2014.

 Canadian Version – Crimea is shown as part of Ukrain

Russian Version – Crimea included in Russia

26. Funda

27. Identify the book.

50th Anniversary edition of which children book uses this cropped version of a photo used in a ‘2008 Numero magazine’ feature completely unrelated to author and the book in question.

When Penguin posted the artwork for their new edition of this book on Facebook, users guessed it was a new cover for Lolita or The Valley of the Dolls.

It also ranked top in ‘The five worst book covers ever’ list by The Guardian.

According to a page on the Penguin blog, the Modern Classics cover "looks at the children at the centre of the story, and highlights the way author's writing manages to embrace both the light and the dark aspects of life."

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Clue

Lost fifth chapter from the book is called ‘Fudge Mountain’ and has two new characters, Timmy Troutbeck and Wilbur Price.

28. Which Airlines?

29. Origin of which word ?

Lumiere brothers are credited to be first filmmakers in history.

Lumiere brothers projected films at 18 fps, slow enough to result in the appearance of ___________.

Hence the early nickname for the movies, "the ________" or "the _______." That figure eventually increased to 24 fps, and has remained there, for the most part, ever since.

Note: All the dashes are not same.

Flickering – Flickers / Flicks

30. Identify the narrator and the famous lines.

David AttenboroughWhat a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

VISUAL CONNECT

Non – Exhaustive, 6 Slides No Negatives One Guess Per Slide

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3 +40

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Connect

Gherkin Shard Razor Cheesegrater Scalpel

Tower Walkie-Talkie

Nicknames of Skyscraper's in London

30 St Mary Axe  -> Gherkin

London Bridge Tower -> The Shard

Strata SE1 -> Razor

Leadenhall Building -> The Cheesegrater

52-54 Lime Street - > Scalpel Tower

20 Fenchurch Street  -> Walkie-Talkie

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