THE 2014 JB ROUND INTERACT QUIZ PRELIMINARIES

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Thirty questions

Write answers ONLY

No Negative marks

Top six (6) teams go to the finals

No devices of any sort must be seen

What is at the placed marked?

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Machu Picchu

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Google doodle as a tribute to whom/ what?

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Google doodle for “Paul the Octopus”

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•This cloth the most common backdrop material used by photographers for formal portrait backgrounds. In video production, it is used as a cheap green screen or blue screen.

•It gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, where it was first manufactured.

Name this cotton fabric.

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Muslin

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Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan and one other State borders Thailand. Name the other State.

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Perak

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What collective word for kittens connects it to Amazon.com?

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Kindle

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Nowadays an essential component of black tie dressing, this item of clothing was adapted by British officers in the Indian Subcontinent as an alternative to the waistcoat, and is called by the Anglicized version of its original Urdu name. Name it.

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Cummerbund

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Also known as Wild Marjoram, what is the common name of this herb from the mint family that you would perhaps associate with pizza?

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Oregano

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Which city looks like this when photographed from a satellite?

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Venice

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What event does this logo represent?  

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COMMONWEALTH GAMES KUALA LUMPUR 1998

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Meaning ‘black land’ in Sindarin, what was the name of the dwelling place of Sauron, in Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and home to the volcano Orodruin?

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Mordor

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•In particle physics, what name is given to the elementary particles that cause quarks to interact, and are indirectly responsible for the binding of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom?

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Gluons

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The 2013 United States Formula One Grand Prix was held in which city, the capital of its state? The 2014 event will be held here again.

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Austin (Texas)

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On 28 November 1949 Mohamed Hamzah, a Malaysian government architect, beat 329 others in a competition to design what?

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MALAYSIAN FLAG – (RENAMED JALUR GEMILANG in in 1997)

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Korean restaurants typically serve accompaniments like these.

What are they collectively called?

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Banchan

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This was the first prototype of which commonly used device?

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The Mouse for the Computer.

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What in the digital world, gets its name from this creature?

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The Firefox browser

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Who would wear this kind of footwear?

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Ballerinas

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Which two cities in Australia have hosted the Summer Olympics?

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Melbourne and Sydney

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This was the part of your armour that was meant to protect your hand in battle.

Today the word exists as part of a phrase that means “to issue a challenge”

Which word?

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Gauntlet “To throw down the Gauntlet”

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modify

Which bodily organ is affected by myopia?

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The eye

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What was the surname of the French husband and wife team who discovered radium?

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Curie

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What was APHRODITE, the Greek Goddess of Love, called by the Romans?

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Venus

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What three colors appear on the flag of France?

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Blue, White and Red

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HAWKS, EALES, VULTURES and OWLS are carnivorous birds belonging to a category that derives its name from the Latin for ‘to take by force’.

Name the category.(one word answer)

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Raptors

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After 27 years of confinement in his country’s maximum security prison at Robben Island, he emerged to be elected President of his country. Name him

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Nelson Mandela

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If you move vertically in an elevator and diagonally on an escalator, what do you move horizontally on?

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Travelator

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A consortium formed in 2007, consisting of 84 firms including Google, HTC, Dell, Sony & Samsung and called the Open Handset Alliance was instrumental in the development and adoption of which system whose name could also mean “a mobile robot with a human form?”

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Android

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If the 2010 World Cup brought world-wide attention to the vuvuzela, what phenomenon, now associated with various sporting events, did the 1986 World Cup introduce to the world?

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The Mexican wave

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Tioman Island is part of which State?

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Pahang

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What commercial name is Sodium bicarbonate sold under?

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Baking Soda

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