XIX Vidyasagar Rajan Memorial

Inter-College Quiz Finals

Quizmasters:

Varun Rajiv and Venkatesh S

Written Round – 8 questions

Clockwise – 12 questions

Anti-Clockwise – 12 questions

Differential Scoring Written Round 2 –

8 questions

Write Here, Write Now!

Written Round on Indian Tourism 8 visuals

+10 for each, no negatives +15 if only one or two teams get it

1. ID location

2. Identify location

3. Fill in the blanks and which state is this?

4. ID the location

5. ID the logo

6. ID the State

7. Fill in the blank; also give the tagline of Chattisgarh tourism; a kind of “counter point” to the overall India tourism campaign

8. Who is the brand ambassador and which state?

EXCHANGE SHEETS!

Answers Follow…

1. ID location

Kabini

2. Identify location

Tranquebar / Tharangambadi

3. Fill in the blanks and which state is this?

Four Dhams / Char Dham Uttarakhand

4. ID the location

Bishnupur

5. ID the logo

Dadra and Nagar Haveli Tourism

6. ID the State

Goa

7. Fill in the blank; also give the tagline of Chattisgarh tourism; a kind of “counter point” to the overall India tourism campaign

Hieun Tsang Credible Chattisgarh

8. Who is the brand ambassador and which state?

Sudarshan Pattnaik Odisha

Clockwise

12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass; no negatives

+15/-5 on Infinite Pounce

1

On the left is a sculpture called “Meeting Place”; on the right is the frieze below it. Where would you find this (specific)? What starts from here? (larger pics follows)

ANSWER

St Pancras Railway Station, London Starting point of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Its name refers to the very large—up to 25 centimetres long—tadpole (typical of the Pseudis genus), which in turn becomes an ordinary-sized frog, only about a quarter of its former length. What is its name, deriving from the Greek word meaning beyond belief/opinion?

2

ANSWER

Pseudis paradoxa or Paradoxical Frog

Though in 1980, X had tied Y's 1500m world record of 3:32.1, new rules would come into effect in 1981, which would have the effect of giving Y sole possession of the record.

However, X avoided this unusual removal of a record via rule change by setting a new record later in 1980 of 3:31.36.

ID X, Y and the rule change

3

ANSWER

• Steve Ovett

• Sebastian Coe

• New timing rules came into effect in 1981, which would recognise records over 400 m to the hundredth of a second. This had the effect of giving Coe sole possession of the record, as Coe ran 3:32.03 to Ovett's 3:32.09.

This is a 2006 novel by Daniel Handler. It is formatted as a collection of seventeen interconnected narratives from the points of view of different people in various sorts of love. Chapter titles include, “Immediately”, “Obviously”, “Soundly”, “Often”, “Barely”, “Truly” and so on.

The author’s main claim to fame is a successful series he wrote under a pen name.

Name the book and the series

4

ANSWER

• Adverbs

• Lemony Snickett

In Feb 1948, X was tuning his instrument before a live broadcast from a Bombay studio when an All India Radio producer asked him whether he could play something in honour of Y. In feverish inspiration, X produced a new raga and named it partly after the first name of Y.

Many years later, in 1982, X was associated once again in a work about the life of Y and won worldwide acclaim for the same.

Who are X and Y? What is the raga?

5

ANSWER

• Pandit Ravi Shankar • Mahatma Gandhi • Mohan Kauns raga

A certain team landed at the Tilbury docks near London on March 10, 1928, en route to Amsterdam. After witnessing this team play in the Folkstone Sports Festival, defending champions England, gold winners at the 1908 and 1920 Olympics, lost their enthusiasm.

Which team was it and what happened as a result of this?

6

ANSWER

• Indian hockey team • Great Britain did not contest in Field

Hockey in the Summer Olympics till India was its colony

This is a stamp honouring a freedom fighter and founder of the institutions of Gandhigram. She set up Gandhigram in 1947 to help rural poor for their growth and development in the areas of health, education, economic development and social welfare. As a deputy minister of education in the Union Cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, she was instrumental in making primary education free all over the country.

Name her and her famous father, who pioneered road transport in the Madras Presidency and founded a major business group

7

ANSWER

• Dr TS Soundram, daughter of TV Sundaram Iyengar, who founded the TVS Group

“We coined the phrase ‘_____ _____,’ ” Minna Fry, a former marketing director of Bloomsbury, recently said of the series. “The more people want, the less you give.” Ahead of each publication, she said, “we were extremely tantalizing—releasing little nuggets.” She laughed. “If you were really lucky, you’d get the title!”

Fill in the blanks and which series is she talking about?

8

ANSWER

• Denial Marketing

• Harry Potter series

The two characters on the left, are inspired in part by the lady on the right – the long-term editor of a famous magazine.

Name all three characters for 10 points or the TV show and the magazine for 5 points

9

ANSWER

• Peggy Olson and Joan Holloway from Mad Men

• Helen Gurley Brown of Cosmopolitan

“In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the “_______ _______" story. Instead of whodunits, they concentrate on the various steps involved in nabbing the culprit and proving the crime.

The comic strip in the next slide is cited as one of the earliest examples of this style

Fill in the blanks and name the comic

10

ANSWER

• Police Procedural

• Dick Tracy

In many Indian Hindu households, the 80th birthday of a male member is a grand event, celebrated as “Sathabhishekam”.

One of the milestones that the person is deemed to have achieved lends credence to the fact that it could correctly be called, “Sahasraabhishekam”.

What is the milestone?

11

ANSWER

• Seen a 1000 full moons

• Sahasra is 1000 is Sanskrit

The author of this book, Rowan Williams is the 104th person to occupy a certain post (currently).

This book is about the moral and spiritual sub-text of a famous series of novels.

What post does Rowan Williams hold and what is this book about?

12

ANSWER

• Archbishop of Canterbury

• Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Scores…

Anti-Clockwise

12 questions on Infinite Bounce +10 for direct and pass; no negatives

+15/-5 on Infinite Pounce

1. His epitaph reads:

Stop a while, traveller! Should Mother Bengal claim thee for her son. As a child takes repose on his mother's elysian lap, Even so here in the Long Home, On the bosom of the earth, Enjoys the sweet eternal sleep Poet X of the Y.

He’s usually known as WXY, but towards the end of his life regretted his infatuation with something that caused him to take on W, and perhaps for that reason is referred to only as XY on his epitaph.

ANSWER

Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

2. Where? Be specific. And why these particular countries’ flags there?

Twelve in all - Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, NZ, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the UK and the USA.

ANSWER

Ceremonial South Pole.

Original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty.

3. Bill Coffin mooted a concept he called the Vonnegut Capital Management Fund - named for Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, in which an entrepreneur makes a fortune by using a particular (completely arbitrary) method of picking companies to invest in, becoming the world’s richest man in the process.

Coffin attempted to correlate the fictional method of picking companies to the real world, and ended up with the following list:

[…] NN (NN, Inc.) IN (Intermec, Inc.) GG (Goldcorp, Inc.) O (Realty Income Corp.) O (Realty Income Corp.) D (Dominion Resources, Inc.) MA (Mastercard, Inc.) DE (Deere & Co.) T (AT&T, Inc.) HE (Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.) HE (Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.) A (Agilent Technologies, Inc.) VE (Veolia Environment) NS (NuStar Energy L.P.)

[…]

What method of picking companies?

ANSWER

Take letters of the words in the Bible and find corresponding company.

For example, “In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth” gives

IN TH EB EG IN NI

4. The scientific reasoning behind a ___ _____ ___ (X) is that the X acts as a Faraday cage.

While the underlying concept is good, the typical X fails in design and execution. An effective Faraday cage fully encloses whatever it's shielding, but a ___ that doesn't fully cover the head doesn't fully protect it.

In 2005, a group of MIT students tested the effectiveness of X at blocking various frequencies. While effective in most cases, they found that it amplified certain frequencies: those in the 2.6 Ghz and 1.2 Ghz bands.

What were they researching?

ANSWER

Wearing a tin foil hat to keep out prying eyes from your mindz.

5. Sometime in the last month, X, at 11544 days, eclipsed Y’s

record (d. October 20, 1964) for being the longest serving ex-

President of the United States.

Some outlets quipped that, as a measure of time, X’s ex-

Presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Zs.

X, Y, Z.

ANSWER

X - Jimmy Carter

Y - Herbert Hoover

Z - Iran Hostage Crisis

6. In the 1937 New Year’s Day England v Australia Test match, Day

1 started with a pitch that favoured batting, though the Australians

could not take advantage of it and finished the day at 6/181.

On Day 2, rain dramatically altered its course. With the sun drying

the pitch (covers could not be used during matches) captain Don

Bradman declared to get Eng in to bat while the pitch was ‘sticky’;

Eng also declared to get Oz back in, conceding a lead of 124.

Bradman took a decision to counter England’s declaration, and

ended up scoring 270 (375), a performance that Wisden rated in

2001 as the best Test match innings of all time.

What did Bradman do to counter England’s declaration?

ANSWER

He reversed the batting order – to protect

the batsman while the pitch dried out. Bradman

scored his 270 from coming in at No. 7.

7. An X is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell’s explosion that’s later filled with red resin - because ________ was a site of intense urban warfare, there are many of these scars, and marks of explosions that resulted in one/more deaths were filled with the resin.

X?

ANSWER

Sarajevo Rose – mortar rounds landing on concrete create a floral pattern, and street artists memorialised deaths in this fashion.

8. A sub-category of mangas, what is Manga Shimbun?

ANSWER

Manga

News.

9. In December 2011, X, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list, speculated that the United States had a hand in it.

"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology […] ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said.

"But this is very, very, very strange ... it's a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities.“

X, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, all leftists, are all a part of the list.

“We’ll have to take good care of Evo. Take care Evo!" he further said, about Evo Morales, who hasn’t joined the list yet.

"Fidel always told me, ‘X take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat ...'" he said.

What was X accusing the United States of doing?

ANSWER

He accused the United States of giving Latin American presidents cancer.

10. This is a variation on something more well-known. What, and for what specific reason?

In loudest din or hush profound

My ears catch evil's slightest sound

Let those who toll out evil's knell

Beware my power, the F-Sharp Bell!

ANSWER

That of Rot Lop Fan, a Green Lantern whose species lacks sight, and thus has no concepts of brightness, darkness, day, night, color, or lanterns.

11. I couldn’t find too much information about it on the Internet, but here’s a pretty good oral description:

The most famous brand is a product called Fixxo by Simco.

It is a liquidy thing with the consistency of fish glue, and dries with slightly white traces, or at least used to. Simco now has insane R&D which has made it smell nicer and dry more transparent.

Most kids in Punjab have made use of their dad's Fixxo to

stick projects/charts together for school on the nights that the stationery shop is shut. It will hold.

ANSWER

Sikh beard gel.

12. Who designed these album covers? He’s most famous for being the subject of a 2011 Oscar-nominated film.

ANSWER

Mr. Brainwash.

Scores…

Different Strokes

Written Round 8 questions

Differential scoring - +20/2, +15/4, +12/6, 10/8 - 5 if incorrect

1. ID the clothed man – he’s at work.

ANSWER

Spencer Tunick.

2. In the vein of Air Jordans and Nike LeBron, these Nike shoes were created as a design study for X (before other factors rendered this particular design study obsolete).

Who?

ANSWER

Jeremy Lin.

3. X will celebrate its centennial in 2013, and to that end introduced a new logo that’s an interpretation of the four-sided Tiffany timepiece that sits atop the information kiosk at the centre of the Main Concourse at X.

ANSWER

Grand Central Station.

4. Minimalist poster from a series about women scientists. Who is this one about?

ANSWER

Rachel Carson.

5. This is the control room of X, whose exteriors are a lot more recognisable/widely seen.

ANSWER

Battersea Power Station.

6. In the 2000 movie MI:2, the name of the deadly virus that everyone haggles over is ‘Chimera’.

What was the name of the antidote?

ANSWER

Bellerophon.

7. These photographs are from Rush, an upcoming film that focuses on the 1976 F1 Championship rivalry between X (Chris Hemsworth) and Y (Daniel Brühl) – name both.

ANSWER

X – James Hunt

Y – Niki Lauda

8. This tee references what?

ANSWER

Akira.

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Tie Breakers

1. The Battle Of ______ _______; King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Hardraada of Norway here on 25 September 1066. Which place?

ANSWER

• Stamford Bridge

2. A porn producer, Caballero Video, has agreed to withdraw its titles ‘Boston Cream Thigh’, ‘Chocolate Fudge Babes’, ‘Peanut Butter D-Cups’ after being sued by X, who contended that both the titles and its packaging mimicked X’s products.

X?

ANSWER

14.

ANSWER

Created for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom.

4. “Obliged to find an apartment of their own, my parents searched the neighbourhood and chose one within walking distance of the park. Showing them out after they had viewed it, the landlady said: "And you'll be glad to know I don't take Jews." Her mistake made clear to her, the anti-semitic landlady was renounced, and another apartment found. But her blunder left its mark. Back on the street my mother made a vow. Her unborn baby would have a label proclaiming his race to the world. He would be called ___ ____.”

X, in an interview, explaining his name.

ANSWER

Yehudi Menuhin.

5. What’s the concept behind this album art?

ANSWER

Representations of specific Black Sabbath songs: A screaming man in a straitjacket ("Paranoid") A voodoo shaman ("Voodoo") An angel and a devil ("Heaven and Hell") A knight with a sword emitting an eerie glow ("Neon Knights") A hooded man ("Black Sabbath") A goat head, hidden in the sand directly under the War Pig

("N.I.B.") A metallic-skinned man flexing his muscles ("Iron Man") A pig dressed as a sergeant ("War Pigs") A group of children inside a casket ("Children of the Grave")

floating on the water ("Children of the Sea") A man with a whip ("The Mob Rules") Lightning in the shape of a devil's head ("E5150")