Naalam Quiz Finals (Nuals, Kochi)

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Bodhi- Finals Presented by NUALS QUIZ FORUM

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2. 6 Rounds, all Pounce (except theme) +10 -5 in case of a pounced wrong answer 3. Lets Play 4. Round 1 5. 1. This is a monument on the northern marginof the Tagus river estuary, in the civil parishof Santa Maria de Belem, Lisbon . Locatedalong the river were ships departed toexplore and trade with India and the Orient.The Monument represented a romanticizedidealization of the Portuguese explorationthat was typical of the Estado Novo regime ofAntonio de Oliveira Salazar. 6. The Answer is 7. The Monument to the Discoveries 8. 2.X: "If anyone at my funeral has a long face, Illnever speak to him again."Y (at Xs funeral): "Chaplin wasnt the funniest,I wasnt the funniest, this man was thefunniest."Identify X and Y. 9. The Answer is 10. X- Stan LaurelY- Buster Keaton 11. 3. The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State ofTennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, was a famousAmerican legal case in 1925 in which a high schoolteacher, John Scopes, was accused of violatingTennessees Butler Act. The trial was deliberately stagedin order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton,Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was found guiltyand fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on atechnicality. The trial served its purpose of drawingintense national publicity, as national reporters flockedto Dayton to cover the big-name lawyers who hadagreed to represent each side. What was it about 12. The Answer is 13. John Scopes, was accused of violatingTennessees Butler Act, which made itunlawful to teach evolution in anystate-funded school. 14. 4. K Street is a major thoroughfare in theWashington, D.C. known as a center fornumerous think tanks, law firms, and advocacygroups. In political discourse, "K Street" is thecommon and often negative metonym for apeculiar kind of industry. It has been a subjectof much debate and discussion due to itsalleged corrupting influence in politics. Whatare we talking about? 15. The Answer is 16. 5. The ________________ delusion is a typepersecutory/grandiose delusion in whichpatients believe their lives are staged plays orreality television shows. The term was coined in2008 by brothers Joel and Ian Gold, apsychiatrist and a neuro-philosopher,respectively. It is not officially recognized and isnot separately listed in the Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of the American PsychiatricAssociation, but could be classified as a"Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type" 17. The Answer is 18. Truman Show delusion 19. 6. M.O. Mathai (1909-1981) was assistant to Indias firstPrime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Mathai workedwith the United States Army in India before becomingan assistant to Nehru in 1946. He resigned in 1959following Communist allegations of misuse of power.Later he wrote two books on his alleged experiencesof Nehru and his times, which became controversial.It has been alleged that Mathai was a plant by theAmerican intelligence agencies to scour Nehruhousehold. "One of Mathais letters (UO NoD/S13170 of 2/12/1954) dug out by the Delhi-basednon-profit trust had become controversial in 2006.Why? 20. The Answer is 21. A confusion was triggered off by a by M OMathai, secretary to the then prime ministerJawaharlal Nehru that "a small amount of Rs200 odd was received by minister of ExternalAffairs from our embassy in Tokyo along withthe ashes and other remains of Netaji SubhasChandra Bose. This was contrary to Indiangovernments statements that the ashes werestill in Renkoji temple in Tokyo. 22. Image Connect Round 23. 1. Specific connection. 24. The Answer is 25. Educational trains in India 26. 2. Specific connection 27. The Answer is 28. Predictions by Jules Verne Electric Submarine Skywriting News casting Taser Gun 29. 3. Specific connection 30. The Answer is 31. Sound Tracks by Zakir hussain 32. 4. Id the artist 33. The Answer is 34. Damien Hirst Britains richest living artist 35. 5.Whats the Genre? 36. The Answer is 37. Found footage 38. 6. Connect the logos 39. The Answer is 40. Acquistions by facebook Instagram Face.com Lightbox.com Spool 41. Audience Question 42. The Answer is 43. Sailor and Nurse from VJ day 44. Round 2 45. 1ConnectKevin CarterGreg MarinovichKen OosterbroekJoo Silva 46. The Answer is 47. Bang-Bang Club 48. 2.X was a propaganda poster produced by the Britishgovernment in 1939 during the beginning of the SecondWorld War. It had only limited distribution with no publicdisplay, and thus was little known. The poster wasrediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number ofprivate companies and used as the decorative theme for arange of products. It was believed there were only two knownsurviving examples of the poster outside government archivesuntil a collection of 15 originals was brought in to theAntiques Roadshow in 2012 by the daughter of an ex-RoyalObserver Corps member. 49. The Answer is 50. 3. Id this cricket team and itsimportance? 51. The Answer is 52. The Australian Aboriginal cricket team inEngland in 1868 was a side composed ofAustralian Aborigines which toured Englandbetween May and October of that year, thusbecoming the first organised group ofAustralian cricketers to travel overseas. 53. 4. Remastered CD versions of the Pink Floyd album AtomHeart Mother contain a card of "Breakfast Tips". On oneside is a recipe for a "Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast",Reference to this recipe is made in the comedic novel IServed the King of England first published in 1971 byCzech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopiandish cooked for a visit to Prague by the Emperor HaileSelassie. Although the recipe has been published in anumber of cookbooks and recipe webpages, the recipe isoften treated with skepticism, and many think it might bean exaggeration of a real, less impressive, culinaryexperience. What dish? 54. The Answer is 55. Stuffed Camel. 56. 5. The phrase originates from a public execution in18th century England, when an audienceplatform next to the scaffold collapsed andkilled twenty onlookers, to the amusement ofthe man who was about to be beheaded What phrase 57. The Answer is 58. 6. X was a retired intelligence agent who followed thedeathbed wish of his dying father, Jarvis, to carry onthe tradition of serving his fathers erstwhileemployers. He is very popular, having received anomination for the R.A.C. "Squiddy" Award for FavoriteSupporting Character in 1994 and for Best Character in2001. He was also nominated for the Wizard Fan Awardfor Favorite Supporting Male Character in 1994. He is afan of the Artemis Fowl novels. He had been an actorin Britains theatre. Last seen he was enjoying apeaceful holiday after retirement in Florence. ID 59. The Answer is 60. Alfred Pennyworth 61. Azed 10 per letter 5 if all the answers are correct. 62. Two movies A and B from 1969 made theacademy awards of the same year quitememorable. A a French language movie byCosta Gravas was nominated for C and D,whereas B an English language movie byJohn Schlesinger was the first E movie to benominated for D and won D. Identify A to E. 63. The Answer is 64. A- Z B- Midnight Cowboy C- Best foreign language film D- Best film E- X-rated 65. Audience QuestionID the LOGO 66. Ans- Open Leaks, the alternative to wikileaks 67. Round 3 68. 1. In 1991, the name of X became the object ofa dispute between Y and the newlyindependent Republic of X. The Republic of Xis accused of appropriating symbols andfigures that are historically considered partsof Ys culture (such as Vergina Sun, which isdepicted in its flag), and of promoting theirredentist concept of a United X, 69. The Answer is 70. X- Macedonia Y- Greece 71. 2. X was formed in 2001, and based in Moyock,North Carolina as a company that would trainUS Navy SEALs for combat. X later evolved anddiversified, and claims to have been absolutelysuccessful in certain theatres. ID X. 72. The Answer is 73. The largest of the U.S. StateDepartments private securitycontractors 74. 3. X is latin for nourishing mother. It was usedin ancient Rome as a title for various mothergoddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and inMedieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary.Y, (derivative from the same verb) is a Latinnoun that means "foster son".Solve for x and y. 75. The Answer is 76. X- "alma mater Y- Alumini 77. 4. Named after the westernized-name of its Russian inventor, whopatented the device in 1928, it is an early electronic musicalinstrument controlled without discernible physical contact fromthe player. The controlling section usually consists of two metalantennas which sense the position of the players hands andcontrol oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude(volume) with the other, so it can be played without beingtouched. 78. The Answer is 79. Theremin 80. 5. Arthur Gilligan first visited India in 1926 and in ameeting attended by the Maharaja of Patialapromised to press for its inclusion in the X if allthe promoters in the land came together toestablish a single entity. An assurance was givenand a meeting held in Delhi on November 21,1927, and hence Y was formed in 1928 underTamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. Identify X and Y 81. The Answer is X- ICC Y-BCCI 82. 6.The idea of X is very simple, and it is probablethat it has been invented and reinventednumerous times. The word X dates to 1784, andmay have derived by combining the wordstongue and slap. The first references to X in itsmodern context date to the 1920s. Alternativelyit may be a word of Roman origin being relatedto the Roman tradition of selling red apples.Modern X is said to have been invented in 1908by an American named George Smith of NewHaven, Connecticut 83. The Answer is 84. Lollipop 85. Audience Question The Department X was in news a year ago when itcashed in on the home teams win in a prestigioustournament, by connecting it to William Blakesfamous poem, Tyger and had 150 billboardsmade of the same to promote public safety, withthe poem, Knight Knight, Burning Bright, DriveSafe, Day and Night. The same department wasmet with uproarious applause recently on socialnetworking sites certain posters went viral whichdepicted the Beatles and was being used by themto educate Jaywalkers with the Tagline, If theycan, why cant you? which is the department? 86. Theme connect +30,25 15 15 10 10 5 10 87. Id the featured person? 88. 2. The national flag of this country consisted ofa Buddhist khorlo prayer wheel withthe gankyil as the central element. Until 1967, the previous flag showed a verycomplex design with a fanciful borderand religious pictograms surrounding the khorlo. A more simple design was adopted in 1967because of the difficulty in duplication of thecomplex flag. The border became solid red, thepictograms were removed and the wheel wasredesigned. 89. 3 .ID the Band featured 90. 4. In the early hours of 17 September, the Indian armyentered Bidar. Meanwhile, forces led by the 1stArmoured regiment were at the town of Chityal about60 km from the capital city, while another column tookover the town of Hingoli. By the morning of the 5th dayof hostilities, it had become clear that the army andthe Razakars had been routed on all fronts and withextremely heavy casualties. At 5PM of 17 September aceasefire was announced thus ending the armedaction. What are we talking about? 91. 5. ID the war memorial. 92. The Answer is 93. Tippu Sultan Sikkhim Pragaash Operation Polo Colechal War Memorial. 94. Individual residencies Mysore Sikkhim Kashmir Hyderbad Travancore 95. Thank You.. 96. Morgan Robertson is a famous American authorof short stories and novels, and the first personto apply a patent for the periscope. He is bestknown for his short novel __________, whosemain plot is said to have striking similarities to adisaster that happened fourteen years after thebook was written, thus being the subject ofdiscussion for many supernatural theorists andthe like. Identify the book/Context 97. One Word Connect The term ______________is applied to organisms that havebeen rediscovered as being still alive after having been widelyconsidered extinct for years, without ever having appeared inthe fossil record. In this last case, the term Lazarus taxonapplied in neontology. Auto-resuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation isthe spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts atresuscitation. Its occurrence has been noted in medicalliterature at least 25 times since 1982. The phenomenon, is related to the dynamics of the induceddefects in the semiconductor bulk where it was found out thatat temperatures below 130 kelvin (about -143 degrees Celsius),dead detectors apparently come back to life 98. Originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy andpopularized by a play written by John Guare, It isa theory that everyone and everything is six orfewer steps away, by way of introduction, fromany other person in the world, so that a chain of"a friend of a friend" statements can be made toconnect any two people. This phenomenon hasgained tremendous relevance due to thedevelopment of the Internet and SocialNetworking.