Saarang 2014 SpEnt quiz finals

Saarang SpEnt QuizThe Finals

Aravindabharathi R, SahilMathur, Shivamshu Prabhakar

January 11, 2014

Rules

• 4 dry rounds with 10 questions each, with theme roundsinterspersed.

• +10/-10 on pounce• +10/0 on bounce• Standard Chennai bounce rules apply

1

If Xerneas and Yveltal are the most two most-recent ones, what werethe first two?

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Charizard and Blastoise

The Secret Footballer

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Fake trailers which got made into movies.

Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun were fake trailers which wereplayed along with the Grindhouse double-feature.Cannibal! the Musical was a 3-minute trailer made by South Parkcreators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for film class, which then gotmade into a film.Clown, whose fake trailer claimed that it is directed by Eli Roth, isactually being directed by Eli Roth.

4Despite his visibly poor results, this 2011 national Russian golf cham-pion is determined to play in the 2016 Olympics, having previously wonan Olympic gold at Sydney in another sport. Who is this perseveringsportsperson?

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

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Harold Russell was an army instructor who lost both his hands whilemaking a training video. He was profiled in a video about rehabilitatingveterans entitled Diary of a Sergeant. This impressed director WilliamWyler greatly, and he cast him as Homer Parish in his film The BestYears of Our Lives, for which he won the Oscar award for Best Sup-porting Actor. He also won an honourary Oscar for “bringing hope andcourage to his fellow veterans”.Haing S. Ngor was a Cambodian gynaecologist and surgeon who playedDith Pran in The Killing Fields, for which he won the Oscar for the BestSupporting Actor.What unique distinction do these two share?

Only two non-professional actors to win Oscars

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Pesäpallo is the national sport of Finland. An exhibition sport at the1952 Helsinki Olympics, it is very similar to baseball, so much so thatit is often called ‘Finnish baseball’.What is the primary difference?

The ball is pitched vertically

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The playable characters in this game are archaeologist, barbarian, cave-man, healer, knight, monk, priest, ranger, rogue, samurai, tourist,valkyrie, and wizard.The aim of the game is to search the Mazes of menace for the Amulet ofYendor. Successfully finding the Amulet finishes the game, and grantsthe character immortality and ascension to demi-god status.The game itself has been in development since 1987, and perhaps dueto this, nearly every action performable by players has been thoughtup by the Dev Team, leading to the term TDTTOE – “The DevTeamThinks Of Everything”.Which game?

Nethack

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During her career, she won 700 matches and lost just 25, winning 148singles titles (including 21 Grand Slams), spending 688 weeks at WorldNo. 1, going undefeated for 10 years between 30 January 2003 till sheretired in February 2013, winning 470 consecutive matches, losing only18 games and being taken to match point only once.Who is this legendary sportsperson?

Esther Vergeer

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The Mumbai-based Hindi film industry is called Bollywood, and theTamil film industry, based in Kodambakkam, is called Kollywood. Wealso have Sandalwood for Kannada cinema and Mollywood for Malay-alam.However, there are two such “woods” where Bengali cinema is made.One of them is Tollywood, named after the Tollygunge area of Kolkata.Where is the other one located?

Dhallywood in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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It is said to have happened on August 31, 2004. A foul ball hit byManny Ramirez struck the then sixteen-year-old Lee Gavin in the crowd,knocking out two of his teeth. Ramirez was Lee Gavin’s favourite playerand Gavin lived on a farm owned by X. That same day, the team inquestion’s fearsome rivals suffered their worst defeat in team history.What is said to have happened?

Answer

Curse of the Bambino reversed, Team in question are the Red Sox.Rivals: Yankees, X: Babe Ruth

11. Name the guy on the right. How did he inspire#1 and #2?

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Sophocles, Retellings of Oedipus Rex

12. Event, place, year?

Asian games, 1951, Delhi

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X can easily be mistaken for his brother Y, who works in the samefield. God knows what their parents were thinking. X spent seven yearsabroad in Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand, and claims to have“closely observed” the “waves of emotions” experienced by hundredsof NRIs while abroad.After returning to India, X has, among other things, helped Y script aBollywood film. While his brother mainly caters to the college-goingcrowd, X’s works target married office-goers in their 20s.When X first announced that he was going to follow in his brother’sfootsteps, there was a collective groan from those who thought that hewas simply trying to cash in on Y’s success. However, X claims thathe has not received any criticism about his works so far. Name X andY.

Ketan and Chetan Bhagat

14

2013 standings. Whose name has been blanked out?

Marc Márquez

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This film’s opening credits are curiously devoid of any text. DirectorFrançois Truffaut consciously decided to do so as a nod to both thefilm’s theme and also the ending.Since the film itself deals with a mostly-illiterate society, it is only fittingthat this effect be reproduced in the credits. It could also be a tributeto the ending, where the conversion of the written word into speechsaves it.Which film are we talking about?

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2013–2014 : Borussia Dusseldorf2012–2013 : SV Werder Bremen2010–2011 : TSV Graefelfing2009–2010 : San Sebastian de Los ReyesWhose club career?

Achanta Sharath Kamal

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This annual list was first compiled in 2004 by an executive calledFranklin Leonard, who contacted his friends who worked in studiosacross Hollywood to find out the top movie scripts which hadn’t yetbeen produced. While it may not be any indicator of the quality of thescripts themselves, it is a collection of the most-liked screenplays of theyear. Graduates of this list include Juno,The King’s Speech, SlumdogMillionaire, Argo, and Stoker.Considering that featuring in this list is one of the best possible thingsthat can happen to an unproduced screenplay, what is this list called,somewhat counter-intuitively?

The Black List

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1978, India in Pakistan, 1st Test, FaisalabadName both.

Zaheer Abbas, Sunil Gavaskar

19. Connect to a movie.

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Falling Down

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The name is derived from a similar event in horse racing, where horsesand riders raced from one town’s X to the next, which were used asmarkers due to their visibility over long distances. Along the way, theyinevitably had to jump streams and low stone walls separating estates.The modern version originated at the University of Oxford sports in1860 and has been an Olympic event since the inception of the mod-ern Olympics.Name the event.

Steeplechase

21. Who?

The toys came first; the cartoons later. Mattel had been approachedby George Lucas for a licensing deal, which they declined due to thelarge advance which Lucas asked of them. Created in an effort to boostlagging toy sales, he quickly became of the company’s best-selling toy-lines.However, after the release of a certain movie starring Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger in 1982, rumours began to spread which claimed that he was essen-tially a sanitised version of the movie’s titular character, with changesmade so that this children’s toy could not be accused of promoting afilm containing nudity and violence. This was compounded by the factthat Mattel was the official toy-partner for the movie, and culminatedin a lawsuit against Mattel from a company called CPI (__ properties).Mattel won the lawsuit, and continues to produce him.

He-Man

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He was British Chess Champion in 1923 and 1934 and became an In-ternational Master in 1950. He reached the Wimbledon Men’s Doublessemi-finals in 1911. However, he was most successful in Badminton,having won the All England Championships 21 times (4 Singles, 9 Dou-bles, 8 Mixed Doubles).Who is this polymath, after whom the Badminton World Men’s TeamChampionships Cup is named?

Sir George Alan Thomas

23

Branwell was a painter, poet, and a writer. He was supposed to bethe genius of the family, but ended up the black sheep. Leaving home,he left for London to make a name as an artist, but quickly becameaddicted to alcohol and opium. He never really came back to leadinga productive life, and died without having made much of a name forhimself.His biggest claim to fame is perhaps through his siblings, whose debutnovels came out in the year 1847, after they had had trouble findingpublishers. Today, he has been immortalised in a statue near the Lud-dendenfoot railway station, where he worked as a clerk for a couple ofyears.Who are Branwell’s more popular siblings?

The Bronte Sisters

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It was originally created by Steve Chmelar in 1971 out of hardwarecloth and papier-mâché for the 1971 Iowa High School Athletic As-sociation Boy’s State Basketball Finals. A photo was subsequentlypublished in the Des Moines Tribune. In 1978, Geral Fauss picked upthe idea and set up Spirit Industries to produce them in mass. Today,they are widely used by American sports fans.What is being talked about?

Foam finger

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Instructions for taking care of what?1. Never take your __ swimming. They are known to be poor

swimmers and will sink to the bottom. It is ok to give them anoccasional bath in shallow water.

2. Feeding – No one knows what __ like to eat, but they seem tothrive without food. It is not necessary to feed your __.

3. Exercise – __ can be quite lazy. They do enjoy being tossed in theair sometimes, but should never be thrown at anything.

4. Training – __ are easy to train. They can quickly learn to “sit”,“stay”, and “play dead”. “Roll over” usually requires a little helpfrom the trainer, as does “attack”. “Come”, “stand”, and “shakehands” are impossible to teach.

Pet Rock

26. Who?

Nicknamed the ‘Bombay Tiger’, this 3-time Amateur World Championwon his first World Amateur Billiards Champion title in 1977 and fol-lowed it up with the World Open Billiards Champion title in the sameyear. In 1978, he became the first amateur to break the barrier of 1,000points, creating a new amateur world record by scoring 1,149 points.He refused the Padma Shri in 1981, contending that Sunil Gavaskarwas offered the Padma Bhushan. He was eventually bestowed with thePadma Bhushan in 1983.

Michael Ferreira

27. FITB

__ poems focus on the individual in the context of familial relation-ships. Most tend to be about the love between a man and a woman.They can deal with premarital, marital, and extramarital love in any oftheir phases – meeting, waiting, sulking, lamenting, and parting. Typ-ically, they deal with the essence of the romantic experience, and notjust particular events.On the other hand, __ poems, which are usually presided over bymen, and celebrate the wartime exploits and bravery of heroes. In thewords of one expert, “they explore the relationship between man andthe world around him horizontally, that is, historically, with referenceto a specific place and time.”

Akam and Puram

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The Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons brawl of 2004 was an altercationwhich has been dubbed as the most infamous brawl in the history ofthe NBA. With less than a minute left, a fight broke out on court,with Ron Artest (so much for the Peace) and Ben Wallace as the serialoffenders. As usual players and staff from both teams joined in andwere huddled at mid-court. Artest was lying on the scorer’s table, and adrink was thrown from the stands prompting Artest to enter the crowdand a massive brawl between the players and fans ensued.The repercussions led to nine players being suspended without pay fora total of 146 games, which led to $11 million in salary being lost bythe players. The fight also led the NBA to increase security presencebetween players and fans, and to limit the sale of alcohol.What is this brawl colloquially known as?

Malice at the palace

29. FITB.

“For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed herIt’s the kiss of death from Mister __”“He looks at this world and wants it allSo he strikes like __”“This dream is for you, so pay the priceMake one dream come true, __ __ __ __”“But if this ever-changing world we live inmakes you give in and crySay __ __ __ __”

James Bond themes

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Which league do the following teams play in?• Bangalore Warhawks• Mumbai Gladiators• Kandy Skykings• Pune Marathas• Kolkata Vipers• Delhi Defenders• Pakistan Wolfpak• Colombo Lions

Elite Football League of India (EFLI)

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This modern art movement involving the creation of perspex sculpturesin specific shapes was started by the Jamaican artist Ramó Nash. Nashexhibited his works in a gallery owned by Henri Fourcart, whose “death”under mysterious circumstances prompted an investigation by a Belgianjournalist and brought the movement into the public eye. Links werelater found to a mystic named Endaddine Akass, who was apparentlyusing Nash’s work as a front for an art-forgery racket.What movement was Ramó Nash the pioneer of?

Alph-Art

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All subjects for Rupert Mccall’s poems

• Steve Irwin• New York Firefighter• Black Caviar• A dream match between Federer and Laver

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XY was an alumnus of the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. Duringhis time at college, he proved himself exceptionally brilliant at science,especially in chemistry, and developed the secret technique we knowhim for today.Just before he left for college, XY saw his mother die of scarlet fever.This, and his seeing lightning strike an oak are believed to be one ofthe factors which led him to work in a particular field, culminating inthe creation of something which is often erroneously simply called Y.Who is XY, and how does one correctly identify his creation?

Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Monster

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ODI #453: 9 October 1987, Australia v India, M. A. ChidambaramStadium, Madras, IndiaODI #725: 1 March 1992, Australia v India, The Gabba, Brisbane,AustraliaThese are the only two instances, both incidentally involving India andAustralia, of what? (very specific)

One-run World Cup victories

35How do we better know Yarrow, Stookey and Travers?

Peter, Paul and Mary

36. Who?

While Noel-Baker may have been the only Nobel-winning Olympicmedallist, this mathematician was not far off. Though he didn’t winthe Nobel, his brother and his nephew did. An excellent footballer,he played in Denmark’s first official international football match at the1908 Olympics. The team beat France 17–1 (an Olympic Record) enroute to a silver medal. So popular a footballer was he that when hedefended his doctoral thesis, the audience was reported as having morefootball fans than mathematicians.

Harald Bohr

37For many years, this rock duo were believed to be brother and sister,until it emerged in 2001 that they had been married and divorced. In arather unconventional move, the guy had taken the girl’s surname. Hehad previously been a musician, and they began to play together aftershe learned to play the drums.Many years later, in an interview with Rolling Stone, the male half ofthe band had this to say about the whole my-wife-is-my-sister affair:“When you see a band that is two pieces, husband and wife, boyfriendand girlfriend, you think, ’Oh, I see...’ When they’re brother and sister,you go, ’Oh, that’s interesting.’ You care more about the music, notthe relationship—whether they’re trying to save their relationship bybeing in a band.”Name this duo, whose most-famous music video was inspired by aposter for A Clockwork Orange.

The White Stripes

38. Who?

Often touted as the greatest Asian golfer ever, this guy, affectionatelycalled ‘Jumbo’ on account of his height and length off the tee, featuredin the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeksbetween 1989 and 1998. He is the most successful player of all timeon the Japan Golf Tour, having led the money list a record 12 timesand won 94 tournaments, more than 40 more than the second highesttally. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.

Masashi Ozaki

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In this 1895 novel set in the American Civil War, Henry Fleming, alow-ranking soldier in the Union Army deserts his regiment when hefears that they are losing a battle. However, the Union wins that battleand, feeling remorseful, rejoins his regiment.The title of the book derives from Fleming’s desire for a war wound ora __ __ __ ___, to make up for his former cowardice.

Red Badge of Courage

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This field hockey player played for India at the 1948 London Olympicswinning gold, but later represented Pakistan at the 1956 MelbourneOlympics winning silver, thus becoming one of the few sportspersonsto have one Olympic medals for different countries.Who is this quite-a-bit-post-Independence shifter?

Akhtar Hussain

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When X was 35 years old, he got lost in a dark wood, and was attackedby 3 (metaphorical?) animals, which stood at the edge of the woodand prevented him from exiting it.When he was wondering how to escape, X was saved by a man much,much older than him, whose works he had read and whom he consideredhis mentor.X and his mentor then took a third, longer path, which brought themface to face with the worst and then the best of humanity in a life-altering journey. Who is X?

Dante Alighieri

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Diana Nyad is a woman of many talents. She is an author, journalistand motivational speaker. She was also a national squash player in theUnited States. Nyad gained her reputation as a long-distance swimmerwhen she swam from the Bahamas to Florida in the 1970s. In Septem-ber 2013, at the age of 64 and on her fifth attempt, she successfullycompleted a certain feat and became the first person to do so. Howeversince her feat occurred at a time when artificially enhanced heroes likeLance Armstrong and Alex Rodriguez keep falling, Nyad’s record featwas distrusted by her fellow athletes. What is this record feat?

Swam from Cuba to Florida without shark cage

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Ending of the film Taking Lives. Which Bollywood ending “borrows”extensively from this?

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Kahaani

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X was relegated in 2001 experiencing financial problems, with the club’spresident and the city’s mayor representing opposite sides of the politi-cal spectrum. Another relegation followed in 2002 because of on-pitchfailures coupled with non-payment of wages. However, the fans rebelled,protested and raised money. Since relegation, X has never gone under10,000 season-ticket holders. Facing further threat of administrationin 2012, they again pulled through, with the fan-share concept andhelp from former players Santi Cazorla, Juan Mata and Michu. Shareswere bought by more than 20,000 people from over 60 countries. Car-los Slim also bought €2m worth of shares and holds over 30% of thestake. Small shareholders and fans own over 40% of the shares. X?

Real Oviedo

45. Connect.

• Bruno Podalydès• Paul Mayeda Berges andGurinder Chadha

• Gus Van Sant• Joel and Ethan Coen• Walter Salles and DanielaThomas

• Christopher Doyle• Isabel Coixet• Nobuhiro Suwa• Sylvain Chomet

• Alfonso Cuarón• Olivier Assayas• Oliver Schmitz• Richard LaGravenese• Vincenzo Natali• Wes Craven• Tom Tykwer• Frédéric Auburtin andGérard Depardieu

• Alexander Payne

46

The first picture is luge. If they are both on the same track, what isthe second?

Skeleton

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An author on a movie made from a book he wrote. Which author, andwhich book?“Summing up, as __’s author I shall allow myself to repeat that I onlywanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something thatcertainly exists, in a mighty manner perhaps, but cannot be reduced tohuman concepts, ideas or images. This is why the book was entitled__ and not Love in Outer Space.”

Solaris, Stanislaw Lem

48The X was originally presented at the University of Cambridge as a kindof prize awarded by the students to the man who achieved the lowestexam marks but still earned a junior optime in the Mathematical Tripos.The term X was also applied to the recipient and the prize became quitenotorious.

And while he lives, he wields the boasted prize

Whose value all can feel, the weak, the wise;

Displays in triumph his distinguish’d boon,

The solid honours of the X

What is this X which as now found its way into sporting culture, es-pecially in the Six Nations Championship, County Championship andvarious sports of the Commonwealth Countries?

The Wooden Spoon

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