The Riddler Finals

8/14/2019 The Riddler Finals

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X is an electrical weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created bya coronal discharge originating from a grounded object in an atmosphericelectric field (such as those generated by thunderstorms or thunderstormscreated by a volcanic explosion). X is a bright blue or violet glow, appearing likefire in some circumstances, from tall, sharply pointed structures such aslightning rods, masts, spires and chimneys, and on aircraft wings.

X is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae, the patron saint of sailors. Thephenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during thunderstorms, andwas regarded by sailors with religious awe, accounting for the name. x?


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St.Elmos fire


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2. Oscar Niemeyer (born December 15, 1907) is a

Brazilian architect and designer who isconsidered one of the most important names ininternational modern architecture. For 2 years

now, he and the Brazilian chemical companyBraskem have worked in association with TheBrazilian GP at Interlagos, promoting Go Greenprojects. This year, their work came undercriticism for its displeasing appearance.

What exactly did he and this company churn out?


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While Oscar designedit,Braskem worked froman on-site laboratory,over the three-days,towill collect blue capsfrom disposable drinksbottles.The caps wereground and melted andthen pressed into blocksand cut into shape to

form the blue plastictrophy that was awardedto the winners.


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3. X have adopted a custom logo known as

Y, as well as a wordmark which hasappeared on the vast majority of theirpromotional material and on the frontcover of almost every studio album. Y isderived from Mary Queen of Scots' mark(shown on the right), which was re-worked by a band member for use onthe album artwork for When Dream and Day Unite . It consists of a capital Phi, acapital Mu, and a capital Alpha. Give meX and Y.


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X = Dream Theater Y= The Majesty


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Copacabana.

Copacabana the nightclub in New York.

Barry Manilow- sang Copacabana aboutthis club.

Copacabana, the 1947 moviestarring Groucho Marx and Carmen

Miranda. The famous 4km Copacabana beach in

Rio de Janeiro.


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5. At the age of 20,this guy was a ball

spotter at the 1980 U.S. Open. Now this actor has done voiceover work

on animated television series, includingthe superhero "The Atom" and also onseveral episodes of Justice LeagueUnlimited! He is a famous TV personality

who in most of his episodes pays tributeto Redford's character in The sting bytouching his nose frequently!


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John McGinley


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6. _______ depicts parts of American society and culture of the1960s,highlighting cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, adultery,

homophobia,antisemitism, racism and a complete lack of concernfor the environment as examples of how that era was so muchdifferent from the present.Smoking, far more common in the UnitedStates of the 1960s than it is now, is featured throughout the

series; many characters can be seen smoking several times in thecourse of an episode. _______ has received highly positive criticalresponse since its premiere. Viewership for the premiere at 10 p.m.on July 19, 2007, was higher than any other AMC original series todate.Characters in _______also see stirrings of change in the adindustry itself, with the Volkswagen Beetle's "Think Small" ad

campaign mentioned.The children's television show Sesame Streetran a parody of "______," a child-friendly skit that lasts 2 minutesand 15 seconds, sometime in late 2009. ID the show!


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Madmen


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7. X was a followed of Frederick Taylor who

is considered the Father of ScientificManagement. X developed the idea of

rating an employee publicly. Everyworker's progress was recorded onindividual bar charts inked in black ondays he/she completed the standard andred on the day he/she fell below.

What is X or the system he devised ?


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Gantt Charts


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8. This practice is considered a pseudoscience and

takes its name from cheir meaning hand andmanteia.It can trace its roots back to India.heHindu sage Valmiki is thought to have written abook, comprising 567 stanzas on the subject.From India, this spread to China, Tibet, Egypt,Persia and to other countries in Europe mostnotably Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it.

What practice?


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Chiromancy - Palmistry


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LVC


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Rules

5 Sets +25,+20,+15,+10,+5

-1/2 throughout. No negatives on the last set


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9. Known for his rather unconventional attire

throughout the early part of his career, he wasencouraged by his sponsors to switch over tomore conventional clothing to suit his statusat the top of the field as he grew.He has hadmixed fortune since his switch, and thiscaused his hardcore fans to make a call forhim to revert to his traditional attire. Who he?


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10. Elena Bodnar, who lives in Chicago, got her

start as a scientist in Ukraine, when shewitnessed the devastating effects of theChernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986.At

the ceremony, Bodnar demonstrated herinvention, which she said could haveprevented people from breathing in Iodine-131 in the wake of Chernobyl.Given is a pic

of her invention. What invention? what's itsclaim to fame?


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Gas-mask bra. Won the Public HealthIg-Nobel this year


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11 In 1952,Levegh had driven 23 straight hours of the race

and was leading.He failed to win only because of a missedshift, resulting in engine failure, in the final hour of therace.In the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans,at approximately6:25pm local time Levegh hit a car in front which launchedhis car into the stands,thus killing him and 86 otherspectators.This came to be known as the 1955 Le Mansdisaster.This disaster implicated certain practices and thusbrought about a change in the rules of this sport. What?


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Changing of drivers during the course of the race wasmade mandatory


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12 The original jersey colour was pink, which was quickly

abandoned for thin black-and-white vertical stripes. The legend has it that in 1906 X played another teamthat used these colors, to decide who would get tokeep them. X lost, and decided to adopt the colors of the flag of the first boat to subsequently sail into theport which was the 4146 ton Swedish freighterDrottning Sophia, sailing from Copenhagen and therest,as they say is history. Id X


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Trivia:These three countries are givena collective name due to their

proximity to a water- body.Whatcollective name? Else id the threecountries


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Baltic States


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14. This toy was invented in the late 1950s by French electrician

Andr Cassagnes. Cassagnes originally called it Telecran ("tele-screen"), on account of its resemblance to a television screen.After a complex series of negotiations, The Ohio Art Companylaunched the toy in the United States in time for the 1960

holiday season with the name "_______". The inside surface of the glass screen is coated with aluminum powder which is thenscraped off by a movable stylus, leaving a dark line on the lightgray screen. The stylus is controlled by the two large knobs,one of which moves it vertically and the other horizontally. Toerase the picture, the artist turns the toy upside down andshakes it. What toy?

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Etch-A-Sketch


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A- One Liberty Place B- Comcast Centre

Curse of William Penn

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This video is a simple interactionbetween the brothers. The videoshows the elder brother as he goes

from being cheery and playful, togetting hurt. He starts screaming inpain and eventually ends up laughing

the whole incident off. All this whilethe younger brother remians blisfullyunaware of his actions. What video?


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Charlie Bit Me

!(Ti k T k Ti k T k)


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Anti-Clockwise

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Put Funda


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The Pink Panther A Shot in the dark Inspector Closeau The Return of the Pink Panther

The Pink Panther strikes again Revenge of the Pink Panther Trail of the Pink Panther Curse of the Pink Panther Son of the Pink Panther The Pink Panther The Pink Panther 2

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18. Brynhildr is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse

mythology, where she appears as a main character in theVlsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the sameevents. Under the name Brnnhilde she appears in theNibelungenlied and thus even in Richard Wagner's opera

cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen .Brynhildr is probablyinspired by the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia,who married Merovingian king Sigebert I in 567. Thehistory of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battlebetween brothers, and dealings with the Huns. This apart,

she is commonly associated with sport. Put Funda (Putpic.)


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It aint over till the fat lady


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ysings

Despite his obvious allegiance to the RedRaiders, Texas Tech sports informationdirector Ralph Carpenter was the picture of professional objectivity whenthe Aggies rallied for a 72-72 tie late inthe SWC tournament finals. "Hey, Ralph,"said Bill Morgan, "this... is going to be a tightone after all." "Right," said Ralph. "The operaaint over until the fat lady sings."

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UGO.com ranked the _________ at number two ontheir Top 50 Video Game Weapons of All Timelist. "X-Play ranked it number one on their Top 10Badass Weapons list, stating that while "not asfancy as the gravity gun", it was the first weaponthat "really made us swoon.Some debate hasgone on as to what the name actually is,oneaccepted name given is "BioForce Gun".However the more popular name is _____________.

What weapon?

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BFG


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BFG

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Y is a fictionalized retelling of real people X metduring his days as a singer in Los Angeles, afterthe failure of his first album, Cold Spring Harbor.At the time, X was trying to get out of a bad dealwith the record company Family Productions, so,he was "hiding out" at the bar, performing undera false name while Columbia Records tried to gethim out of the deal.Y shot X to such fame that Ystuck on as X's nickname. Gimme both X and Y


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________1__________ is a phrase most commonlyassociated with the Physicist X who won the Nobelsometime in the 60's. _____________2_____ iscommonly associated with a tempermental tennis

legend from the 80's. Now 1 and 2 essentiallymean the same thing and they are also the namesof the autobiographies of X and Y respectively.Gimme all 4 variables.

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23.Principles for what?

Letters should be typed by alternating between hands. For maximum speed and efficiency, the most common letters and

digraphs should be the easiest to type. This means that theyshould be on the home row, which is where the fingers rest, andunder the strongest fingers.

The least common letters should be on the bottom row, which is thehardest row to reach.

The right hand should do more of the typing, because most peopleare right-handed.

Digraphs should not be typed with adjacent fingers. Stroking should generally move from the edges of the board to the

middle. An observation of this principle is that, for many people,when tapping fingers on a table, it is easier going from little fingerto index than vice versa.

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Stage 2

Written round 6 questions 5 points per right answer 3 stages +15/-7 +10/-5

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In some reckonings, X is the greatest of theSeven Sages or Saptarshis. X is also the Indianastronomical name of the star of Canopus, issaid to be the 'cleanser of waters', since its

rising coincides with the calming of the watersof the Indian Ocean. Another reference is inthe Mahabharata in Sauptikaparva as theteacher of Guru Drona, who gave Drona, the

greatest of weapons, Brahmastra.

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________ Magazine is an American magazine specializing inthe game of poker. Separate editions are also published forEurope, Latin America, South Africa and Australasia.TheAmerican edition began as a bimonthly in October 2004and went monthly in August 2005.In December 2006,

_________ Magazine purchased thepokerdb.com, an onlinetournament database. The site has since been integratedinto the _________ Magazine web site. What is ____?

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This was a successful language rightsagitation in the 1980s that fought forthe first language status of the

Kannada language in the state of Karnataka, India.It recommendedgiving primacy to Kannada in State

schools. Actor Dr Rajkumar led thecampaign.What campaign/who was itnamed after?

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This word can mean a monasteryunder the supervision of an abbot or aconvent under the supervision of an

abbess.It can also mean the group of buildings comprising such amonastery or convent or event thechurch of such a monastery orconvent.

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_______ is a form of trot or run at a slow or leisurelypace. The main intention is to increase fitness with lessstress on the body than from faster running.Thedefinition of a __________ as compared with running isnot standard. Dr. George Sheehan, a running expert, isquoted to have said "the difference between a

_________ and a runner is an entry blank".Others areusually more specific, defining a __________ as runningslower than 6 mph (10 minute per mile pace, 10 km/h,6 min/km)

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1. Agastya2. Ocean of Milk being churned3. Bluff Magazine4. V.K.Gokak5. Abbey

6. Jog

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Waterfalls1.Agasthiar Falls2.Doodh Sagar3.Bluff (aka Shivanasamudra)4.Gokak Falls

5.Abbey Falls6.Jog Falls

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