He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Round One Written Round
Self-Deprecation
8 questions
+10 for getting each answer
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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2008 event
2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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2016 event
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
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Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Exchange sheets please
He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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He (picture in next slide) was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928 He was the first Catholic nominee for President but lost in a landslide election to Republican Herbert Hoover His lasting legacy is an fundraiser for Catholic charities named for him which is generally the last event where the two Presidential candidates share a stage often poking fun at themselves making the event similar to a roast
Regarding the similarities he shared with this person Obama at the 2008 fundraiser said ldquoldquoIt is said that I share the politics of _____1_____ and the ears of ____2_____rdquo Fill in the blanks
Q1
2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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2008 event
2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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2016 event
Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Alfred E Smith
Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Alfred E Neuman
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In the sixth book of this series titled lsquoSong of Susannahrsquo the protagonist comes across a certain character (a fictionalized version of the author himself) who is supposedly afraid to write the next part of the series It is revealed that at a very young age the antagonist attempted to kill him in a barn with some chickens and a flood of red spiders He fears death and retaliation if he continues to write the tale
The character stops writing when he has an accident in 1999 mirroring a real automobile accident that the author had
Which book series is this And name the author
Q2
Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Stephen King Dark Tower
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Watch the clip
Identify the movie What is Ben Affleck referring to when he says ldquowhatever gay serial killers who ride horses and like to play golf touchy feely picturerdquo
Q3
>
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Talented Mr Ripley
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Buckleyrsquos is a Canadian brand that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold In 1986 using the brainchild of the agency Ambrose Carr Linton Kelly Frank Buckley started a famous advertising campaign known for its brutal honesty Even after it got acquired by Novartis it has retained this lsquobadrsquo brand image
The agency themselves were inspired by a legendary 1962 campaign which was the idea of Bill Bernbach which was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012 with a new slogan ldquoIts Your Spacerdquo
What did Buckleyrsquos claim What was the 1962 campaign
Q4
That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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That it tastes bad yet works
Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Avis We Try Harder
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When Carol Miller a DJ learnt that New Jersey was looking for an official anthem he suggested a song that he was getting multiple requests for One of the radio stationrsquos account executives Robert Visotcky told his father assemblyman Richard Visotcky who then drafted a resolution To make _______ ________ as the New Jersey Pop Music Ambassador to America and ldquoXrdquo as the unofficial rock theme of our Statersquos youth
Only when they understood the lyrics ldquoBaby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were youngrdquo was the resolution abandoned
Name the artist and the song
Q5
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When he beat Rafael Nadal in the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinals a famous 1980 quote was making the rounds considering the fact that Nadal had beaten him 17 times in a row since a controversial match in Madrid in 2006
The comparison doesnrsquot end there as Matt Zemek noted ldquoThe main comparison that they were strong players but a cut below the best is accurate For the most part X rarely made major finals and lived in the shadows of Borg Connors McEnroe and Lendl When X enjoyed a prime period and was a contender at the majors X was always stopped by a superior playerrdquo
Which two players are being compared here
Q6
Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Tomas Berdych
Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Vitas Gerulaitis
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Voot Viacom18rsquos answer to Netflix came out with an original series in May last year titled lsquoBad Manrsquo
The episodes feature X playing himself Hersquos at the end of his career has two useless sons one of whom wants to be a director and the other just hangs out with young women He then decides to act in a film called lsquoGood Manrsquo in which he will play the college-going hero The episodes also feature the ldquoVillains Association Of Bollywoodrdquo the mantle of heading which is handed over to X by Gopal Bedi known by his screen name Y
Identify X and Y
Q7
Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Gulshan Grover
Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Ranjeet
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Painted for the cover of a 1960 issue of the Saturday Evening Post this artwork shows one version of the artist in the mirror with foggy glasses His reasoning ldquoI couldnrsquot actually see what I looked likemdasha homely lanky fellowmdashand therefore I could stretch the truth just a bit and paint myself looking more suave and debonair than I actually amrdquo
There are also portraits of Durer Rembrandt Van Gogh and Picasso poking fun at a supposed genealogy as one critic points out ldquoIt seems to say lsquoGosh I am not really one of those great artists I am just a regular guy like yourdquo
Name the painting and the artist
Q8
Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Triple Self-Portrait
Norman Rockwell
ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Alfred E Smith and Alfred E Neuman
2 Dark Tower Stephen King
3 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Talented Mr Ripley
4 That they taste bad Avisrsquo ldquoWe Try Harderrdquo
5 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6 Tomas Berdych Vitas Gerulaitis
7 Gulshan Grover Ranjeet
8 Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell
Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Round Two Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In a book titled ldquoThe Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtimerdquo the author talks about a particular food item and its perceptions as per two incidents
ldquoIn 1991 X made an joke that his firmrsquos 99p earrings cost the same as a _____ _______ but the latter might last longer His group value plummeted by around pound500 million because of this In 2000 Y furious with the poor atmosphere at a game complained about supporters who have had a few ______ ______ but do not realize what is happening on the pitch It is neither cheap nor the food for snobs it was successful because it is nicer than something we would make ourselvesrdquo
Which food item is this Name the two people involved
Q1
X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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X
Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Prawn Sandwich
Gerald Ratner and Roy Keane who called the Manchester United supporters in the box the
lsquoprawn sandwich brigadersquo
This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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This flower serves as the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought as well as the literature of the American Secular Union which inaugurated its usage in the late 1800s
The reasoning behind the symbol lies both in the flowerrsquos name (supposedly derived its name from a French word which means lsquothoughtrsquo) as well as in its appearance since it is seen by some to bear resemblance to a human face and in mid-to-late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought
Name this flower that over time has also acquired a pejorative sense to refer to an effeminate male
Q2
Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Pansy
One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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One of the puzzles for demographers is why the population of England began to expand rapidly in the second half of the 18th century well before the Industrial Revolution made the British wealthier Anthropologist Alan MacFarlane theorizes the growing popularity of something was crucial to making the Industrial Revolution successful in England
Apart from workers being able to push through days of grueling unfulfilling work MacFarlane notes that an ever present danger associated with large populations didnrsquot happen because of this
What was this that made the Industrial Revolution successful What other danger did it prevent and how
Q3
Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Tea
Large populations generally meant large amount of diseases for which antibiotics werenrsquot invented yet
Because tea-drinkers boiled water before drinking it that destroyed most of the disease-causing bacteria
Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Researchers from Finland have recently put forth an explanation for this human anatomical phenomenon that it is simple physics ie the outer part grows faster than the rest
The experiment involved making a mould obtained by 3-D printing which was then filled with a silicon-based gel Finally a 1mm-thick layer of slightly different gel was added to the surface When placed in a glass jar full of an organic solvent for 20-30 minutes this outer layer swelled up
What feature is being explained thus
Q4
Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Folds in the surface of the brain
Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Three decades after entering the bad books of the organization reconciliation came in November 2016 when he was received by Pope Francis for a 15-minute meeting During the meeting he handed over two paintings to Pope Francis one of which was called ldquoMadonna Of the Snowsrdquo Who was this
The painting was made in the 16th century in the lsquoSeminary of Paintersrsquo workshop set up Giovanni Niccolograve This painting was a mix of styles as it contained the Western iconography combined with the Eastern high arched eyebrows and bee-stung lips Which other characteristic shows the Eastern influence in the painting which also proved to be useful to preserve this artwork through the ages
Q5
Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Martin Scorsese
It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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It was made in the form of a scroll
So that it could be rolled up and hidden away if they were being persecuted by the Shogunate
While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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While researching for the controversial 1973 documentary lsquoSwastikarsquo director Philippe Mora came across new information regarding his father Georges Mora who helped smuggle refugees along with a good friend in the French Resistance
Mora noticed that German soldiers would never search sandwiches containing mayonnaise in case drips stained their uniforms and so wrapped the identity papers of Jewish children in these sandwiches His friend on the other hand did something else to keep children quiet as they were escaping As Phillippe puts it ldquoIt had nothing to do with show business He was _______ for his liferdquo Who is this friend and what did he start doing
Q6
Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Marcel Marceau
He started miming
1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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1 Battle of ____1___ Mountain Fought in 1863 Part of the American Civil War Union forces under the victor assaulted Lookout Mountain and defeated Confederate forces
2 Battle of ____2____ Fought in 1800 near Alessandria Italy French forces under the victor drove the Austrians out of Italy
3 Second Battle of ____3_____ Fought in 1807 British destroyed the Dano-Norwegian fleet which led to the Anglo-Russian War
How did the victors in the first two cases and a Britisher later in the third case commemorate these battles
Q7
Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Mounts named after them
Lookout Mountain ndash Lookout Joseph Hooker
Marengo ndash Marengo Napoleon
Copenhagen ndash Copenhagen Duke of Wellington
Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Recently car site Jalopnik put up a Lotus Espirit named lsquoWet Nelliersquo for sale It was then bought for $989000 by Elon Musk who planned to replicate what he had seen into reality The listing indicated that there was no semblance of a road car interior instead one will find its motors batteries levers and other control apparatus with only a platform seat for its driver
Musk said ldquoWhat Im going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it _______ for realrdquo
Where would we have seen lsquoWet Nelliersquo and what does Musk want to replicate
Q8
The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Make it transform from a road car into a submarine
As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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As part of Robert Howlettrsquos major work commissioned by lsquoThe Illustrated Timesrsquo there was a well known portrait of a person standing in front of the giant launching chains on the lsquochecking drumrsquo braking mechanism of the SS Great Eastern at John Scott Russellrsquos Millwall shipyard
It depicts the subject in an industrial setting instead of a more traditional background for a portrait and thus has been described as one of the first examples of environmental portraiture
Who is the subject of the photograph
Q9
One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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One of the other images taken in the commission
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
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This practice originated with the military campaigns of the Middle Ages like the Crusades for example in the case of Richard I While scientists could not learn much about his death they did find that items like incense spices vegetables myrrh daisies mint and even some mercury were used in this practice As time passed this custom became sporadic but made occasional appearances as in the case of Thomas Hardy in Dorset Percy Shelley in Mary Shelleyrsquos desk
One of the most famous examples was accompanied with a sculpture by Leonard Marconi bearing an inscription from Matthew VI21 ldquoFor where your treasure is there will your _______ be alsordquo What is this practice and who is this person
Q10
Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Heart burials Frederic Chopin
This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
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This Swiss-born French physicist entered Louis Pasteurrsquos research laboratory in 1886 and was sent by request of the French government and the Pasteur Institute to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an epidemic Here he made his greatest discovery that of the pathogen which causes the disease which was later named in his honour
What is this pathogen named for him potentially one of the first examples of biological warfare when in 1347 victims were catapulted by the Mongols over the city walls of Caffa which spread the disease to the West Or just name him
Q11
Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Alexander Yersin
Yersinia pestis the cause of the plague was named for him after he discovered it in 1894
This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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This word emerged from a Latin word and is translated as ldquoof a judge especially the praetor to award a debtor as a slave to his creditorrdquo in a more general sense ldquoto give oneself up too slavishlyrdquo
According to the Roman law he was a person who was enslaved through a judicial procedure In the time of the Roman Empire when a debtor could not repay his or her debt creditors could recover their losses using a legal procedure In that procedure if proven that the debtor lacks the means to repay the praetor or the justice could turn the debtor into a slave
What word derives from this judicial process
Q12
Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Addiction
The sense of lsquogiving oneself up as a slaversquo transferred to the sense lsquogiving into a substancersquo
On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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On October 20 2011 BBC reporter took a photo of a young man in a blue shirt and a Yankees cap Hersquos smiling being carried on the shoulders of his comrades raising an object in his left hand
Later he went back to try and get the identity of the person which turned out to be a person called lsquoMuhammad El-Bibirsquo who says he simply found the object and in the confusion of the moment others thought it was Mohammed who had done the deed and he became the accidental hero of the revolution
What object is this believed to be a gift to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1969 coup
Q13
Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Gaddafirsquos golden gun
In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In 1977 the North American Soccer League did away with ties in each game and introduced this new rule borrowed from another league It proved pretty tricky as even the likes of Carlos Alberto were scuppered by the challenge
It found a fan in Johann Cruyff ldquoI would suggest that the rest of the world follow the lead of the NASL and use this when a game is tied after regulation and overtime Yoursquove always got problems about whether the goalkeeper moved You donrsquot get this hererdquo
Explain the rule
Q14
35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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35-yard shootouts
>
After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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After every successful endeavor a tortoise is stenciled onto the hatch as shown in the image apparently in reference to the race between the tortoise and the hare in Aesoprsquos Fables ldquoIn the long run deliberate and methodical wins the day Slow is smooth and smooth is fastrdquo as per the founderrsquos e-mail
This symbolism is also shared in the companyrsquos logo motto and mascot (a tortoise) The motto ldquoGradatim Ferociterrdquo is Latin for ldquoStep by Step Ferociouslyrdquo which the founder justifies saying that you canrsquot cut any corners and if you do itrsquos going to be an illusion that itrsquos going to make it faster
Identify the company and the founder
Q15
Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Round Three Written Round
Theme
8 questions Answers connect to a theme which is non-exhaustive (Researchers have counted a total of 213 different instances)
+10 for getting each answer
Points for the theme are as follows Within Q1 or Q2 - +15-7 Within Q3 Q4 or Q5 - +10-5 At Q6 Q7 or Q8 - +5
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
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Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Exchange sheets please
A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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A paper in the journal lsquoCurrent Psychiatryrsquo titled lsquoA Case of the _____ _______rsquo takes inspiration from a 1956 science fiction movie for its title Fill in the blanks with the aid of the following excerpt
ldquoMrs P is experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations of evil spirits and religious and hypersexual delusions She cannot recognize her face and believes her voice has been replaced by anotherrsquos She also thinks that her face nose lips voice and abdomen are not her own She believes evil spirits that reside within her body are continuously replacing her body partsrdquo
Q1
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Which pejorative word derives its etymology from the character of lsquoNicodemusrsquo in the Bible The story according to the Gospel of John goes as follows
ldquoNicodemus a man of the Pharisees came to Jesus by night and confessed his faith in Him Jesus responded that ldquoexcept a man to be born again he can not see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him lsquoHow can a man be born when he is old Can he enter the second time in to his motherrsquos womb and be bornrdquo
Nicodemus was hence seen as a blockhead unable to understand the simplest things
Q2
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nincompoop
Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Following is a flag used by many political parties across Europe Which party
The parties support civil rights direct democracy and participation in government reform of copyright and patent law free sharing of knowledge information privacy transparency freedom of information anti-corruption and Internet neutrality
Q3
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Shane Black and his writing team have teamed up with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie about a comic character called lsquoMan of Bronzersquo and the lsquoWorldrsquos First Superherorsquo He was physically and mentally trained from birth by his father and a team of scientists to become the perfect human specimen with a genius level intellect
In 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were also inspired by this superhero and they borrowed part of his name for a character that they developed
Who is this What aspect of Shusterrsquos character did he inspire
Q4
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Clark Savage The name lsquoClark Kentrsquo for Superman
When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When he was a Senator from Missouri Harry Truman was called lsquoThe Senator from Pendergastrsquo referring to the Democratic machine of Tom Pendergast whose money and patronage Truman relied upon
This perception of him inspired a character named Harrison Paine who is supposed to be from the political machine of Jim Taylor Paine attempts to portray a fellow Senator the protagonist as corrupt However the herorsquos tactic is talk non-stop for 24 hours to prove his innocence Eventually when he faints Paine confesses to his scheme
Which movie is this What is this tactic that the hero employs
Q5
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In 1389 a system of conscription was introduced in the Ottoman military The new force of irregular infantrymen was called Azabs and it was used support the supplies to the front-line they dug roads and built bridges On rare occasions they were used as cannon fodder to slow down enemy advance
A branch of the Azabs were the ______-_______ These were specialized in close combat and were sometimes mounted They became notorious for being brutal and indisciplined and were recruited from homeless vagrants and criminals
Identify this branch also the title of the painting shown by Jean-Leon Gerome
Q6
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
Slide 9
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Before the Australian tour of 1954-55 this English bowler was already making waves due to his performances for Northamptonshire The wicketkeeper Keith Andrew sometimes crouched as far as 72 yards away as he began his run
This distance led an enterprising sub-editor to wonder about the whirlwind pace that would be required to send the ball from the hand of the bowler to the glove of Andrews in the said blink of an eye His headline read lsquoIt takes a _______rsquo This alliterative nickname was also in the title of his autobiography
Name him and the nickname
Q7
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
Slide 9
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In August 2015 when a piece of debris a 2-25 wing surface had been identified as being from a Boeing (BAN) 777 people thought they could get some clues regarding the disappearance of MH370
Using photographs such as the one shown experts analyzed the wing and could age the organisms based on growth rates and size This could help determine the temperature and chemical composition of the water through which they passed
What were these organisms supposed to help find MH370
Q8
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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ANSWERS
1 Body Snatchers
2 Nicodemus
3 Pirate Party
4 Doc Savage Clark Kent
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington Filibuster
6 Bashi Bazouk
7 Frank Tyson Typhoon
8 Barnacles
Theme Swear words used by Captain Haddock in Tintin
Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Round Four Infinite Pounce Round
15 questions Anti-clockwise
+100 on the bounce If no team gets an answer question goes back to the same team
+10-5 on the pounce
This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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This Indian community once considered untouchables has served in various armies Shivajirsquos in the 1600s and the British Raj during the early 1800s Their most memorable battle happened in 1818 where along with Company troops they defended against 2000 Peshwas This victory against the Brahmin Peshwas is seen as a Dalit victory over high-caste oppression and the memorial to this battle is also captured in their regimentrsquos insignia Name the community and the battle
After 1857 their recruitment was reduced in favor of lsquomartial racesrsquo Who in July 1941 as part of the Defence Advisory Committee of the Viceroyrsquos Council helped create this regiment
Q16
Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Memorial to the battle
Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Regimental Insignia
Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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Mahar Regiment
Battle of Koregaon
BR Ambedkar
A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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A popular myth between X and Y originates with Herodotus who called Y a lsquotrochilusrsquo Modern scientists refute this symbiosis due to the following reasons
1 There is no evidence for this activity and the most popular image cited as evidence was a digital reconstruction
2 X doesnrsquot need the help of Y since they are capable of regularly shedding and replacing something ldquolike a set of Russian dolls with smaller ones waiting to emergerdquo
3 During the day time the activity would be unnecessary as X dries itself up thus discouraging leeches
What popular myth is this
Q17
Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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Symbiosis between Crocodiles and Egyptian Plovers
Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Debuting in 2013 (and used for future purposes since) the redesign of this 164-year old phenomenon was done by Daniel Weil For inspiration Weil looked at the work of the original designer Nathan Cook and used the same source of inspiration the Parthenon The new design not only just reflected the pitch of the Parthenonrsquos pediment (image in next slide) and also the relative value the more the worth the wider the base
In addition the design also accommodated the different styles that would be used by people the lsquoNorth-holdrsquo and the more theatrical lsquoSouth-holdrsquo
What did Daniel Weil redesign
Q18
Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Staunton Chess Set
Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Movement between these landmasses was frequent as Eskimos from both sides crossed over to stalk their migratory prey the occasional bringing of brides back over the ice and the seasonal sharing of meat In May 1948 however free movement was stopped and total closure was installed
There were two notable instances of crossovers since a Soviet soldier found dead in 1979 The motive for the crossover was explained ldquoIn peacetime all such organizations seek training opportunities that approximate the real risks of wartime The coastline here is undefended and indefensible Practicing here is not like flying a U-2 over the Soviet Union and getting shot down Theres risk but not that dire riskrdquo
Q19
The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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The second time was more overt Lynne Cox made a successful 27 mile swim between the locations and welcomed by the other side Though the temperature was around 5degC experts believe she succeeded because of a combination of determination and her own body fat which insulated her
What are the two locations
Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Little Diomede and Big Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (either side of the International Date Line)
Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Andre _______rsquos grandfather was a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit and took his surname from this profession He however became an engineer and founded an automobile company in 1919 He understood the power of celebrity marketing as early as 1927 by inviting someone to his factory the day after he achieved a famous feat Captured by the worldrsquos media Andre got the celebrity to say that he was guided to his destination thanks to something that was installed in 1925 (which lasted until 1934 and kept the company in the limelight literally and metaphorically)
Fill in the blanks identify the celebrity and what did the celebrity say helped him reach his destination
Q20
Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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Citroen (meaning lsquoLime manrsquo)
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
Slide 6
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Slide 227
Charles Lindbergh
The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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The Eiffel Tower advertisement
This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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This person (image in next slide) always hated something about himself considering it expressionless and unimaginative and associated it with a certain naiumlve and foolish character
In addition to this association he hated the tradition that it stood for as did other authors like Walter Houghton ldquoThe prophets of _______ were attacking a casual easy-going superficial or frivolous attitude whether in intellectual or in moral life and demanding that men should think and men should live with a high and serious purposerdquo
What did this guy hate about himself Which character did he associate it with
Q21
Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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Ernest Hemingway hated his first name and the idea of being lsquoearnestrsquo
He associated it with Earnest from lsquoThe
Importance of Being Earnestrsquo
The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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The engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London is believed to have produced the first version of this
It was used as a tool for the teaching of geography such as for the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte by Lady Charlotte Finch
Technically the word used to refer to it today is a misnomer which has been associated with it since 1880 It is named for A while actually B was being used to make them What are we talking about
Q22
A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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A
B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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B
Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Jigsaw Puzzle
Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Pope Fabian was the Bishop of Rome from 10 January 236 to his death in 250 He is known for the unusual way in which he was elected Pope given in this account ldquoAlthough present Fabian was in the mind of none While other names were being considered ltincidentgt To the electors this recalled a gospel scene so they took this as a sign that he was marked out for this dignity and he was at once proclaimed bishop by _________rdquo
What they saw was a Biblical incident recorded in all the four gospels a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah
a What happened during the election that got Fabian elected
Q23
b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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b Fabian was the first Pope to be elected in a particular way (one-word blank) the other available ways being by scrutiny and by compromise The third consisted in all the electors present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff without the formality of casting votes
What one word describes this method
CLUE Matthew 316 discusses this pre-arranged sign
ldquoAnd Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a ______rdquo
A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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A dove descended on his head
Acclamation
One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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One of the popular explanations for the curved routes in the London Underground is discussed in the Catherine Arnold book lsquoNecropolisrsquo ldquoAt the spot where Brompton Road and Knightsbridge now meet (image in next slide) areas for the Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations couldnrsquot be tunneled through ltbecause of somethinggtrdquo
In reality however the reasons for curves in most of these tracks were because they follow large roads to reduce costs
What is the popular reason given for the curves Why did tracks follow roads instead of taking the shortest path underground
Q24
Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Popular reason Plague Pits
Actual reason
When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
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When tunneling was used people believed that building collapses could occur if a tunnel was dug
So the law required that the railway companies buy any property they passed under
As a result whenever they could the companies dug under publicly-owned roads
In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In October 2016 an event called SXSL modelled on and organized together with the original Austin Texas interactive festival South By Southwest The venue was dotted with a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red yellow orange and blue Identify the venue
During the event there was a virtual reality film titled lsquo6x9rsquo a combined effort by the Guardian and the creative content studio the Mill It was meant to simulate the conditions that around 80000 to 100000 Americans experience Such conditions lead to anxiety hallucinations wild mood swings hypersensitivity to any stimuli What were they recreating
Q25
South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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South Lawn ie White House
Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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Simulated the experience of Solitary Confinement
An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
Slide 1
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An annual ritual here on the full moon day of the month of Jyeshtha recreates a particular story The three siblings go out to the lake and have a bath 108 pots of purified water is used The three of them are believed to fall ill and are then kept in a sick room to recuperate in privacy
During this period of 15 days known as lsquoAnasararsquo the siblings cannot be seen In order to appease the people who visited during this time locals developed something as a replacement
Who are three siblings What originated as a replacement during this 15-day period
Q26
Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Krishna Balarama Subhadra at Jagannath Temple
Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Paintings were used to show the dieties and hence this is how the art form Pattachitra developed
When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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When Richard Dawkins was writing this 2009 book he wanted to use a title that denotes the misconceptions in society about evolution and how it is not just conjecture The title was however already taken by the Kenneth Miller book ldquo____ ___ _______ Evolution and the Battle for Americarsquos Soulrdquo What was the original intended title for Dawkinsrsquo book
The title that he eventually settled was inspired by a T-shirt given to him The title is more famously known for (a) being the slogan of an entity that recently announced that they would be closing with their last performance in May 2017 (b) a 1952 film that won the Best Picture Oscar and featured employees of the entity discussed What was the new title
Q27
Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Kenneth Miller book
Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Only A Theory
Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Greatest Show On Earth
The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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The 1952 film
This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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This traditional form of saree (with a GI tag) comes from a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka whose name means lsquoslope down the hillrsquo A third of the town is involved in sari weaving This style of wear now enjoy a pride of place in festivities in north Karnataka and towns of Maharashtra bordering Karnataka Identify the townsaree
A distinct style of border that the pallu of these saris bear is shown in the next slide and it is meant to be a tribute to something that helped the people of this town sell their ware in other markets What is this design a tribute to
Q28
Ilkal which comes from lsquoIllekallursquo
Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Tribute to the Indian Railways
In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In December 1987 Sir Nicholas Barrington was the British ambassador to a particular country Due to an ongoing controversy involving a fellow countryman diplomats had to step in to heal the bad feeling Barringtonrsquos opinion was that his countryman was the one at fault ldquoThis has been brewing for some time There is going to be a great deal of ill-will here towards Britain and could have damaging financial and legal consequencesrdquo He also noted that the local embassy had lsquogone out of its wayrsquo to help After reports reached the Prime Minister the Englishman apologized The British embassy later waived the cost of visas for the locals to smooth over relations
What had happened
Q29
Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Mike Gatting yelled at Shakoor Rana
In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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In 1987 Dr Edward Taub at the University of Alabama-Birmingham began to focus on the area of stroke-recovery He sought to investigate the potential for lsquoconstraint-based therapyrsquo to help in the recovery of movement in affected limbs With an impaired arm for instance the therapy involves restraining the patientrsquos good arm over a period of intensive therapy on the affected arm This achieved major progress in neuroplasticity where the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury
Edward Taub arrived at this breakthrough partly thanks to his earlier experiments in Maryland What did he do in Maryland that carries some relevance today in current affairs
Q30
Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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Edward Taub
His experiments were on monkeys in the Institute of Behavioural Science in the Silver Spring case
This is the case that increased PETArsquos popularity
THANK YOU
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