Bqc Gen Quiz finals 2014

The MQF Open
Gen Quiz - Finals
ABHINAV DASGUPTA, VIKRAM JOSHI AND SUMANT SRIVATHSAN

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The Format
• 6 questions written round, +5 each correct answer
• 40 questions – 20 clockwise/20 anticlockwise
• +10 points each on Infinite Bounce
• Infinite pounces throughout quiz
• +10 / -10 scoring for pounces
• 8 questions written, differential scoring
• The Quizmaster is “considered to be”
right in case of any quibbles

WRITTEN ROUND
6 QUESTIONS BASED ON PANELS FROM TRANSMETROPOLITAN
+5 EACH CORRECT

1
This panel from Transmetropolitan #57
is a near-replica of which iconic image?

2
Whose thought is Spider Jerusalem paraphrasing in this panel, and what
was the outcome of that thought?

3
Who/what is President Gary Callahan mimicking on the cover of his
book, Simple New Truth?

4
Whose words are these two characters quoting? Also fill in the blank.

6
In 2001, the Montecito Picture Company
acquired the rights to this image, seen in
Transmetropolitan as the symbol of the
Transient Rights Movement, for use to
promote a new science fiction comedy
about aliens landing on Earth via a
meteorite strike. Name the film.

PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS
+5 EACH CORRECT ANSWER

John Filo‟s Pulitzer-winning photograph
of the Kent State University shootings
on May 4, 1970.

Bruce Wayne, who picks the bat as his symbol, and becomes Batman.

“If the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” – Richard Nixon

Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

20 QUESTIONS CLOCKWISE
+10 EACH CORRECT ANSWER; INFINITE POUNCES THROUGH QUIZ

1
During the Bubonic Plague epidemic in Bombay in 1896-1900, over 1000
people died per week and a hundred thousand people fled the city.
Since the reasons for the plague were not fully understood at the time
(they believed it to be spread by unclean air), the Bombay City
Improvement Trust created by the British Parliament in 1898
recommended two specific changes to the city geography to combat
the plague.
What were these 2 changes to the city?

1
One was opening up of undeveloped suburbs to the north of the
crowded island city. Both Chembur and Bandra were developed at this
time.
The second built new streets perpendicular to the sea front to bring
“healthy” sea air into the congested inner city. Princess Street and
Sydenham Road (now Mohammed Ali Road) are examples of such
streets.

2
When an attempt to remove the Spanish royal family from Madrid after
Napoleon‟s occupation of Spain sparked off widespread riots, the
Mamelukes of his Imperial Guard were sent in to quell the riots. The
crowd, however, turned on the attackers, thinking they were Moors.
The riot is captured in the painting on the next slide, but the aftermath is
significantly more famous.
Explain and identify the artist of this painting.

2
The painting by Francisco Goya depicts events of The Second of
May 1808, after which Joachim Murat‟s troops quelled the riots
and executed several of those arrested, made famous by
Goya‟s The Third of May 1808.

3
Before he besieged Constantinople in 1453 CE, Mehmet the Conqueror
took care to block any passage of ships through the Sea of Marmara
and into the Golden Horn by building a massive fort and reinforcing
another massive fort (2 of the largest in the world) – opposite each other
equipped with the latest in heavy cannon.
What were the names of these forts – work it out given the unique
geographical position of Constantinople?
(Need Turkish names for full points. English gives you half points)

3
Rumeli Hisari and Anadolu Hisari
Rumeli (Roman) of course was on the European side of the Bosphorus
while Anadolu (Anatolian) was on the Asian side.
(Half points for Roman and Anatolian forts)

4
While it is now a British cultural icon, it owes its origins to the Franco-Prussian
War in 1870, when Napoleon III ordered one million cans of meat for his
troops, and the task went to a Scotsman in Canada called John L. Johnston.
With meat transport and storage being problematic, Johnston came up with
the product idea to meet the needs of the French emperor.
While the first part of the trademarked name of the product is derived from
the Latin word for the animal it is derived from, the second part owes itself to
an electromagnetic substance endowing people with superhuman power in
Lord Bulwer-Lytton‟s then-popular novel The Coming Race?
Name the product / brand, and what it is popularly known as in the United
Kingdom.

5
At the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014, Russian figure skater – 15 year old
Julia Lipnitskaia – has created controversy through her planned skating
routine (shown in the video below which she earlier performed at the
2014 European Figure Skating Championships).
Even though both newspapers and sports people have called the
routine beautiful, people all over the world have called it disrespectful
and have blamed historical ethnic Russian emotions for the tone-deaf
nature of the routine.
What exactly are the critics objecting to?

5
Julia‟s signature piece is set to John Williams' theme from Steven
Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust drama Schindler’s List.
But that's not all: The routine features Lipnitskaia skating as the film‟s
iconic “girl in the red coat,” a young Polish Jew who is killed by Nazi
soldiers.

6
The generic term used for a number of Shia Turkish militant races is an
Ottoman Turkish expression for „Crimson Head‟ - a phrase derived from
the distinctive nature of their headgear.
While Babar had some of these warriors fighting alongside him at
Panipat, their major influx into India came with Humayun, who was
provided an army of 12,000 of them by Shah Tahmasp of Persia.
What were these militants known as?
Also, what was the Shah’s only condition for providing Humayun military
assistance - something the former‟s father had also tried unsuccessfully
with the latter‟s. The condition laid caused immense happiness
in the family of his wife Hamida Banu.

6
Qizilbash / Qizilbashi
Shah Tahmasp‟s condition was that Humayun should convert from a
Sunni to a Shia, which the latter did temporarily

7
While this language was largely regarded as a variant of Hindi, George
Grierson in 1908 first deemed it a distinct language with different dialects
spread over a principal geographical area. Today, the language is
recognized by the Sahitya Akademi and National Academy of
Letters, as well as the UGC for the awarding of degrees at certain
universities.
With around 50 million speakers (of whom around 60% speak the most
common dialect), it is recognized as a state language. There have been
demands since 2010 (most recently in the monsoon session of Parliament
in 2013) to include the language as one of the official languages of
India.
Which language? And what is the most widely spoken dialect?

8
Lawrence Weingarten (1897-1975) was one of the leading film producers
in the US in the 1940s and 1950s. In an association of over 30 years with
MGM, he produced classics like I Take This Woman (1940), Adam’s Rib
(1949), Pat and Mike (1952) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).
What did the Academy Awards witness for the only time (although it
could potentially have taken place at least 12 times before and after
that) when Weingarten was honoured with the Irving G. Thalberg
Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 1974 ceremony?

8
The only time Katherine Hepburn made an appearance at the
Academy Awards (to hand Weingarten the award).

9
The image on the right is a poster for a documentary about the lady in
the middle. The poster was designed by her in 1917 for The Blind Man‟s
Ball. On the left is a picture of her with one of her famous associates.
The film pays tribute to her role in the rise of an art movement through its
title.
Name her, and the film.

9
Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada.
The Blind Man was a leading avant garde art
publication put out by Dadaists in New York.
The man in the black suit is Marcel Duchamp.

10
Red box - Clark Kent. The name comes from
Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, and was drawn
to look like Harold Lloyd.
Yellow box - Models for the appearance of
Clark Kent (Harold Lloyd) and Superman
(Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.)

Identify the singer (majorly in the news in January 2014) and the
song.

11
This is the ______ Ice Dome, the venue for the skating events at the Sochi
2014 Winter Olympics. It pays tribute to two Russian cultural icons, one
through it‟s name – though it could be construed as a generic term as
well – and the other through its design.
Identify what the design is based on and FITB.

11
The Bolshoi (named Bolshoi – meaning large)
It‟s modelled on the Faberge Egg.

12
In 1863, the United States Congress established a national banking
system and charged the US Treasury to oversee the issuance of national
banknotes.
On April 14, 1865, a separate body was instituted and charged with
preventing the counterfeiting of this currency.
In 1901, a significant event (which echoed a similar one of its founding
date) added one more task to this organization‟s duties.
Name the organization, the new task, and the event that necessitated it.

12
The United States Secret Service, which was given the additional
responsibility of protecting the President of the USA after the
assassination of President William McKinley in 1901.
April 14, 1865 was also the date
on which Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated.

13
In the late 18th-early 19th century, one way to get out of the ghastly
punishment of transportation for life to Australia from England was to
“plead one‟s belly”.
This is a long-standing plea that actually began in the late 14th century.
This plea became unnecessary once certain legislation was passed in the
UK in 1931.
What exactly is “pleading one’s belly”?

13
Pregnant women with late-term fetuses could plead to not be
executed or transported.

14
Statistically speaking, a person has a one in 9.2 quintillion chance of
doing this perfectly. One in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to be very, very
exact.
An autistic teenager from Illinois was perfect in his first two rounds in 2010
(a 1 in 13,460,000 feat), but did not go on to attain ultimate perfection.
Perfection in this activity has never been documented till date.
The incentive to do so got many dollars sweeter in 2013 when billionaire
Warren Buffet offered $1 billion to anyone who does a perfect job with
this.
What sporting activity is this?

14
Filling out a perfect
March Madness bracket

15
The competition between these two clubs (collectively known as the
Old Firm) and their fans is more than just sporting rivalry – there are
divides based on religious identity (Catholic v/s Protestant), on national
identity (Irish v/s British), Northern Ireland related (Republican v/s Loyalist)
or social ideology (Socialism v/s Conservatism).
The ferocity of the rivalry has made it rare for a player to represent both
teams during his career – only 5 such players have done so since 1935.
Identify both teams and the city where they are based.

15
Rangers and Celtics in Glasgow, Scotland

16
According to their website, this restaurant chain‟s name means “lucky
peach” in Japanese, though there is no such word in the language. The
Chinese characters for the word, however, read “Pai-fu”, and translates to
“hundred luck”.
The word comes close to being a mispronounced English expletive, one of
the reasons the chef who founded the chain claims he picked it for a
name. Another reason is that Wu Pai-fu is the real name of a man whose
work inspires the chain‟s cuisine.
Name the restaurant chain, its founder, and explain why Wu Pai-fu was an
inspiration.

16
David Chang’s Momofuku restaurant chain is partially named
after Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen noodles.

17
The author of this highly acclaimed war novel, ironically, saw action for
the first time only one year after the book was published - as a war
correspondent in Cuba and later in Mexico and Greece.
En route to Cuba, the ship SS Commodore struck a sandbar in a dense
fog and sank, leading to the author and some fellow shipmates being
adrift on a dinghy for almost two days, an experience later to be
described in his well-known short story „The Open Boat‟.
Identify the author and his well-known war novel.

18
The only occasion when something very familiar to Bengali film and
music audiences of the day happened in Bollywood.
What are we talking about – 2 IDs and what “relationship” do they
share?

Sandhya Mukhopadhyay – the voice of Suchitra Sen in Bengali cinema
sang for her in a Hindi movie Mamta

19
The painter Francis Bacon was profoundly influenced by a certain
image – so much so that he used representations of that image in
several paintings (see next slide).
What cinematic image was this? (Specific answer required)

20
On August 20, 1949, Big Ben – the clock above London‟s Parliament
buildings failed to ring at 9pm as usual causing thousands of alarmed
BBC radio news listeners to wonder what was going on.
It rang 4 minutes later – in the words of one radio commentator “Time
stood still for 4 minutes last night”.
What unusual summer-time reason led to this delay?

20
Hundreds of roosting starlings sat on
the hands of Big Ben holding them
back from moving.

8 QUESTIONS WRITTEN
DIFFERENTIAL SCORING
Number of teams getting it right Score to each team getting it right
8 0
6 or 7 2
4 or 5 4
2 or 3 6
1 10

1
Which Actress, born in 1944, took her name from a character in The
Great Gatsby and made her film debut in the 1977 Woody Allen film
“Annie Hall” although her most famous role was as Ellen Ripley in 4
movies of the same name?

2
The term X was coined by Auguste Spectorsky in 1955 to describe rings
of prosperous communities beyond the suburbs that are commuter
towns for an urban area.
Whitefield near Bangalore and Virar and Kalyan near Mumbai are
examples of these communities.
Give us the term X.

3
What do the following three elements (necessarily, but not exhaustively)
constitute:
 Hamd (Praise to Allah)
 N’at-i-Sharif (Praise to the Prophet)
 Manqabat (Praise to the saints)

4
Connect these three images (exhaustive connect)

The only 3 mammal species to go through menopause

5
Referred to in Japan as sampuru (derived from the English word
„sample‟), this product has given rise to an industry worth over 10 billion
yen per year. It is estimated that high-end clients often make single
orders of over 1 million yen.
What exactly is sampuru?

Plastic food displays outside restaurants

6
Connect (Exhaustive list):
My Fair Lady (1957 / 1964),
The Sound of Music (1960 / 1965),
A Man for All Seasons (1962 /1966),
Amadeus (1981 / 1984).

Only 4 instances of winning both the Tony for Best play and Oscar for Best
Movie.

7
The chao, issued by the Yu‟an Dynasty in the 13th Century, was the first
state-issued currency without an intrinsic value.
This form of currency is known by a Latin word meaning “it shall be”.
What is the term used to refer to currencies such as the chao?

8
In 1896, Matthew William Gloag gave his grandfather‟s product a brand
name, whose popularity was advertised on the alcohol bottle‟s labels in
following years with the image of the country‟s national game bird, until
in 1905, the brand name itself was modified.
Name the brand, the highest selling brand of its kind in its home country.

Who is the last in this exhaustive list? Also, how is the inclusion of the
person in question unique?

Two Booker Prizes, along with Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee & Hilary Mantel
J. G. Farrell‟s second Booker was the posthumous Lost Booker for
Troubles (1970) in 2010

20 QUESTIONS ANTI-CLOCKWISE
+10 EACH CORRECT ANSWER; INFINITE POUNCES THROUGH QUIZ

21
This chemist, working for UK food manufacturers J. Lyons and
Company, was part of the team that created Mr. Whippy soft serve
icecream in collaboration with the American Mr. Softee distributors of
icecream.
A common anecdote from opponents of this person is that by inventing
soft serve ice cream, X "added air, lowered quality and raised profits".
Who is X?

22
She appeared on the cover of Time magazine thrice – the first time
sitting next to her husband, the second time with her husband as “Man
and Wife of the Year” and the third time individually as Person of the
Year.
She also had the honor of being only the second woman to address a
joint session of the US Congress.
Identify this remarkable woman who you hear here.

22
Soong May-Ling better known to the world
as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

23
The map on the left depicts a phenomenon, and the map on the right
depicts an outcome related to that phenomenon.
What is this cause-and-effect pair?
Hint: Think education.

23
The map on the left depicts the average annual snowfall in the USA. The
map on the right depicts the amount of snowfall required to close
schools.
Unsurprisingly, the threshold drops dramatically as one travels
southward.

24
Over the years, the Olympic Flame has taken
many routes and modes of transport to travel
from Olympia to the host city of the Summer or
Winter Olympic Games, including boats, buses,
aeroplanes and scuba divers.
Of these, what was unique about the 1976
Olympic flame’s transportation from Athens to
Ottawa, en route to Montréal?

24
The flame was placed in front of a sensor in Athens which used ionized
gas particles to create a digital image of the flame, which was then
transmitted via satellite to Ottawa, where a laser was used to recreate
the image in the same shape as the original.
This was then carried by runners to Montréal for the opening
ceremony, where Sandra Henderson and Stéphane Préfontaine lit the
cauldron.

25
The most common use of this term is for a mixture of sulphuric acid and
hydrogen peroxide, commonly used to clean organic residue from
surfaces. The common name for this mixture comes from the very violent
nature of the reaction as well as the ability of the mixture to eat through
anything.
What is this reaction called commonly?

25
The mixture is known as a piranha solution, as the reaction is similar to a
piranha feeding frenzy.

26
The Stefaneschi Altarpiece is a triptych by the Italian medieval
painter Giotto, commissioned by Cardinal Stefaneschi (circled in picture) to
serve as an altarpiece for one of the altars of Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
in 1320 CE.
It‟s considered to have the first instance of what later became known as
mise en abyme in art.
Simply, what is mise en abyme and connect it to an idea from an ad
campaign?

26
Mise en abyme is the effect of a
picture appearing within itself, in
a place where a similar picture
would realistically be expected
to appear – also known as the
Droste effect.
The appearance is recursive: the smaller
version contains an even smaller version
of the picture, and so on.

27
When Polynesians from Tahiti first reached Hawai‟i 1700 years ago, they
realized they had come to a beautiful location to colonize – however
with no source of food whatsoever other than what they could fish or
hunt.
Future voyages, along with Tahitian colonist, brought 24 species of food
plants like taro, yam, banana, breadfruit etc. as well as 3 species of
food animals – pigs, chickens and dogs.
What evocative name are these 24 species of plants known by based
on their journey to Hawai‟i from elsewhere?

28
In an October 1994 letter to Chemical and Engineering News, Paul Karol
of Carnegie Mellon University came up with the phrase „Transfermium
Wars‟ - calling it the often secondary (to the Space Race, i.e.) and
unnoticed tussle during the Cold War period.
What exactly did Karol call the Transfermium Wars?

28
This controversy arose due to disputes between American scientists and
Soviet scientists as to which group had first isolated elements 104 and
105 and thus had naming rights over these elements.
While the Americans named the elements Rutherfordium and
Hahnium, the Russians called it Kurchatovium and Nielsbohrium.

29
In the latter half of January 2014, Apple‟s review queue for the iTunes
App Store was bombarded with over a hundred apps all with similar
names. The move comes as part of a _____Jam, an organized protest
against a recent development.
What are they protesting?

29
CandyJam is a protest against King.com’s move to trademark the term
“candy” by flooding the App Store with hundreds of apps containing
variants of the word in their titles.

30
What major change was carried
out in this global architectural
marvel between October 2004
and February 2006 when it was
closed to the public?
Also, how was this major
renovation activity financed?

30
As a measure against corrosion, the outer aluminium layer of the spheres
was replaced by stainless steel.
The aluminium sheets were sold to the public as souvenirs of the original
Atomium to finance renovation.

The Jamaican bobsled pairs team (Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon) and
Shiva Kesavan have both secured funding to participate in the Sochi 2014
Winter Olympics through Dogecoin donations.

31
This Greek lyric poet (5-6th Century BC) was known
for his hymns and lyric poetry which addressed
themes of drinking and merrymaking, and gives his
name to the 7-syllable verse that was common in
his poetry. His name was adopted by an amateur
music club in 18th Century London, whose official
song, attributed to John Stafford Smith and Ralph
Tomlinson, was adapted to a far more sober purpose
in 1814.
Name the poet, and the 1814 song.

31
Anacreon, for whom the Anacreontic Society and the Anacreontic
Song are named. The tune of the Anacreontic Song was adapted by
Francis Scott Key as The Star-Spangled Banner in 1814.

32
This picture of Johan Santana was taken by Tom Dahlin using a camera
which he modified to function as described below:
A film based strip camera makes use of a thin slit mask inserted in between
the lens and film plane. This slit … is oriented perpendicular to the film‟s
travel path. Light must pass through the slit in order to reach the film. To
record an image, the film is set in motion, and the camera‟s shutter is
opened for a period of a few seconds, depending on the length of the
event to be recorded. Because the film is moving, stationary objects in front
of the lens produce streaks. But if a moving object passes in front of the lens
with a speed and direction in sync with the film‟s motion, a sharp undistorted
image is recorded.
For what specific purpose are such cameras actually utilized?

32
To identify winner at photo finishes at races.
The image below is Konstantin Kenteris winning the 200m at the Sydney
Summer Olympics in 2000.

33
The following images are pictorial representations of elements of a
lawsuit documented by Ian Frazier in New Yorker (1990). The defendant
is an organization whose 85 mail-order purchases have caused the
plaintiff “personal injuries, loss of business income, and mental suffering”
due to “defects in manufacturing or improper cautionary labelling”.
Name both the plaintiff and the defendant, or the title of Frazier’s piece.

33
Ian Frazier‟s piece (Coyote v/s Acme) was a fictional account of Wile E.
Coyote’s lawsuit against the Acme Company.

34
Lorenz Diefenbach (1806-1883) was a German pastor, philologist and
lexicographer who wrote extensively on the comparative linguistics of
Latin, German and Celtic languages, apart from compiling a
comprehensive Latin-German dictionary.
His most enduring contribution, however, is his 1873 novel about a
gambler and conman who, through employment and hard
work, changes his ways and gains virtue. The novel would have a strong
impact on German society and culture in the early 20th Century, though
its well-meaning origins are less well-known in the rest of the world.
Name this influential novel.

34
Arbeit Macht Frei, the phrase which became inextricably
associated with the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

35
During his isolation of lanthanum in 1841, Carl Mosander also discovered
another substance which he thought was an element, and gave it a
name derived from the Greek for “twin”, as it was found along with
lanthanum. It would even be entered in Mendeleev‟s periodic table at
#95 as “Di”.
It was not until 1885 that this substance was separated into its two
constituent elements by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, based on their
differently coloured salts.
He modified the original substance‟s name with Greek prefixes meaning
“green” and “new”, giving the two new elements their names.
Name both these elements.

35
Praesodymium – from Greek praeso (“green”) and dymos (“twin”)
Neodymium – from Greek neo (“new”) and dymos (“twin”)
The original material was tautologically called didymium (“two twins”).

36
Bhim, the chieftain of the Mahimi tribe (around modern day
Mahim, Mumbai), would call for a general meeting and feast, after
which he would propose to select warriors and tribesmen a challenge
which he needed resolved.
Willing warriors would indicate acceptance through an act, and the
chieftain, on his part, would acknowledge it with another act.
The first act gives rise to a well-known term used in unsavoury
contexts, while the second lends itself to a sobriquet meaning “brave” or
“gallant”.
What are these two terms?

36
Warriors would accept challenges by picking up a paan and
supari, leading to the use of supari in underworld contracts.
The chieftain would apply soorma to the warrior‟s eye, from which we
derive the use of Soorma as a nickname, the most famous one probably
not too worthy of it.

37
This is the second time that M. S. Subbulakshmi performed at the United
Nations General Assembly in 1966.
This song was a benediction composed for a significantly more
momentous event.
Name the writer, the occasion, and the composer who set it to music for
the UN performance.

37
Maithreem Bhajata sung by
M.S.Subbulakshmi
The Sanskrit lyrics, written by
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
of the Kanchi Mutt on the occasion
of India’s independence, were set
to a Ragamalika by Vasant Desai.

38
The images are unaltered photographs of Kawah Ijen, an active
volcanic complex in Indonesia, by day and by night, by Olivier
Grunewald.
Kawah Ijen is also a highly dangerous mining quarry, with the caldera
lake water having a pH of 0.2-0.5.
Why is the colour different?

38
The lava is coloured no differently than any other typical
volcano, i.e., red-to-yellow, depending on temperature.
The blue colour comes from the ignition of sulphuric gases resulting from
the high concentration of sulphur in the lava. During the day, the blue
flames are not visible.

39
What you shall see is an explanation of parthenogenesis, the act of
asexual reproduction in an animal that normally reproduces sexually, in
the Komodo dragon.
What is common to all Komodo dragons born out of
parthenogenesis, and how does this benefit the species?

39
All parthenogenetic hatchlings are male - eggs receiving the female
chromosome simply fail to develop!
Parthenogenesis is a means to propagate the species if there is one last
female left on an island.

40
Christian Lange was a political scientist and diplomat who played a key
role in organising the Oslo Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
in 1899, and rejoined the IPU as its Secretary General in 1909 - a post
which he held until 1933. A recognized expert in arbitration and arms
control, he also served as his country‟s delegate to the League of
Nations from its inception to his death in 1938.
In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Lange in 1921, the Committee
cited his “work as _________ and the Secretary General of the Inter-
Parliamentary Union.”
So for his work in which other post, between his two stints with the
IPU, was Lange recognized?

40
He was the first Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Can see where Dick Cheney got his inspiration clearly..

TIEBREAKERS
3 WRITTEN QUESTIONS TO BREAK A TIE

T1
A certain type of behavior is described as “bushusuru” in Japanese
based on a famous individual who famously exhibited this in 1992 on a
visit to Japan.
What exactly is bushusuru?

T2
This capital city was first discovered by the West during the 1873
expedition of HMS Basilisk, primarily meant for hydrological surveys in the
southern hemisphere. The city was one of the three islands the captain
of the Basilisk claimed for Britain, and one of two of those islands that he
named for his father, Admiral Sir Fairfax _______ (the other one being
Fairfax Harbour for the inner reach).
Name the city and the country.

T3
In January 2014, John Nimmo and Isabelle Sorley were sentenced to
prison for abusive and threatening tweets targeted at activist Caroline
Criado-Perez who was targeted because of a public campaign she was
spearheading in July 2013.
What was the aim of her campaign, which generated the abusive
responses?

T1
Public vomiting is called Bushusuru (Bush-like) in Japan.
Based on President George H.W. Bush vomiting on the Japanese PM.

T2
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Jane Austen on the British banknote.

FINAL TIEBREAKER
ONE QUESTION ON THE BUZZER

FT1
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall of Sweden was the first
Olympic athlete to be disqualified for the use of
performance-enhancing substances. The Swedish
modern pentathlon team at Mexico City (1968),
which had won bronze, had to return their medals
as a result.
What was the violation that led to Liljenwall‟s
disqualification?

FT1
He tested positive for the forbidden substance alcohol.
He claimed that he had two beers before the shooting event to calm his
nerves. Fourteen other athletes at the same event tested positive for
tranquilizers but were not disqualified.

FT2
The video is that of the 1978 song “Rapture”. The first few seconds of the
edited video show the entire band.
This song is historic in the field of music and entertainment. What first
does it hold in this context?
Also identify the band.

FT2
Rapture by Blondie (better known for being “the” American new-wave
band) was the first rap song to play on MTV ever in 1984.
The black DJ in the video of course is a very young Grandmaster Flash –
one of the pioneers of rap/hip hop in the US.

THANK YOU ALL
AND WE‟D LOVE TO SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2015!

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