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Vikram Joshi | 29 April 2012

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been possible without ....
• Rajiv Rai • Srinath TB
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• Vikram Joshi • Prasad Sawant
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Finals - Rules
• 17 questions clockwise, infinite bounds
• Theme round, 9 questions, 3 pounces per team
• 17 questions anti-clockwise, infinite bounds
• Quick written round, 8 questions
• If there are 2 or more answers required, the team that gets all
will get the full 10 points. In case no one gets all, then part
points will be awarded.

• As always, I am an Answer Nazi, so what I say goes…

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CLOCKWISE (17 Questions, +10 Each Correct)

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The oldest extant bilateral alliance in history started in 1373
and witnessed marriages, transfer of properties, military
intelligence sharing, trade alliances and others.

It came close to collapse in the 1960s when one country was
refused military support from the other to quell uprisings and
secession activities in its colonies.

Name the two countries and the specific incident which
brought about this fissure between them?

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Portugal and England (later the UK)
The Goa Liberation war in 1961

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Word X derived from her own name as well as Word Y derived
from the name of the place of her birth both came into the
lexicon with their current meaning only in the 19th century.

The third century philosopher Maximus of Tyre claimed “…For
they seem to me to have practiced love after their own
fashion, … for they said they loved many, and were captivated by
all things beautiful. What Alcibiades and Charmides and Phaedrus
were to him (Socrates), Gyrinna and Atthis and Anactoria were to
her ...”

Give me X and Y.

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Sapphic and Lesbian

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In the 16th century, Gregory Martin published a Catholic tract in
England where he expressed the hope that the Catholic shall
triumph and referred to a Biblical story. For this, the printer
William Carter was executed as it was seen as sedition against the
Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.

Which Biblical story is this which has also been depicted by
Gustav Klimt (kept in the Belvedere Museum in Vienna) here?

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You will see a painting by Gustav Klimt in the next slide. It is kept
in the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

Identify the biblical story that is depicted in this painting.

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Judith and the Head of Holofrenes

Judith saved the armies of Israel when she slept with the enemy
general Holofernes and then when he was asleep, killed him by
driving a tent peg through his head

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If “birthers” are people who believe President Obama was not
born in the USA but in Kenya and is hence not qualified to be
President and;

If “deathers” are people who believe the Osama assassination
was staged and he is not really dead;

Who are “truthers”?

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9/11 conspiracy theorists who believe 9/11 was an “inside job” by
the CIA and Mossad

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The following three items were utilized during a (two-word)
ceremonial event for about a millennium until discontinued in
1978.

Name the event and the person who discontinued it.

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The following three items were utilized during a (two-word)
ceremonial event for about a millennium until discontinued in
1978.
Name the event and the person who discontinued it.

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Papal Coronation ended by Pope John Paul I

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Starting in the 1960’s, Israel launched a unique and very ambitious
wildlife program.
Targeted species included the Asiatic wild ass (a big success) and
the ostrich (a complete failure). Their efforts went to extreme
lengths : In one spectacular instance, four Persian fallow deer
were smuggled out of Iran.
Other species include the Arabian white oryx; four of the
antelopes, were purchased from the Phoenix Zoo in 1978.

What was Israel trying to do?

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The program aimed to bring back “the animals of the Bible to the
land of the Bible” by reintroducing species that became extinct in
Israel in the past 2 millenia

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The “Black Museum” was founded in 1875 and visitors started
going there from 1877 onwards. The collection grew from an Act
of the UK Parliament allowing the curators to take what they
deemed interesting and study-worthy from people they came
across on their daily job.

In 1951, a radio series hosted by Orson Welles called The Black
Museum, inspired by the catalogue of items on display went on
air. Each week, the programme featured an item from the
museum and a dramatization of the story surrounding the object
to appeal to the macabre interest of listeners.

Where would you find the Black Museum and what is so special
about it’s exhibits?

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New Scotland Yard, London

Features criminal memorabilia
including Jack the Ripper’s
letter, assorted hangmen’s
nooses and death masks and
the fake de Beers diamond

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This song “Jealous Guy” (originally sung by John Lennon) is a
cover sung by this singer for the Amnesty International Campaign
to Save Darfur.

The singer is now the Culture Minister of his country. Who?

ID this singer and his native country.

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Youssou N’Dour of Senegal

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The campaign against the “Four Pests” in China to save valuable
grain in the late 1950’s resulted in the near-extinction of X in
mainland China.
Chairman Mao had failed to see the importance of X in controlling
other pests and the rice yield actually stated falling in the years
since.
Due to this event, the resulting ecological imbalance resulted in
millions of additional deaths during the Great Chinese Famine
following the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960’s.

What is X?

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The Eurasian Tree Sparrow

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In January 1933, when the Nazis took control of Germany, his
books were prominently identified, burnt and destroyed.
He quipped “ What progress we are making! In the Middle Ages
they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning
my books.”

He escaped the Nazis but his 4 elderly sisters didn’t – all 4 died in
extermination camps.

Which Goethe prize winning (for contributions to German literary
culture) personality is this?

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Sigmund Freud

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

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The following people have something in common. Connect them
through that connection. (Non-exhaustive list)

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All Bollywood actresses who were Jewish by religion

Firoza Begum alias Susan Solomon
Pramila alias Esther Victoria Abraham
Sulochana alias Ruby Meyers
Nadira alias Florence Ezekiel
Pearl Padamsee

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AND BACK TO THE FINALS…..

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She initially wrote her NY Times bestselling book under the
penname “Snowqueens Icedragon” as fanfiction for another
book.
However, she removed her fanfic after she received several
complaints about the explicit sexual nature of the relationship
she created between the leading characters (including scenes of
BDSM).
She then rewrote the original book with changes in character
names, set it in a city and released the fanfiction as a book.
In 2012, she was included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of
the Year.

ID the author (5) and her inspiration (5).

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E.L. James (Erika Leonard)
Author of “Fifty Shades of Grey”

Twilight

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Identify this Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University and a leading figure in postcolonial
philosophy.

Also identify his seminal work in postcolonial studies (1978) for
which he is best known.

He passed away in 2003 after a battle with leukemia.

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Edward Said
Author of the groundbreaking work “Orientalism” in 1978 which
contended that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be
inextricably tied to the imperial societies that produced it, making
much of the work inherently politicized, servile to power, and
therefore suspect.

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This habit is an import from another country – and is rarely carried
out in the original country except for tourist areas.

It’s original purpose is described either as disinfecting the rim of
the bottle or to prevent flies from settling on the bottle.

However, marketing experts believe it to be more of a “ritual”, to
make you closer to the brand and mark you out as “in the know”
when you do it.

What is this “ritual”?

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Serving Corona beer with
a wedge
of lemon in the neck
of the bottle

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This natural phenomenon, according to research presented in
February 2012, suggests that phytoplankton blooms are triggered
by the blue part of the sunlight’s spectrum. Why this happens is
as yet unknown.
In a phytoplankton bloom, these unicellular algae start secreting
toxins which can significantly harm marine life and through
consumption of seafood harm humans as well.
What is the colloquial name, now no longer considered
correct, of this phenomenon that comes from the specific species
of algae Karenia brevis found in the Gulf of Mexico along the
coast of Florida and Texas?

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This natural phenomenon, according to research presented in
February 2012, suggests that phytoplankton blooms are triggered
by the blue part of the sunlight’s spectrum. Why this happens is
as yet unknown.
In a phytoplankton bloom, these unicellular algae start secreting
toxins which can significantly harm marine life and through
consumption of seafood harm humans as well.
What is the colloquial name, now no longer considered
correct, of this phenomenon that comes from the specific species
of algae Karenia brevis found in the Gulf of Mexico along the
coast of Florida and Texas? (image on next 2 slides)

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Red Tides
The more correct term for this is algal blooms (and where
necessary - harmful algal blooms). Not all such blooms are red in
colour and this phenomenon has nothing to do with tides.

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This lady’s achievement was overshadowed by a major event that
happened the day before. By profession, she was a journalist and
scriptwriter for DFW Griffiths.

Name her achievement and the reason it was overshadowed.

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This lady’s achievement was overshadowed by a disaster that
happened the day before. By profession, she was a journalist and
scriptwriter for DFW Griffiths.

Name her achievement and the reason it was overshadowed.

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Harriet Quimby who was the first woman to fly across the
English Channel, on April 16 1912, did so the day after the sinking
of the Titanic.

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You will hear an excerpt from a speech made in 1968 by Enoch
Powell, Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West. This
speech – called by Powell as “The Birmingham speech”– was
considered instrumental in the Conservatives surprise victory in
the 1970 general election.

How do we better know this speech (the result of a misquote as
you can hear in the audio) and what was the subject of this
speech?

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The “Rivers of Blood” speech
A speech criticizing Commonwealth immigration, as well as
proposed anti-discrimination legislation in the United Kingdom

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Considered the best wood when it comes to strength and
hardness together, it is used for diverse purposes like baseball
bats, tool handles, drum sticks, rowing paddles, lacrosse sticks
and many others.
Its use in the making of a key implement in a particular sport was
widespread till the late ‘20s before replaced by steel, titanium and
graphite. Today, only collectors and those with a love for the past
use this wood.
In Musselburgh, Scotland, anyone can participate in the Scottish
Championships because these wood-based implements are
available free of charge to anyone.

Name the wood and the sport.

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Hickory wood used to make golf club shafts

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CONNECT ROUND

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Scoring for Theme Round

Theme on view 1 : +30/-20
Theme on view 2 / view 3 : +20/-15
Theme on view 8 / view 9 : +5/0

Direct Correct Answer : +10
Correct Answer on Pounce : +10
Incorrect Answer on Pounce : -5
3 Pounces per team

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All Things Bright And
Thus Spake Zarathustra Beam Me Up Scottie
Beautiful

The Boys From Brazil I Am Become Death Abbaesque

Between Gemini And
Money, Money, Money Simon Says
Leo

Thus Spake Zarathustra
As a divinity Aredvi Sura X is of enormous significance to the
Zoroastrian religion, for as a representative of Aban ("the
waters"), she is in effect the divinity towards whom the Yasna
service – the primary act of worship – is directed. To this day
reverence for water is deeply ingrained in Zoroastrians.

As the Goddess of the Waters, she is associated with
fertility, healing and wisdom similar to another Indo-Iranian
Goddess Saraswati.

According to Yasnas 5 & 105, Zarathustra prayed to X for the
conversion of King Vistaspa – the first royal to convert to the new
faith.

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Anahita

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Beam Me Up Scottie!
The Star Trek movie franchise has garnered 14 nominations for
Academy Awards till date with both “Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home” and “Star Trek” receiving the most with 4.

However, it has only won 1 Academy Award out of these
nominations (in 2010).

What did they win the Academy Award for?

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Academy Award for Best Makeup (Star Trek)

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All Things Bright And Beautiful
This is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy
surrounding its central supermassive black hole.
They are among the most luminous, powerful, and energetic
objects known in the universe. They tend to inhabit the very
centers of active young galaxies and can emit up to a thousand
times the energy output of the Milky Way.

The most luminous of them emit radiation across the
spectrum, almost equally, from X-rays to the far-infrared with a
peak in the ultraviolet-optical bands, with some of them also
being strong sources of radio emission and of gamma-rays.
How do we better know them?

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Quasars (or quasi-stellar radio source)

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The Boys From Brazil
His original surname was “da Silva” but as it was a very common
last name in Brazil, he decided on taking his mother’s maiden
name X as the name he would be known by.

He was instrumental in bringing Audi cars into his native
country, both as an import and manufacturing business. Audi
entered Brazil in 1994 via his company, X Import, founded in 1993.
Sales began in April that year, just a month before his death. In
1999, Audi X was created as a joint venture of Audi with X Import.

Give me X.

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Senna

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I Am Become Death..
This billboard was put up outside the main facility in X – the site
where most of the work on the Manhattan Project was done.
Where is X?

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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Abbaesque
The song you are about to hear is in French titled “Bravo, tu as
gagne” (Bravo, you’ve won) sung by the famous French
chanteuse X as a cover version of another song by ABBA.

The recording uses a slightly remixed version of the original ABBA
backing track & the lead as well as backing vocals (by X, Anni-Frid
Lyngstad, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus)

Who is X?

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Mirielle Mathieu

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Money, Money, Money
Her first appearance was on a Roman sestertius minted on the
orders of the Emperor Hadrian. She reappeared on English
coinage during the reign of Charles II and was reputed by Samuel
Pepys to have been modeled after a Duchess who refused to
become one of the King’s mistresses.

Since then, she appeared on all British coinage till 2008. In the
spring of 2008, the Royal Mint unveiled new coin designs
“reflecting a more modern twenty-first century Britain” which did
not feature her image anywhere. This decision courted some
controversy, with tabloid press campaigns, in particular that of
the Daily Mail, launched to "save ____".

Who is this?

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Britannia

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Simon Says
What is the title of Simon Cowell’s autobiography?

Hint: The title is the same sentence he uses to preface every
critique of singers on American Idol and on the X Factor – a
catchphrase of sorts for him.

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I don’t mean to be rude, but…

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Between Gemini And Leo
In an interview to the NY Times, the author claims two of his
influences for his book to be Randy Shilts' “And the Band Played
On” and Richard Rhodes' “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” –
both histories of research into different fields (the AIDS epidemic
in the USA and the race for nuclear weapon development
respectively).

He also claims that the defining moment for him was "when he
conceived of his book as a biography". This allowed him to make
a very readable book out of a dry subject.

ID the book and the author.

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Answer for Theme Round

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Stefano Gabbana and
Domenico Dolce
Miuccia Prada Louis Vuitton Coco Chanel

Giorgio Armani

Hubert de Givenchy
Calvin Klein
Louis Vuitton

Valentino Garavani Hugo Boss Ralph Lauren Christian Dior

Answer for Theme Round

The connect of course is…

People who have lent their names to high fashion brands.

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AUDIENCE QUESTION - CONNECT

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Answer for Audience Theme Round

Visuals from left to right are:
Kaalia, Jaadugar, Andha Kanoon, Coolie, Bombay to Goa, Satte
pe Satta, Trishul, Deewar, Black, Sholay and Zanjeer

The connect of course is…

Amitabh Bachchan movies.

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ANTI CLOCKWISE (17 Questions, +10 Each Correct)

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ID this famous picture of a decked out woman and ID what she is
wearing.
To draw attention to his discovery (which needed none), her
husband made up a story about her hiding away this jewelry in
her shawl and smuggling it out of the country.

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ID this famous picture of a decked out woman and ID what she is
wearing.

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Sophia Schliemann wearing “Priams treasure” (will also accept
the “Jewels of Helen”).
Her husband Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have excavated
ancient Troy at Hisarlik in modern day Turkey.

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Prof Richard Binzel of MIT first presented this at the UN
conference in 1995. A revised version was discussed at another
conference in Torino in 1999.
The Torino Impact Hazard Scale was thus approved by the
international community.
It measures the probabilistic impact of an event using integer
values on a scale of 0 to 10. So far, there has been one event
rated 8 in 1908 and one event rated 10 which occurred over 65
million years ago. There are two events currently set at Level 1
and are likely to occur in 2040 and 2048.

What does the Torino Impact Hazard Scale measure?

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Impact of Near-Earth objects colliding with earth

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If you travelled through France, you’d see many store fronts with
unique depictions of horse heads and horseshoes featuring above
them.

What do these stores sell and why do they have to do this?

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If you travelled through France, you’d see many store fronts with
unique depictions of horse heads and horseshoes featuring above
them.

They arose from a need to distinguish the stores from the others
as they were not allowed to advertise in any other way.

What do these stores sell?

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These are the boucheries chevalines (Horse-butchers) selling
horsemeat

They have to use this method as traditionally they have not been
allowed to sell or advertise their products with other meat and
produce

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

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The original version of the film “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”
that played in theaters in 1968 contained a moment in which the
sassy maid Tillie responds to the question "Guess who's coming
to dinner now?" with the sarcastic one-liner: “X?"

After X’s “premature death” on April 4, 1968, this line was
removed from the film, so by August 1968, almost all theaters
showings of this film had this line omitted.

Who was X?

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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

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This 1915 painting “A Discussion of the Piltdown Skull” by John
Cooke of the men involved in the Piltdown Man hoax played its
part of glorifying the alleged hoaxers.

A significant element that added to the gravitas was the portrait
on the wall and the man standing in front of him. It seemed as if
the legacy of the man in the portrait was being passed down to
this gentleman who had originally reported the findings.

Name both - the man in the portrait and the man who found the
Piltdown Man?

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This 1915 painting “A Discussion of the Piltdown Skull” by John
Cooke of the men involved in the Piltdown Man hoax played its
part of glorifying the alleged hoaxers. (image on next slide)
A significant element that added to the gravitas was the portrait
on the wall and the man standing in front of him. It seemed as if
the legacy of the man in the portrait was being passed down to
this gentleman who had originally reported the findings.

Name both - the man in the portrait and the man who found the
Piltdown Man?

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Charles Darwin and Charles Dawson

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You will hear a composer playing an excerpt from his Symphony
No. 7 in C Major which when composed in December 1941 was
dedicated to a particular city.
Starting an hour before it was first broadcast throughout the city
on loudspeakers in August 1942, aerial bombing and artillery
silenced enemy guns long enough to hear it over a quiet day.
When it was first played, listening audiences openly wept with
emotion – that the world remembered them.

Identify the composer and the city it was dedicated to.

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Dmitri Shostakovich playing an excerpt from the Leningrad
symphony on the piano.

The symphony is still played everyday at the main cemetery in
Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to commemorate the close to 1 million
victims of the 900 day siege of the city in 1941-44

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In a paper published in Environmental Research Letters, a group
of academics led by Damo Matthews of Concordia University did
a study of the impact of increasingly warm winters on a key
popular activity of Canada.
They took up 142 locations where this activity happens and
noticed a significant decline in the amount of time available
annually. They predict that soon there will be no more of this
activity.

What activity and what were the 142 “research subjects” that
were observed?

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Outdoor skating and natural skating rinks
(lakes, plains, rivers, etc.) which support the outdoor skating
season.

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Cirque de Soleil is, of course, the well known circus that
originated in Quebec. One of Cirque de Soleil's shows, "O", has
been playing at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas from 1998.

It was developed by Sylvie
Frechette (Canada) who won gold
with the women's synchronized swim
team at the Barcelona Olympics
in 1992, and silver in Atlanta in 1996.

Why did she pick “O” as the name of her show?

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Eau is the French word for water – and the show is a water-based
show taking place in a 1.5 million gallon tank of water

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The image shows a conspicuous isolated hill with steep, often
vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top.
In some regions, such as the north central and northwestern
United States, the word is used for any hill.
The word for it comes from a French word meaning "small hill";
its use is prevalent in the western United States – and has given
it’s name to a city in south-western Montana state.

What’s the good word?

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Butte

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Marie Antoinette has often been accused of showing her
contempt for her subjects through the sentence “Let them
eat cake”.
However, there is ample proof that she didn’t say this – and
various combinations of the sentence have been attributed
to other hated Queens of France.

She is attested and recorded however as making the rather
banal observation “There are a lot of people at Versailles
today” apropos of nothing. This is the only recorded
sentence she is said to have spoken.

Why specifically did she say this?

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She addressed the sentence in the “general direction” of
Madame du Barry – the mistress of Louis XV

This conferred on du Barry the right to “not be ignored” by all
other members of the French court.

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Celebrated on the 5th of January every year, it is traditionally the
evening when the traditional order of things was reversed – a
Christian usurping of the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Roman
festival of Saturnalia.

On this day the King and all those who were highborn would
become peasants and vice versa. Midnight signaled the end of his
rule and the world would return to normal.

Shakespeare wrote a play to be performed as part of the
entertainment on this evening - The play has many elements that
are reversed, such as a woman dressing as a man, and a servant
imagining that he can become a nobleman.
Identify this festival.

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Twelfth Night – the night that concludes the 12 days of Christmas
and marks the coming of Epiphany

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Hanno the Navigator, during the famous exploration of the west
coast of Africa, says that after rounding the Horn of the
South, they came upon an island full of savages, mostly females
full of hair and based on the interpreters explanations, they were
called ________ which was Greek for “tribe of hairy women”.
The males ran away climbing up rocks and hurling stones at
Hanno’s men. Three females were caught but they kept fighting
and therefore had to be killed. Their skin was brought back to
Carthage. However, when Carthage was destroyed, these skins
were lost and with it any evidence of what Hanno might have
encountered.

In 1847, what name did the American physician and missionary
Jeffries Wyman bring back into modern usage?

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Wyman was studying primate specimens from Liberia and from the
physical features assumed these are the “people” Hanno might
have encountered. So he called them “gorillas”.

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The dance you see is a traditional English folk dance performed
with sticks, handkerchiefs and bells.
The name of this dance/dancers commemorates an event that
happened in the Mediterranean in the 15th century and was hailed
by the Christian world at large then. The original dance used
swords which are replaced by sticks in the English version.

Identify this dance and the event that is commemorated through
it.

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Morris Dancing

(From the original “Moorish” dancing)

Commemorates the Spanish conquest of Muslim Granada in 1492

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X was founded in 1991 by the treaty of Asuncion and amended by
the 1994 treaty of Ouro Preto. It’s official languages are
Portuguese, Spanish and Guarani.
It’s Parliament of 81 members met for the first time in 2007.

What is X?

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Mercosur / Mercosul

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New Yorkers feel very strongly about their area code 212 – and
those who are determined to have a 212 area code now must rely
on luck of the draw when they establish their service or rely on
websites where they can purchase the highly coveted area code.

However, a few years ago, thousands of 212 numbers suddenly
became available to Manhattanites leading many new 646 area
code people to be able to switch.

Why did this happen?

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The events on 9/11 caused thousands of 212 area code numbers
from downtown Manhattan to no longer have any subscribers –
freeing them up for others

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Instituted in 1934, Nikolai Melnik won this award in 1986 for
placing nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear plant. Georgi
Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev have won it the most number of
times (4).
Rakesh Sharma became the first and only Indian to win it in 1984.

Which foreign national won this award in 1961 and for what
"achievement"?

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Ramon Mercador won the Hero of the Soviet Union medal for
assassinating Leon Trotsky

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In an interview to a chronicler of his works he said “Contemporary
poets in India generally write in English when they have gone through
English medium schools. I write in English for this reason and cannot
write in any Indian language.”
Though Marathi speaking, you can see a glimpse of his genius for using
“regular Gujarati English” in his poem “A very Indian poem in Indian
English”
“I am standing for peace and non-violence.
Why world is fighting fighting
Why all people of world
Are not following Mahatma Gandhi,
I am simply not understanding.
Ancient Indian Wisdom is 100% correct.
I should say even 200% correct.”

Who is this amazing poet and what “language” did he claim to write
in?

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Nissim Ezekiel – a chronicler of Bombay through “Swadeshi
Angrezi”

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The video is Marion Anderson performing in front of 75,000
people at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter 1939.

Open air concerts were not allowed at that venue, but the
Roosevelts led by Eleanor practically bulldozed their ways
through permissions to get her to sing there.

This concert was in response to an incident that had just
happened a few weeks before which led Eleanor Roosevelt to
take such a hard stance.

What incident was this?

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Marion Anderson was not allowed to perform at the Daughters
of the American Revolution hall or at any “white” public school
halls in segregated Washington DC

Appalled by this, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from her post at the
DAR and arranged for a new venue for Anderson

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

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D Vikram Joshi | 29 April 2012

One of silent movie star Dorothy Gibson's most famous screen
roles was that of herself in X, based on her true life experiences
travelling from Italy to New York during a particular event. X was
released a month after the event.
Gibson was convinced by her manager to appear in a film based
on it. She not only starred in the one-reel drama, but wrote the
scenario. She even appeared in the very same clothing she had
worn then – a white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan
and polo coat (image attached in next slide).
Although X was a tremendous success in America, England, and
France, the only known prints were destroyed in a fire 2 years
later.
ID movie name X.

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One of silent movie star Dorothy Gibson's most famous screen
roles was that of herself in X, based on her experiences during a
legendary event. X, released a month after the event, was the
first of many films about this over the years.
After arriving in New York from Italy after the event, Gibson was
convinced by her manager to appear in a film based on it. She not
only starred in the one-reel drama, but wrote the scenario. She
even appeared in the very same clothing she had worn then – a
white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan and polo coat
(image attached in next slide).
Although X was a tremendous success in America, England, and
France, the only known prints were destroyed in a fire 2 years
later.
ID movie name X.

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Saved from the Titanic

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A QUICK WRITTEN ROUND (8 Questions, +5/-5 Each)

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You’ll find huts like this on the Nilgiri plateau belonging to which
tribe which numbered about 1100 individuals in 2011?

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ID this lawyer and domestic partner of Anna Nicole Smith (and
alleged father of her baby daughter Danielynn) who shares his
name with a famous radio shock-jock.

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ID this famous street – the crookedest street in the world.

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ID the only woman in this picture of the famous Solvay
conference held in Brussels in 1911.

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ID the town/city this famous picture was clicked in.

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What do you call this sculpture on top of the Brandenburg Gate
in Berlin?
(It is the generic name for any image/sculpture for a 4-horsed
chariot)

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The famous picture of “Lunch atop a skyscraper” from 1932 shows
lunchtime atop which famous New York City landmark?

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ID the two (need both) people in this Annie Lebowitz photograph
for a Rolling Stone magazine cover.

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AND THE ANSWERS ARE …..

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1. Todas
2. Howard Stern
3. Lombard Street
4. Madame Curie
5. Yalta
6. Quadriga
7. The RCA / GE building (at Rockefeller center)
8. Yoko and John Lennon

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AND THE FINAL SCORES ARE …..

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THANK YOU

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