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The Shyam Bhatt
 Memorial Open Quiz 2013




Researched and conducted for AFMC by:
       Major Chandrakant Nair
   6 Rounds

   Round 1 – Write Brothers – 10 questions
    Round 2 – Clockwise – 23 questions
    Round 3 – List-It
    Round 4 – Anticlockwise – 23 questions
    Round 5 – Theme – 10 questions
    Round 6 – Differential Scoring – 8 questions

   74 questions + List-It in the finals

   So, a total of 111 (37+74) questions in the quiz
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
The Guinea Pig   Roger Ebert
   Protest, brothers

   Written Round

   Topic – Protests

   10 questions

   5 points for every correct answer

   Bonus of 10 for getting all 10 correct

   Total – 60 points
   Stills from a function organized at the Arif Nagar Stadium on
    July 26, 2012. The opening ceremony featured performances
    highlighting the many famines that happened during the
    British rule in India, the mass hangings following the First
    battle for Indian independence in 1857 and the massacre at
    Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, among others.

   What was this event called?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   This was the world’s largest open-air swimming pool from 1958-
    95.

   In 1995, the pool gave way to the reconstructed Cathedral of
    Christ the Saviour (that was demolished in 1930 to harvest 20
    tons of gold in the dome). The original church, in 1882, saw the
    debut of a musical composition that had a repetitive fragment of
    the La Marseillaise, and this usage is considered an error.

   Identify the piece. Why is the usage of the French National
    Anthem in the piece thought to be wrong? Why was the
    Cathedral in news in early 2012? Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Rev. James Bevel, Strategist and Architect of the 1960s Civil
    Rights Movement, organized a march by hundreds of school
    kids on 2-5 May, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, during the
    American Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of the march
    was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation
    in the city. Many students left their schools in order to be
    arrested, set free, only to get arrested again the next day.
    However, these demonstrations had to be stopped due to the
    usage of fire hoses and police dogs to ward of the protesters.

   What name was given to these demonstrations?

   Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
What is happening in this video?
Why are many people not getting up and applauding?


                    Video Removed
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YziNNCZeNs
                  (From 1:25 to 2:10)
   “If it could be like that for me, a foreigner, a visitor, imagine what
    it must be like for the Palestinians, for the underclass, for the
    passbook carriers. I knew then that my conscience would not
    allow me to walk away from that wall, from the fate of the
    Palestinians I met: people whose lives are crushed daily by Israel's
    occupation. In solidarity, and somewhat impotently, I wrote on
    their wall that day: <BLANKED OUT>.”

   Speaking is someone who visited the Israeli wall around the
    West Bank in 2006 and later took part in an event that was
    moved to Neve Shalom (from Tel Aviv), the largest ever of its
    kind in Israel.

   Who? What did he write?
   A is the only person to do it before (and during the fight for)
    Independence. B is the most famous example after
    Independence.

   What? Also, identify both people. Images in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   They were brand new and tight and hence were removed and
    kept aside. An angry response resulted in the watch falling off.
    When the watch was being retrieved, one of the removed items
    was sighted again, and was promptly picked up to be used
    rhythmically, ‘like a metronome’ in the act that made it famous.

   This is the theory proposed by a lady named Nina, about a
    response directed at a “jerk, stooge and lackey of imperialism”.
    One of the arguments against this theory, however, was that
    large tummy that would not have let all this happen.

   What half-a-century old response are we talking about?
   Sometime in 2008, a group of scientists from Japan, France and
    US announced the discovery of around 50 caves along the old
    Silk Route. These caves were filled with paintings dating back to
    the 5th-9th centuries, and were confirmed to be the world's
    oldest-known oil paintings, predating oil painting in Europe by
    as much as six centuries.

   The paint used contained pigments such as vermilion and lead
    white. These were mixed with many binders, including natural
    resins, gums and oils, probably derived from walnuts or poppies.

   What lead to the discovery of these caves and paintings?
   In the novel Fight Club, Tyler Durden, the protagonist, travels to
    a 15th century installation that is famous as a trigger for attacks
    of acrophobia and requires a certain amount of flexibility to
    access. He urinates at the location thereby marking his first act
    of vandalism.

   What usually happens at this location?
   Graffiti refers to writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or
    sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

   So, what is Reverse Graffiti?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Stills from a function organized at the Arif Nagar Stadium on
    July 26, 2012. The opening ceremony featured performances
    highlighting the many famines that happened during the
    British rule in India, the mass hangings following the First
    battle for Indian independence in 1857 and the massacre at
    Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, among others.

   What was this event called?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   This was the world’s largest open-air swimming pool from
    1958-95.

   In 1995, the pool gave way to the reconstructed Cathedral of
    Christ the Saviour (that was demolished in 1930 to harvest
    the 20 tons of gold in the dome). The original church, in 1882,
    saw the debut of a musical composition that had a repetitive
    fragment of the La Marseillaise, and this usage is considered
    an error.

   Identify the piece. Why is the usage of the French National
    Anthem in the piece thought to be wrong? Why was the
    Cathedral in news in early 2012? Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Rev. James Bevel, Strategist and Architect of the 1960s Civil
    Rights Movement, organized a march by hundreds of school
    kids on 2-5 May, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, during the
    American Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of the march
    was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation
    in the city. Many students left their schools in order to be
    arrested, set free, only to get arrested again the next day.
    However, these demonstrations had to be stopped due to the
    usage of fire hoses and police dogs to ward of the protesters.

   What name was given to these demonstrations?

   Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
What is happening in this video?
Why are many people not getting up and applauding?


                    Video Removed
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YziNNCZeNs
                  (From 1:25 to 2:10)
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   “If it could be like that for me, a foreigner, a visitor, imagine what
    it must be like for the Palestinians, for the underclass, for the
    passbook carriers. I knew then that my conscience would not
    allow me to walk away from that wall, from the fate of the
    Palestinians I met: people whose lives are crushed daily by Israel's
    occupation. In solidarity, and somewhat impotently, I wrote on
    their wall that day: <BLANKED OUT>.”

   Speaking is someone who visited the Israeli wall around the
    West Bank in 2006 and later took part in an event that was
    moved to Neve Shalom (from Tel Aviv), the largest ever of its
    kind in Israel.

   Who? What did he write?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   A is the only person to do it before (and during the fight for)
    Independence. B is the most famous example after
    Independence.

   What? Also, identify both people. Images in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   They were brand new and tight and hence were removed and
    kept aside. An angry response resulted in the watch falling off.
    When the watch was being retrieved, one of the removed items
    was sighted again, and was promptly picked up to be used
    rhythmically, ‘like a metronome’ in the act that made it famous.

   This is the theory proposed by a lady named Nina, about a
    response directed at a “jerk, stooge and lackey of imperialism”.
    One of the arguments against this theory, however, was that
    large tummy that would not have let all this happen.

   What half-a-century old response are we talking about?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Sometime in 2008, a group of scientists from Japan, France and
    US announced the discovery of around 50 caves along the old
    Silk Route. These caves were filled with paintings dating back to
    the 5th-9th centuries, and were confirmed to be the world's
    oldest-known oil paintings, predating oil painting in Europe by
    as much as six centuries.

   The paint used contained pigments such as vermilion and lead
    white. These were mixed with many binders, including natural
    resins, gums and oils, probably derived from walnuts or poppies.

   What lead to the discovery of these caves and paintings?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   In the novel Fight Club, Tyler Durden, the protagonist, travels to
    a 15th century installation that is famous as a trigger for attacks
    of acrophobia and requires a certain amount of flexibility to
    access. He urinates at the location thereby marking his first act
    of vandalism.

   What usually happens at this location?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Graffiti refers to writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or
    sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

   So, what is Reverse Graffiti?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Dry Round

   Clockwise

   23 questions

   Infinite Bounce

   10 points for correct answers
   This map resulted from a study by Harvard scientist Edwin G.
    Boring (also famous for the Boring Figure illusion pictured),
    which in turn was a translation of a German study named Zur
    Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes by a scientist named D.P.
    Hanig conducted in the Japanese isles in 1901.

   The paper demonstrated very minute differences in threshold
    detection levels across the region mapped. However, these
    differences were later taken out of context, due to the unclear
    portrayal of data, to arrive at the wrong representation that we
    are all familiar with today.

   What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Terra nullius is a Latin expression which is used in
    international law to describe territory that is unclaimed by
    any state.

   There are currently four categories of terra nullius:
       1. Parts of Antarctica
       2. The international waters and international seabed
       3. Celestial bodies
       4. X

   X please.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Zachary Copfer, a new age American artist invented a form of
    photography in 2012 that combined photographic process with
    his erstwhile profession. The process is very similar to darkroom
    photography, only that the enlarger was replaced by a different
    source, and instead of photographic paper the process used
    another medium. Pictured are some of his creations titled My
    Favorite Scientist Series.

   How did he create these images? OR What was the medium
    used instead of photographic paper?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Palacio Barolo is a landmark office building in Buenos Aires and at
    the time of completion of construction in 1923, it was the tallest
    building in the city and entire South America.

   There are 22 floors, divided into three "sections". The basement
    and ground floor represent the first section, floors 1-14 constitute
    the second, and 15-22 make up the third. The building itself is 100
    meters tall.

   What are the three sections representative of? OR What did the
    Italian architect of the building, Mario Palanti, base its design on?

   Image in the next slide.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   After enrolling at the University of Minnesota in 1933, he soon
    became a member of the varsity wrestling team, reaching the
    Big Ten semifinals. He helped popularize the sport in Minnesota
    high schools by putting on exhibition matches around the state.
    For his contributions, he was inducted into the National
    Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992.

   He cited his time in the Civilian Conservation Corps while
    working with the unemployed and starving, and a lecture on
    organisms of the order Pucciniales as the major turning points
    that prompted him to give up on a promising wrestling career.

   Who?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   After The Decision, the July 2010 television special in which
    LeBron James announced his move from Cleveland Cavaliers
    to Miami Heat, memorabilia and jerseys bearing is name and
    images plummeted in price from $99.99 to $17.41.

   Why?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   This pedestrian bridge linking the Marina Centre with Marina
    South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore was opened in
    2010. It also went on to win the 'World's Best Transport
    Building' award at the World Architecture Festival Awards in
    the same year.

   What is the bridge called? What is the significance of the
    different colored lights that illuminate the bridge at night?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Their development is credited to American psychologist
    Edward Lee Thorndike who created the prototypes in the early
    20th century. However, they were popularized by Frederick J.
    Kelly who used them extensively at the University of Kansas
    and later adapted by Lewis Terman, who is best known as the
    inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test. The first ever large scale
    project that involved them was the Army Alpha, which was
    used to assess the capabilities of World War I military recruits.

   What are we talking about?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Zamenis longissimus, a member of the Colubridae family, is a
    nonvenomous snake native to Europe. Members measure up
    to 2 meters in length and are among the largest European
    snakes. They are very good climbers capable of ascending
    even vertical, branchless tree trunks and have been observed
    at heights of even 15–20 metres in trees.

   These snakes get their common name from the fact that
    they were allowed to crawl around freely on the floors of the
    dormitories of the buildings such as the one pictured.

   By what common name are these snakes known? Image in
    the next slide.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   The inscription on this medal
    refers to one of the factors
    that made a big difference.

   What was this factor called?
    And why was it called so?

   Bigger image in next slide.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories by Primo Levi,
    published in 1975, named after the periodic table of elements.
    The stories are autobiographical accounts of the author's
    experiences during the Fascist regime and afterwards. In 2006,
    the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science
    book ever.

   Each story in the book is named after a chemical element and is
    connected to it in some way.

   Story No.11 deals with Lager. What is the story about and which
    element is used as the title of the story?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Dubbed the World’s Most Famous Filing Cabinet by the
    Smithsonian, this piece of furniture cabinet in the NMAH once
    stood in the LA office of Lewis Fielding, psychoanalyst of one
    Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst.

   The cabinet contained the medical files of Ellsberg with
    information about his mental state which his enemies wanted to
    use against him, but couldn’t extract in a failed attempt. This
    attempt went unnoticed by Ellsberg and Fielding until it was
    revealed during a trial against Ellsberg two years later.

   So, how did this failed attempt ultimately lead to the quoted
    title being bestowed upon the cabinet? Image follows.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Ellsberg: “Had my lawyers and I known about the break-in from the beginning, they
would have had to shut down the illegal plumbers operation, and the Watergate break-in
                     of June 1972 might never have taken place.”

NMAH curator Harry Rubenstein : “Would the plumbers group have been formed if they
hadn’t wanted Ellsberg’s file? Probably not. This humble filing cabinet was the beginning
                          of the end of the Nixon presidency.”
   Fangataufa and Moruroa are two small coral atolls in the
    Tuamotu Archipelago, part of French Polynesia. They have been
    the site of approximately 200 French nuclear tests, starting with
    a test codenamed Operation Canopus, on August 24, 1968. The
    device, suspended from a large hydrogen filled balloon, had a
    2.6 megaton yield and was detonated at an altitude of 1800 feet.
    The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear
    device, after the US, the Soviet Union, the UK and China.

   The test, however, is more notable for the lasting changes in a
    species commonly called Gallina de palo, i.e. “bamboo chicken”
    or “chicken of the tree”, as they are said to taste like chicken.

   What were these changes? Image in the next slide.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   A popular joke about Russian politics, it is an empirical rule of
    the state leaders' succession that has been observed to hold true
    since 1825 starting with Nicholas I who followed his late brother
    Alexander I as the Russian Emperor. It achieved popularity
    during the period of Leonid Brezhnev's leadership and is a
    frequent subject in Russian cartoons and media. In the 1990s, it
    was even joked that Gennady Zyuganov would "inevitably" win
    the 1996 presidential election to replace Boris Yeltsin.

   What are we talking about?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   These are some of the plants that were used in a medicinal
    philosophy named Doctrine of Signatures. What exactly was
    the principle followed by this doctrine?

   Images in the next slide as well.
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Lungwort
       Spleenwort
       Toothwort
St. John’s Wort/Skinwort
   A group of English-speaking female broadcasters were used by
    the Japanese during WW II for propaganda against the allies.
    They were known by a common name Tokyo Rose and were used
    with an intent to break the morale of the allied troops who were
    listening to the broadcast. One Mr. George Putnam was quite
    intrigued by the legend of Tokyo Rose and went great lengths to
    find out their identity. He did this by listening to numerous
    recordings of various Tokyo Roses.

   What prompted Mr. Putnam to set out on this wild goose chase?
    Listen to the audio clip.

   Audio removed.
    Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8w_03695w
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Amytis was the daughter/granddaughter of the Cyaxares, the
    first king of Media. In 585 BC, she was married off to the son of
    King Nabopolassar, in an effort to formalize the alliance
    between the two dynasties.

   Amytis, who had never lived anywhere besides the mountains,
    could not adjust to the flat environs of her husband’s nation
    with very little rain, and soon fell homesick. Her husband, in an
    effort to improve her mood, ordered a lot of stuff to be brought
    from Media.

   What exactly did he do with these items?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Adolf Hitler was a big fan of a 1804 play (based on a 14th century
    legend) and even quoted it in Mein Kampf. He also approved of a
    production of the play in which Hermann Goering's mistress
    Emmy Sonnemann appeared as the wife of the principal
    character. The play became a big hit during the Nazi regime.

   However, following an attempt on his life by a Swiss student
    named Maurice Bavaud, Hitler banned the play.

   A.) Why did he ban it?

   Painting of a part of the story of the play in the next slide.
    B.) What happened prior to the event depicted?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Hitler believed that Maurice Bavaud was inspired by this legend to assassinate him.
   Originally used for the purpose of carrying rice, they could hold
    up to 30 tons of rice over a short distance, which usually took 3
    days. The basic raw material used in their manufacture is jack-
    wood, and not a single nail is used during the construction. The
    whole structure is then coated with a caustic black resin made
    from boiled kernels, to afford them durability.

   Their present day usage is derived from a requirement to keep
    them active, almost all of which were more than 100 years old.

   What are we talking about?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning, among his other
    achievements, competed in the bobsleigh event at the 1928
    Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and finished tenth. He was also the
    Deputy Chairman of the British Olympic Association at the 1948
    Summer Olympics.

   In 1931, while reading The Loving Spirit, he was very impressed
    and went on to marry the author. His wife is today credited with
    an Army tradition that began sometime during the North African
    campaign in 1942. He passed away sometime in 1965 at a
    mansion named Menabilly (pictured in the next slide) which his
    wife had leased and formed the basis of her most famous work.

   Name the wife and the work. What Army tradition are we talking
    about?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Cafe Maravillas is a bar in the Plaza 2 de Mayo region of Madrid,
    specializing in salads, typical Spanish tapas, meat dishes and all
    kinds of appetizers and sandwiches.

   Sometime in 2010, Annie Leibovitz was contracted for a project
    here. Central to the project was something conceived by
    Alexandre de Finesterre , a Spanish Civil War veteran, out of
    boredom while convalescing in a hospital and inspired by table
    tennis. The project, originally thought to be impossible, itself
    was part of the Core Values campaign of a group and was
    taglined as a celebration of three journeys.

   What project?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Initially (i.e. 1913) 10-watt incandescent bulbs illuminated it, but
    over the years, they burned out. Replacing them was labor-
    intensive as workers had to crawl to reach the fittings and screw
    in new bulbs. So, a fiber-optic system was installed in 1997 and
    this in turn gave way to LEDs in 2010.

   Only about 60 (out of 2,500) subjects are illuminated in this
    25,000 foot project that is reversed (the favorite explanation
    being that it is a representation how it would look to God from
    above).

   What are we talking about? Also, what is the reason for a
    prominent void in this representation?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   One of the proposed motives was the thing pictured. Another
    was the belief in reincarnation and possible future resurrection.

   Eight empty items from a work bench in the Chemical Room at
    the Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, were waved around
    the room at around 3:24 a.m. on October 18, 1931, to complete
    the act. One of these eight were gifted away and is today the
    most famous one.

   What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
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   List-It

   20 variables

   2 points for each correct variable.

   Bonus of 10 points for getting all 20.

   Total – 50 points
   Of all the movies that have gone on to win the Academy
    Award for Best Picture, only 20 movies have a title made up of
    a single word.

   Name all.

   P.S. Titles like Ben-Hur don’t count.
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   Dry Round

   Anticlockwise

   23 questions

   Infinite Bounce

   1o points for correct answers
•   This mixed language, composed mostly (80%) of Italian with a
    broad vocabulary drawn from Turkish, French, Greek, Arabic,
    Portuguese and Spanish, was used for communication
    throughout the medieval and early modern Middle East and
    Mediterranean as a commercial and diplomatic language. It was
    also the language used among slaves, Barbary pirates and
    European renegades in pre-colonial North Africa.

•   The usage of the name of this language in modern English,
    thus, stems from its usage by a wide variety of people.

•   Identify the language.
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   This is an American elm (Ulmus americana) in the Tompkins
    Square Park in New York. The tree is significant as the site of
    a October 9, 1966 event which saw people like beat poet
    Allen Ginsberg participating. The event was the first of its
    kind outside the Indian subcontinent and was instrumental
    for pioneering something in the United States.

   By what name is this tree referred to? OR What is the event
    in question?

   Image in the next slide.
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   Zeng Liansong, a citizen from the Zheijang province, was
    consumed by the idea that the Communist Party of China was the
    great savior of the Chinese people. He was particularly impressed
    by the 1949 article “On the People's Democratic Dictatorship”
    written by Mao Zedong, which defined the Chinese people as
    consisting of four social classes. The article went on to describe
    China as belonging to the Chinese people, who were a yellow
    race.

   What did he do to express his patriotism as a true Chinese citizen?
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   There are over 200 Xs on Y, the earliest recorded ones dating
    back to 1922. Most of these Xs today have nicknames and are
    used as landmarks. The most famous X is from 1996 (nicknamed
    “Green Boots”), the worst year of its kind, next to a cave along
    the path to the final objective and gives an accurate assessment
    of the distance involved.

   As per local law, these Xs have to be retrieved. However, if this
    is not possible, alternate arrangements are made using stones.

   What are we talking about?
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   During the Indo-Pak war of 1971, the technical aspect of the
    operations of the Pakistani Air Force was supervised by a retired
    Major General.

   He was supplied with a twin engined Beechcraft plane, to keep
    track of all the equipment that kept appearing from destroyed
    planes. This liaison aircraft, however, was destroyed in a daring
    Indian air raid on the airbase in Rawalpindi by, none other than
    then Lieutenant and later India's Chief of the Naval Staff,
    Admiral Arun Prakash. He described this as a deliberate ploy by
    Indira Gandhi and that it was the Indian way of showing them
    the finger. The General soon vanished and was not be seen in
    Islamabad again until the war was over.

   What, however, is this officer’s primary claim to fame?
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   The first one, named Carrington Event, was observed on Sep 1,
    1859, and is to date the most powerful one recorded. It left
    traces of Nitrates and Beryllium-10 in the Greenland ice which
    has allowed strength comparisons with similar ones over the
    past 150 years. The frequency varies, from several per day when
    during the "active" phase to less than one every week during
    the "quiet" phase, each phase lasting 10-13 years.

   What are we talking about?

   Audio removed.
    Link: http://soundcloud.com/discovermag-1/solar-flare-2-2-13
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   The change came about in the 18th century to represent the
    landscape and more importantly, to signify the association with
    something locally called Seamair bhui that was vital in
    conveying a 5th century message. The scope of this change was
    expanded thanks to a 1798 rebellion.

   What are we talking about?

   The person who conveyed the message is also said to have
    thwarted various attempts to have his 40-day fast broken and
    this is cited as the background of a famous legend. However,
    this theory has been discarded in favor of the most recent Ice
    Age. What legend?
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   McCann Erickson were hired by the London Zoo for a promotional
    poster campaign in 2003. The advertising agency famously based
    their ideas on a project by illustrator Paul Middlewick. Again, in
    April 2008, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) used
    posters of the Seal, Elephant and Whale based on Middlewick’s
    project to raise awareness of seal hunting in Canada, the ivory
    trade and whale hunting respectively.

   How did Paul Middlewick create images of the various animals?
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   The gentleman pictured did a cryptographic analysis of the
    front pages of The New York Times in the 1930s to arrive at a
    conclusion that has remained valid for almost 3 generations. He
    coupled his own intuition with direct observation and had his
    wife and their friends as guinea pigs in his quest. This analysis
    received a much-needed legitimate aid in 1978.

   However, recent changes have necessitated a re-thinking of
    this analysis, with Slate citing a Chinese life force and pizza as
    examples.

   What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
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   It was a creation of Dr. James Fennelly, a self-confessed fan, of
    New York's Adelphi University, to illustrate a paper ("The City of
    _________ as an Expression of the Ordered Hindu Cosmos") that
    he delivered to the American Academy of Religion in 1978.

   The blanked place in its modern sense dates back to the
    Vijayadashami day of 1930, considered an auspicious day to start
    new efforts. It has an enviable historical record, dating to the
    Ramayana days with Lord Rama passing through, while on his
    journey to Lanka. The streets of the place are believed to have
    been touched by Buddha’s feet as well.

   So, what was this creation?
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   Adjustments are made using coins as follows: On top of the
    principal structure is a small stack of old penny coins. Adding a coin
    has the effect of minutely lifting the position of the centre of mass,
    reducing the effective length and hence increasing the rate at which
    the structure moves. Adding or removing a penny will change the
    final output by 0.4 units per day.

   This is also supposedly the origin of the English phrase ‘to put a
    penny on’ meaning to slow something down.

   What is this technique used for? Image in the next slide.
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   A 2006 study by Dr. Doron Nof, a Florida State University prof
    of oceanography suggested that temperatures dropped to -4
    degree Celsius for up to two days once every 30-60 years, in a
    period between 2,500 to 1,500 years ago. This was in stark
    contrast to the odds of such conditions developing in the low-
    latitude region that Dr. Nof had studied (1-in-1000 the last 120
    centuries). The existence of such conditions could create a
    floating patch of ice from the salty springs along the region’s
    western border. This would be hard to spot, especially if rain
    had smoothed the surface of the region under study.

   What was this study trying to explain? Also name the region.
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   This profession had its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution
    and lasted till as late as the 1920s (when the technology that we
    are familiar with today replaced it). Common raw materials used
    were truncheons, bamboo sticks, pea-shooters etc. The
    profession itself was discussed in detail by Charles Dickens in
    Great Expectations.

   Since this profession involved a collision of sorts, a strange
    theory proposed is that it was supposedly adapted into English
    over a period of time to refer to a particular human physiological
    process.

   What profession? What physiological process? Image in the next
    slide.
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   A bonus feature on the extended DVD version of The Lord of
    the Rings: The Return of the King shows a tribute from the stunt
    crew in honor of Viggo Mortensen and Bernard Hill (among
    others), the “two kings” who put in incredible performances in
    the movie.

   The tribute was paid again before the LOTR cast departed for
    the 2002 Oscars ceremony. The moment itself is described ‘as
    precious(sssss!) as Oscar Gold’ in the feature.

   What was this tribute?
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Link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kqn5MQiDY
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   Sometime in the 1940s, the backyard of this building saw the
    formation of a pit over a feet deep. Bamboo poles had to be
    erected around the pit in order to prevent it from further
    increasing in size.

   What was the reason for the formation of the pit?

   Image in the next slide.
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   This three-issue mini-series from DC comics stands outside of
    the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe. In this alternate
    universe, Jonathan and Martha Kent do not discover the
    spaceship outside Smallville carrying baby Kal-El, due to their
    pick-up truck breaking down, and hence there is no Superman.

   The exact nature of the break-down is detailed in the opening
    paragraph. These lines are, apparently, a reference to a late 15th
    century incident, the subject of which is very much in news.

   What are the lines in question? Also, identify the subject.
    Image follows.
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   The most common theory proposed is that it was instituted by
    the upper caste Brahmins to signify their domicile and to set
    them apart from the rest of the population.

   Other reasons proposed include:

       - Maintenance of cool interiors and to fend off mosquitoes
       - Display of human resilience against a bleak backdrop

   However, the actual reason is the usage of copper compounds to
    prevent damage from the termites prevalent in the area.

   What are we talking about?
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   Anabasis is the most famous work of the Greek soldier and
    historian Xenophon. The books is about his experiences while
    accompanying the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek
    mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who wanted to seize
    the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.

   The march (401-399 B.C.) was a failure and the joy of the troops
    on seeing the Euxeinos Pontos from Mount Theches on their
    way back was evident in their shouting out something. The
    shout itself meant that they were at last close to Greek cities.

   What did they shout out? Who, supposedly, used this cry as the
    title of a Booker Prize winning work in the late 1970s?

   Image in the next slide.
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   Rendez-vous Houston: A City in Concert was a live performance by
    French composer Jean Michel Jarre on April 5, 1986, to coincide with the
    release of his album Rendez-Vous. It held the Guinness World Record for
    the largest outdoor "rock concert" in history (1 to 1.5 million in
    attendance) for a brief time.

   One of the events planned for the concert was that Ronald McNair, a
    close friend of Jarre, would play the saxophone from elsewhere during
    the track “Last Rendez-Vous”. However, this did not happen and localite
    (and multiple Grammy nominee) Kirk Whalum had to fill in.

   Where was McNair supposed to play his saxophone from? What record
    would this have given him? Listen to the audio clip.

   Audio removed.
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   She was born in 1881 to a wealthy Jewish banker in Austria.
    Described as a ‘proud, arrogant and outspoken woman…a modern
    woman living in a world of yesterday’, she hosted a renowned
    salon at the beginning of the 20th century, with guests like
    Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig and Jakob
    Wassermann. To escape from her parents’ household, she
    entered into an arranged marriage with a business tycoon
    named Ferdinand at the age of 18.

   She is most famous for something Ferdinand released in 1907,
    originally intended as a present for her parents’ anniversary.
    Something similar was later made in 1912.

   What did he get made? OR Name her.
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   It is a large, barrel-shaped device invented in 1979 by Dr. Al
    Bedard and Carl Ramzy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
    Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory.
    Each device weighed between 250 and 350 lbs., and had to be
    rolled out of the back of a customized pickup truck in about 30
    seconds, using metal wheel ramps and then placed directly in the
    path of a tornado. When absorbed by the tornado, the device
    could give valuable information about its structure.

   The device was also the inspiration for similar instrument
    packages used in the 1996 movie Twister.

   What is this device called? And by what name is the instrument in
    Twister referred to? Images in the next slide.
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   One cylinder of LPG used to take around 1.5 days to exhaust
    itself. Also, there were severe space constraints of stocking the
    cylinders. So, a 6 lakh project for a pipeline-fed switch-over to
    PNG was sanctioned on December 14, 2005 and Indraprastha
    Gas Limited (IGL) was asked to complete it on priority. PNG
    was chosen because it was 20% cheaper, safer, and a more
    reliable source. The agency went on to lay a 500-metre pipeline
    to complete the task.

   What is all this about?
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   “Perpetual Repercussion” is an art installation that went on to win
    multiple lighting awards in 2009.

   It runs the length of the flat roof and front face a building to
    ensure that it is identifiable even from a great distance. A
    brainchild of prominent artist Dyveke Sanne, the system ensures
    that the building shines in light summer nights as well as dark
    winter days. Highly reflective stainless steel, mirrors, and prisms
    together act as a beacon, reflecting light in the summer months,
    while in the winter, a network of 200 fibre-optic cables gives the
    piece a muted greenish-turquoise and white light.

   Which building would you find this artwork on?
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   Theme Round
   Closed theme, non-exhaustive
   10 questions
   5 points for individual answers
   Points for the theme
        1-2 - +25
        3-4 - +20
        5-6 - +15
        7-8 - +10
        9-10 - +5
   Uniform negative of minus 5 throughout for wrong attempts at
    the theme. Unlimited attempts at the theme at any point.
   “Got me a movie, I want you to know
     Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know
    Girlie so groovy, I want you to know
    Don't know about you, but I am ____ _______ ____________
    Wanna grow up to be, be a debaser, debaser.”

   The title and lyrics of this song is a reference to a movie X
    and the fact that X debased morality and standards of art, as
    per the band.

   Name the band and identify X. Listen to the audio clip.

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   Both these images that appeared during Euro 2012 are
    references to X, who has been ranked three times by Forbes
    magazine among the most powerful women in the world –
    3rd in 2005, 17th in 2008 and 47th in 2009.

   Who is X?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
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   It was conceived at the end of WW II, with the aim of ‘providing a
    platform for the flowering of the human spirit.’

   Named in 1948 by Scottish playwright-journalist Scott Kemp, it
    is today the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 edition
    spanning 25 days including 42,096 performances of 2,695 shows
    in 279 venues. It has spawned many notable original shows and
    helped establish the careers of many writers and performers,
    like Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh
    Laurie.

   Just identify.
   This 1991 pre-season NHL game (first ever official outdoor
    game) between the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles
    Kings took place at a location where the 6 main structures are
    named Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius, and
    Forum.

   Which location? What is the name of the main entertainment
    venue at this location?

   Image in the next slide.
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   Fort Wood is a disused army post named after Eleazer D Wood,
    a hero of the War of 1812. Abandoned after the early 19th
    century, it has been used as a recruiting station during the Civil
    War and also as a POW camp.

   The only major addition to Fort Wood over the years has been a
    creation that used a metalworking technique called Repousse,
    wherein a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the
    reverse side to create a design on the opposite side. This
    technique made the addition very light for its volume with the
    skin thickness less than 0.1 inch.

   Just identify this addition.
   X is one of the commonest emblems used by freemasons to
    represent industry, perseverance, diligence and co-operation.
    Various masonic textbooks portray X as symbolic of
    cathedrals and their construction. The term X was also used in
    place of the current term Lodge by early freemasons. For this
    reason, when a dissention happens in a Lodge, the going off
    and forming another Lodge is called Y.

   What are X and Y?
   These rivers form when a threshold level of sediment load or
    slope is reached. There is a relative lack of vegetation
    combined with heavy sediment deposition at high flows and
    re-erosion at low flows, resulting multiple small, shallow
    channels that divide and recombine numerous times.

   What are such rivers called?

   Image in the next slide.
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   The Thai Airways logo incorporates elements of traditional Thai
    imagery, including the colours and image of a flower genus that
    is popular in Thailand. The various other aspects of the airline,
    including the lounges, spas and frequent flyer programs of the
    airline are also named after this flower.

   The particular flower species represented in the logo (and
    presented to female passengers) is nicknamed after a 18th
    century personality who is associated with the colour
    pink/purple (which was the standard fashion for the person’s
    porcelain business).

   Which flower? Also name the personality. Images follow.
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   14 collections of over 50,000 ‘excitable units’ were analyzed for
    this study (by researchers at the Eotvos Lorand University in
    Hungary) that was published in a 2002 edition of The Nature.

   Each unit, once activated, was found to follow the same set of
    internal rules to pass through the active and refractory phases
    before returning to its original resting/excitable state.

   The subject of the study, about 6-12 m wide, was found to move
    predominantly clockwise with a speed of 12 m/s, expanding over
    a period of time to acquire a stable, near-linear shape.

   Identify the subject.
   This movie features Henry Fonda as a supporting character
    named Watson. In a pivotal scene, the hero accidentally spills
    acid onto his lap and shouts in pain and asks Watson to
    immediately come to his aid.

   This scene is followed by the hero breaking into a particular
    Native American dance, like he always used to on getting
    excited. This was because he was awarded the title of Honorary
    Chief in 1870 by the tribe in question for his work in translating
    their unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols.

   Whose life is the movie based on? Which tribe? Image follows.
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   “Got me a movie, I want you to know
     Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know
    Girlie so groovy, I want you to know
    Don't know about you, but I am ____ _______ ____________
    Wanna grow up to be, be a debaser, debaser.”

   The title and lyrics of this song is a reference to a movie X
    and the fact that X debased morality and standards of art, as
    per the band.

   Name the band and identify X. Listen to the audio clip.

   Audio removed.
    Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyS9JwtFoQ
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   Both these images that appeared during Euro 2012 are
    references to X, who has been ranked three times by Forbes
    magazine among the most powerful women in the world –
    3rd in 2005, 17th in 2008 and 47th in 2009.

   Who is X?

   Images in the next 2 slides.
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   It was conceived at the end of WW II, with the aim of ‘providing a
    platform for the flowering of the human spirit.’

   Named in 1948 by Scottish playwright-journalist Scott Kemp, it
    is today the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 edition
    spanning 25 days including 42,096 performances of 2,695 shows
    in 279 venues. It has spawned many notable original shows and
    helped establish the careers of many writers and performers,
    like Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh
    Laurie.

   Just identify.
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   This 1991 pre-season NHL game (first ever official outdoor
    game) between the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles
    Kings took place at a location where the 6 main structures are
    named Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius, and
    Forum.

   Which location? What is the name of the main entertainment
    venue at this location?

   Image in the next slide.
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   Fort Wood is a disused army post named after Eleazer D Wood,
    a hero of the War of 1812. Abandoned after the early 19th
    century, it has been used as a recruiting station during the Civil
    War and also as a POW camp.

   The only major addition to Fort Wood over the years has been a
    creation that used a metalworking technique called Repousse,
    wherein a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the
    reverse side to create a design on the opposite side. This
    technique made the addition very light for its volume with the
    skin thickness less than 0.1 inch.

   Just identify this addition.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   X is one of the commonest emblems used by freemasons to
    represent industry, perseverance, diligence and co-operation.
    Various masonic textbooks portray X as symbolic of
    cathedrals and their construction. The term X was also used in
    place of the current term Lodge by early freemasons. For this
    reason, when a dissention happens in a Lodge, the going off
    and forming another Lodge is called Y.

   What are X and Y?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   These rivers form when a threshold level of sediment load or
    slope is reached. There is a relative lack of vegetation
    combined with heavy sediment deposition at high flows and
    re-erosion at low flows, resulting multiple small, shallow
    channels that divide and recombine numerous times.

   What are such rivers called?

   Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   The Thai Airways logo incorporates elements of traditional Thai
    imagery, including the colours and image of a flower genus that
    is popular in Thailand. The various other aspects of the airline,
    including the lounges, spas and frequent flyer programs of the
    airline are also named after this flower.

   The particular flower species represented in the logo (and
    presented to female passengers) is nicknamed after a 18th
    century personality who is associated with the colour
    pink/purple (which was the standard fashion for the person’s
    porcelain business).

   Which flower? Also name the personality. Images follow.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   14 collections of over 50,000 ‘excitable units’ were analyzed for
    this study (by researchers at the Eotvos Lorand University in
    Hungary) that was published in a 2002 edition of The Nature.

   Each unit, once activated, was found to follow the same set of
    internal rules to pass through the active and refractory phases
    before returning to its original resting/excitable state.

   The subject of the study, about 6-12 m wide, was found to move
    predominantly clockwise with a speed of 12 m/s, expanding over
    a period of time to acquire a stable, near-linear shape.

   Identify the subject.
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   This movie features Henry Fonda as a supporting character
    named Watson. In a pivotal scene, the hero accidentally spills
    acid onto his lap and shouts in pain and asks Watson to
    immediately come to his aid.

   This scene is followed by the hero breaking into a particular
    Native American dance, like he always used to on getting
    excited. This was because he was awarded the title of Honorary
    Chief in 1870 by the tribe in question for his work in translating
    their unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols.

   Whose life is the movie based on? Which tribe? Image follows.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Pixie
   Yulia Tymoshenko
   Fringe
   Caesar
   Statue of Liberty
   Beehive
   Braid
   Madame de Pompadour
   Wave
   Mohawk
Hairstyles
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
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   Differential Scoring

   8 questions

   Point scheme

       1-3 teams - +20
       4-6 teams - +15
       7-8 teams - +10

   Minus 10 for wrong answers. One attempt per question.
   When Niels Bohr was awarded the Highest Civil Honor in
    Denmark, the Order of the Elephant, in 1947, he was asked to
    create a family coat of arms/crest as per custom.

   Staying true to his motto ‘contraria sunt complementa’, he
    chose something that supposedly represented two incoming
    colliding heavy ions with quarks in the colliding nuclei.

   So, what did Bohr choose as his crest?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   In the musical Evita, the song “The art of the possible” depicts
    Juan Peron and a group of officers indulging in a contest,
    which Peron wins by eliminating the other officers one by one.
    This concept was included to symbolize Peron’s rise to power.

   What contest?
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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCPYWVYRZw
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   It started in the late 1950s as a nonfiction article about the
    ecosystem of the place pictured, with the Department of
    Agriculture using Hudsonia (Poverty grass) to stabilize it. The
    author of the article described the problem in the ecosystem
    as “every bit as devastating as a tidal wave …they've even
    caused deaths.”

   What?

   Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   This is an infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope
    showing a long tendril of dust and gas that appears dark, is 300
    light-years long and 1-2 light-years wide. It contains about
    100,000 suns’ worth of material and has been dubbed the ‘First
    Bone of the Milky Way’.

   This piece of galactic skeleton was named (by the scientists at
    the Boston University who discovered it) X, that supposedly is
    the descendant of a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs, an order
    of Mesozoic marine reptiles.

   Identify X. Image in the next slide.
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Ambe-Babula is a tiny tribal hamlet just off the Bombay-Agra
    highway in the Nashik district.

   The main source of income for the villagers is collection and
    sale of scrap with copper fetching Rs 80/kg, Brass Rs 60,
    Aluminium Rs 30, and Iron Rs 5. The villagers trek 5-10 km
    every morning, and wait from 8 am to 3 pm collect the scrap
    from a 25,000-acre area, usually weighing 10-25 kg and up to
    10 feet long. The whole process has been dubbed by the
    media as the rural version of catches win matches.

   So, what exactly is the source of all this scrap?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   The first plans were mooted during the reign of Florestan I, but
    bore fruit only during the rule of Charles III. The plans were
    actually a result of the 1840s revolt by the towns of Menton and
    Roquebrune, that crippled finances.

   The plans were implemented by two gentlemen named Francois
    and Louis Blanc who petitioned Charles III to rename a depressed
    seaside area known as “Les Spelegures” (Den of Thieves) after the
    king himself. Their venture also profited heavily from the newly
    established railroad system. Soon enough, the region finally
    recovered from the previous half century of economic slump.

   What was this venture? OR What did this venture pioneer?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   Initially, i.e. circa 1986, hands could be used. However, when this
    arrangement failed, a mounted infrared system was developed,
    which detected movement in cheek muscles. The most integral
    part of this mechanism is a grey box in the office of one Mr Sam
    Blackburn, that contains the only copy of the final desired
    output, which he is trying to reverse-engineer as the company
    that made them has gone bankrupt. But this system is failing
    gradually as well, to limit the output to one unit per minute.
    Hence, eye-tracking systems and brain scanning are being
    considered as future modalities.

   What are we talking about?
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune
   It dates back to his playing days with Gloucestershire, for whom
    he scored a hundred against Oxford University on debut.

   It, however, entered popular conscience in the 2nd Test between
    England vs. Australia at Edgbaston, in 1985. He had this to say
    about it: “Someone had written in to dear old Brian Johnston.
    There was a titter in the crowd. I thought there must be a streaker
    on the field but it was Brian telling the world - and the spectators
    were listening on their radios. I've been lumbered with it ever
    since.”

   What are we talking about?
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Finals - The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 at AFMC Pune

  • 1. The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Open Quiz 2013 Researched and conducted for AFMC by: Major Chandrakant Nair
  • 2. 6 Rounds  Round 1 – Write Brothers – 10 questions Round 2 – Clockwise – 23 questions Round 3 – List-It Round 4 – Anticlockwise – 23 questions Round 5 – Theme – 10 questions Round 6 – Differential Scoring – 8 questions  74 questions + List-It in the finals  So, a total of 111 (37+74) questions in the quiz
  • 4. The Guinea Pig Roger Ebert
  • 5. Protest, brothers  Written Round  Topic – Protests  10 questions  5 points for every correct answer  Bonus of 10 for getting all 10 correct  Total – 60 points
  • 6. Stills from a function organized at the Arif Nagar Stadium on July 26, 2012. The opening ceremony featured performances highlighting the many famines that happened during the British rule in India, the mass hangings following the First battle for Indian independence in 1857 and the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, among others.  What was this event called?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 9. This was the world’s largest open-air swimming pool from 1958- 95.  In 1995, the pool gave way to the reconstructed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (that was demolished in 1930 to harvest 20 tons of gold in the dome). The original church, in 1882, saw the debut of a musical composition that had a repetitive fragment of the La Marseillaise, and this usage is considered an error.  Identify the piece. Why is the usage of the French National Anthem in the piece thought to be wrong? Why was the Cathedral in news in early 2012? Image in the next slide.
  • 11. Rev. James Bevel, Strategist and Architect of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, organized a march by hundreds of school kids on 2-5 May, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in the city. Many students left their schools in order to be arrested, set free, only to get arrested again the next day. However, these demonstrations had to be stopped due to the usage of fire hoses and police dogs to ward of the protesters.  What name was given to these demonstrations?  Image in the next slide.
  • 13. What is happening in this video? Why are many people not getting up and applauding? Video Removed Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YziNNCZeNs (From 1:25 to 2:10)
  • 14. “If it could be like that for me, a foreigner, a visitor, imagine what it must be like for the Palestinians, for the underclass, for the passbook carriers. I knew then that my conscience would not allow me to walk away from that wall, from the fate of the Palestinians I met: people whose lives are crushed daily by Israel's occupation. In solidarity, and somewhat impotently, I wrote on their wall that day: <BLANKED OUT>.”  Speaking is someone who visited the Israeli wall around the West Bank in 2006 and later took part in an event that was moved to Neve Shalom (from Tel Aviv), the largest ever of its kind in Israel.  Who? What did he write?
  • 15. A is the only person to do it before (and during the fight for) Independence. B is the most famous example after Independence.  What? Also, identify both people. Images in the next slide.
  • 17. They were brand new and tight and hence were removed and kept aside. An angry response resulted in the watch falling off. When the watch was being retrieved, one of the removed items was sighted again, and was promptly picked up to be used rhythmically, ‘like a metronome’ in the act that made it famous.  This is the theory proposed by a lady named Nina, about a response directed at a “jerk, stooge and lackey of imperialism”. One of the arguments against this theory, however, was that large tummy that would not have let all this happen.  What half-a-century old response are we talking about?
  • 18. Sometime in 2008, a group of scientists from Japan, France and US announced the discovery of around 50 caves along the old Silk Route. These caves were filled with paintings dating back to the 5th-9th centuries, and were confirmed to be the world's oldest-known oil paintings, predating oil painting in Europe by as much as six centuries.  The paint used contained pigments such as vermilion and lead white. These were mixed with many binders, including natural resins, gums and oils, probably derived from walnuts or poppies.  What lead to the discovery of these caves and paintings?
  • 19. In the novel Fight Club, Tyler Durden, the protagonist, travels to a 15th century installation that is famous as a trigger for attacks of acrophobia and requires a certain amount of flexibility to access. He urinates at the location thereby marking his first act of vandalism.  What usually happens at this location?
  • 20. Graffiti refers to writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.  So, what is Reverse Graffiti?
  • 22. Stills from a function organized at the Arif Nagar Stadium on July 26, 2012. The opening ceremony featured performances highlighting the many famines that happened during the British rule in India, the mass hangings following the First battle for Indian independence in 1857 and the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, among others.  What was this event called?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 26. This was the world’s largest open-air swimming pool from 1958-95.  In 1995, the pool gave way to the reconstructed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (that was demolished in 1930 to harvest the 20 tons of gold in the dome). The original church, in 1882, saw the debut of a musical composition that had a repetitive fragment of the La Marseillaise, and this usage is considered an error.  Identify the piece. Why is the usage of the French National Anthem in the piece thought to be wrong? Why was the Cathedral in news in early 2012? Image in the next slide.
  • 29. Rev. James Bevel, Strategist and Architect of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, organized a march by hundreds of school kids on 2-5 May, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. The purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in the city. Many students left their schools in order to be arrested, set free, only to get arrested again the next day. However, these demonstrations had to be stopped due to the usage of fire hoses and police dogs to ward of the protesters.  What name was given to these demonstrations?  Image in the next slide.
  • 32. What is happening in this video? Why are many people not getting up and applauding? Video Removed Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YziNNCZeNs (From 1:25 to 2:10)
  • 34. “If it could be like that for me, a foreigner, a visitor, imagine what it must be like for the Palestinians, for the underclass, for the passbook carriers. I knew then that my conscience would not allow me to walk away from that wall, from the fate of the Palestinians I met: people whose lives are crushed daily by Israel's occupation. In solidarity, and somewhat impotently, I wrote on their wall that day: <BLANKED OUT>.”  Speaking is someone who visited the Israeli wall around the West Bank in 2006 and later took part in an event that was moved to Neve Shalom (from Tel Aviv), the largest ever of its kind in Israel.  Who? What did he write?
  • 36. A is the only person to do it before (and during the fight for) Independence. B is the most famous example after Independence.  What? Also, identify both people. Images in the next slide.
  • 39. They were brand new and tight and hence were removed and kept aside. An angry response resulted in the watch falling off. When the watch was being retrieved, one of the removed items was sighted again, and was promptly picked up to be used rhythmically, ‘like a metronome’ in the act that made it famous.  This is the theory proposed by a lady named Nina, about a response directed at a “jerk, stooge and lackey of imperialism”. One of the arguments against this theory, however, was that large tummy that would not have let all this happen.  What half-a-century old response are we talking about?
  • 41. Sometime in 2008, a group of scientists from Japan, France and US announced the discovery of around 50 caves along the old Silk Route. These caves were filled with paintings dating back to the 5th-9th centuries, and were confirmed to be the world's oldest-known oil paintings, predating oil painting in Europe by as much as six centuries.  The paint used contained pigments such as vermilion and lead white. These were mixed with many binders, including natural resins, gums and oils, probably derived from walnuts or poppies.  What lead to the discovery of these caves and paintings?
  • 43. In the novel Fight Club, Tyler Durden, the protagonist, travels to a 15th century installation that is famous as a trigger for attacks of acrophobia and requires a certain amount of flexibility to access. He urinates at the location thereby marking his first act of vandalism.  What usually happens at this location?
  • 45. Graffiti refers to writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.  So, what is Reverse Graffiti?
  • 47. Dry Round  Clockwise  23 questions  Infinite Bounce  10 points for correct answers
  • 48. This map resulted from a study by Harvard scientist Edwin G. Boring (also famous for the Boring Figure illusion pictured), which in turn was a translation of a German study named Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes by a scientist named D.P. Hanig conducted in the Japanese isles in 1901.  The paper demonstrated very minute differences in threshold detection levels across the region mapped. However, these differences were later taken out of context, due to the unclear portrayal of data, to arrive at the wrong representation that we are all familiar with today.  What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
  • 52. Terra nullius is a Latin expression which is used in international law to describe territory that is unclaimed by any state.  There are currently four categories of terra nullius: 1. Parts of Antarctica 2. The international waters and international seabed 3. Celestial bodies 4. X  X please.
  • 55. Zachary Copfer, a new age American artist invented a form of photography in 2012 that combined photographic process with his erstwhile profession. The process is very similar to darkroom photography, only that the enlarger was replaced by a different source, and instead of photographic paper the process used another medium. Pictured are some of his creations titled My Favorite Scientist Series.  How did he create these images? OR What was the medium used instead of photographic paper?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 60. Palacio Barolo is a landmark office building in Buenos Aires and at the time of completion of construction in 1923, it was the tallest building in the city and entire South America.  There are 22 floors, divided into three "sections". The basement and ground floor represent the first section, floors 1-14 constitute the second, and 15-22 make up the third. The building itself is 100 meters tall.  What are the three sections representative of? OR What did the Italian architect of the building, Mario Palanti, base its design on?  Image in the next slide.
  • 64. After enrolling at the University of Minnesota in 1933, he soon became a member of the varsity wrestling team, reaching the Big Ten semifinals. He helped popularize the sport in Minnesota high schools by putting on exhibition matches around the state. For his contributions, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992.  He cited his time in the Civilian Conservation Corps while working with the unemployed and starving, and a lecture on organisms of the order Pucciniales as the major turning points that prompted him to give up on a promising wrestling career.  Who?
  • 67. After The Decision, the July 2010 television special in which LeBron James announced his move from Cleveland Cavaliers to Miami Heat, memorabilia and jerseys bearing is name and images plummeted in price from $99.99 to $17.41.  Why?
  • 70. This pedestrian bridge linking the Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore was opened in 2010. It also went on to win the 'World's Best Transport Building' award at the World Architecture Festival Awards in the same year.  What is the bridge called? What is the significance of the different colored lights that illuminate the bridge at night?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 75. Their development is credited to American psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike who created the prototypes in the early 20th century. However, they were popularized by Frederick J. Kelly who used them extensively at the University of Kansas and later adapted by Lewis Terman, who is best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test. The first ever large scale project that involved them was the Army Alpha, which was used to assess the capabilities of World War I military recruits.  What are we talking about?
  • 78. Zamenis longissimus, a member of the Colubridae family, is a nonvenomous snake native to Europe. Members measure up to 2 meters in length and are among the largest European snakes. They are very good climbers capable of ascending even vertical, branchless tree trunks and have been observed at heights of even 15–20 metres in trees.  These snakes get their common name from the fact that they were allowed to crawl around freely on the floors of the dormitories of the buildings such as the one pictured.  By what common name are these snakes known? Image in the next slide.
  • 82. The inscription on this medal refers to one of the factors that made a big difference.  What was this factor called? And why was it called so?  Bigger image in next slide.
  • 87. The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories by Primo Levi, published in 1975, named after the periodic table of elements. The stories are autobiographical accounts of the author's experiences during the Fascist regime and afterwards. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever.  Each story in the book is named after a chemical element and is connected to it in some way.  Story No.11 deals with Lager. What is the story about and which element is used as the title of the story?
  • 90. Dubbed the World’s Most Famous Filing Cabinet by the Smithsonian, this piece of furniture cabinet in the NMAH once stood in the LA office of Lewis Fielding, psychoanalyst of one Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst.  The cabinet contained the medical files of Ellsberg with information about his mental state which his enemies wanted to use against him, but couldn’t extract in a failed attempt. This attempt went unnoticed by Ellsberg and Fielding until it was revealed during a trial against Ellsberg two years later.  So, how did this failed attempt ultimately lead to the quoted title being bestowed upon the cabinet? Image follows.
  • 93. Ellsberg: “Had my lawyers and I known about the break-in from the beginning, they would have had to shut down the illegal plumbers operation, and the Watergate break-in of June 1972 might never have taken place.” NMAH curator Harry Rubenstein : “Would the plumbers group have been formed if they hadn’t wanted Ellsberg’s file? Probably not. This humble filing cabinet was the beginning of the end of the Nixon presidency.”
  • 94. Fangataufa and Moruroa are two small coral atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago, part of French Polynesia. They have been the site of approximately 200 French nuclear tests, starting with a test codenamed Operation Canopus, on August 24, 1968. The device, suspended from a large hydrogen filled balloon, had a 2.6 megaton yield and was detonated at an altitude of 1800 feet. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device, after the US, the Soviet Union, the UK and China.  The test, however, is more notable for the lasting changes in a species commonly called Gallina de palo, i.e. “bamboo chicken” or “chicken of the tree”, as they are said to taste like chicken.  What were these changes? Image in the next slide.
  • 99. A popular joke about Russian politics, it is an empirical rule of the state leaders' succession that has been observed to hold true since 1825 starting with Nicholas I who followed his late brother Alexander I as the Russian Emperor. It achieved popularity during the period of Leonid Brezhnev's leadership and is a frequent subject in Russian cartoons and media. In the 1990s, it was even joked that Gennady Zyuganov would "inevitably" win the 1996 presidential election to replace Boris Yeltsin.  What are we talking about?
  • 102. These are some of the plants that were used in a medicinal philosophy named Doctrine of Signatures. What exactly was the principle followed by this doctrine?  Images in the next slide as well.
  • 105. Lungwort Spleenwort Toothwort St. John’s Wort/Skinwort
  • 106. A group of English-speaking female broadcasters were used by the Japanese during WW II for propaganda against the allies. They were known by a common name Tokyo Rose and were used with an intent to break the morale of the allied troops who were listening to the broadcast. One Mr. George Putnam was quite intrigued by the legend of Tokyo Rose and went great lengths to find out their identity. He did this by listening to numerous recordings of various Tokyo Roses.  What prompted Mr. Putnam to set out on this wild goose chase? Listen to the audio clip.  Audio removed. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8w_03695w
  • 109. Amytis was the daughter/granddaughter of the Cyaxares, the first king of Media. In 585 BC, she was married off to the son of King Nabopolassar, in an effort to formalize the alliance between the two dynasties.  Amytis, who had never lived anywhere besides the mountains, could not adjust to the flat environs of her husband’s nation with very little rain, and soon fell homesick. Her husband, in an effort to improve her mood, ordered a lot of stuff to be brought from Media.  What exactly did he do with these items?
  • 112. Adolf Hitler was a big fan of a 1804 play (based on a 14th century legend) and even quoted it in Mein Kampf. He also approved of a production of the play in which Hermann Goering's mistress Emmy Sonnemann appeared as the wife of the principal character. The play became a big hit during the Nazi regime.  However, following an attempt on his life by a Swiss student named Maurice Bavaud, Hitler banned the play.  A.) Why did he ban it?  Painting of a part of the story of the play in the next slide. B.) What happened prior to the event depicted?
  • 115. Hitler believed that Maurice Bavaud was inspired by this legend to assassinate him.
  • 116. Originally used for the purpose of carrying rice, they could hold up to 30 tons of rice over a short distance, which usually took 3 days. The basic raw material used in their manufacture is jack- wood, and not a single nail is used during the construction. The whole structure is then coated with a caustic black resin made from boiled kernels, to afford them durability.  Their present day usage is derived from a requirement to keep them active, almost all of which were more than 100 years old.  What are we talking about?
  • 119. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning, among his other achievements, competed in the bobsleigh event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and finished tenth. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the British Olympic Association at the 1948 Summer Olympics.  In 1931, while reading The Loving Spirit, he was very impressed and went on to marry the author. His wife is today credited with an Army tradition that began sometime during the North African campaign in 1942. He passed away sometime in 1965 at a mansion named Menabilly (pictured in the next slide) which his wife had leased and formed the basis of her most famous work.  Name the wife and the work. What Army tradition are we talking about?
  • 123. Cafe Maravillas is a bar in the Plaza 2 de Mayo region of Madrid, specializing in salads, typical Spanish tapas, meat dishes and all kinds of appetizers and sandwiches.  Sometime in 2010, Annie Leibovitz was contracted for a project here. Central to the project was something conceived by Alexandre de Finesterre , a Spanish Civil War veteran, out of boredom while convalescing in a hospital and inspired by table tennis. The project, originally thought to be impossible, itself was part of the Core Values campaign of a group and was taglined as a celebration of three journeys.  What project?
  • 126. Initially (i.e. 1913) 10-watt incandescent bulbs illuminated it, but over the years, they burned out. Replacing them was labor- intensive as workers had to crawl to reach the fittings and screw in new bulbs. So, a fiber-optic system was installed in 1997 and this in turn gave way to LEDs in 2010.  Only about 60 (out of 2,500) subjects are illuminated in this 25,000 foot project that is reversed (the favorite explanation being that it is a representation how it would look to God from above).  What are we talking about? Also, what is the reason for a prominent void in this representation?
  • 130. One of the proposed motives was the thing pictured. Another was the belief in reincarnation and possible future resurrection.  Eight empty items from a work bench in the Chemical Room at the Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, were waved around the room at around 3:24 a.m. on October 18, 1931, to complete the act. One of these eight were gifted away and is today the most famous one.  What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
  • 134. List-It  20 variables  2 points for each correct variable.  Bonus of 10 points for getting all 20.  Total – 50 points
  • 135. Of all the movies that have gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, only 20 movies have a title made up of a single word.  Name all.  P.S. Titles like Ben-Hur don’t count.
  • 157. Dry Round  Anticlockwise  23 questions  Infinite Bounce  1o points for correct answers
  • 158. This mixed language, composed mostly (80%) of Italian with a broad vocabulary drawn from Turkish, French, Greek, Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish, was used for communication throughout the medieval and early modern Middle East and Mediterranean as a commercial and diplomatic language. It was also the language used among slaves, Barbary pirates and European renegades in pre-colonial North Africa. • The usage of the name of this language in modern English, thus, stems from its usage by a wide variety of people. • Identify the language.
  • 161. This is an American elm (Ulmus americana) in the Tompkins Square Park in New York. The tree is significant as the site of a October 9, 1966 event which saw people like beat poet Allen Ginsberg participating. The event was the first of its kind outside the Indian subcontinent and was instrumental for pioneering something in the United States.  By what name is this tree referred to? OR What is the event in question?  Image in the next slide.
  • 165. Zeng Liansong, a citizen from the Zheijang province, was consumed by the idea that the Communist Party of China was the great savior of the Chinese people. He was particularly impressed by the 1949 article “On the People's Democratic Dictatorship” written by Mao Zedong, which defined the Chinese people as consisting of four social classes. The article went on to describe China as belonging to the Chinese people, who were a yellow race.  What did he do to express his patriotism as a true Chinese citizen?
  • 168. There are over 200 Xs on Y, the earliest recorded ones dating back to 1922. Most of these Xs today have nicknames and are used as landmarks. The most famous X is from 1996 (nicknamed “Green Boots”), the worst year of its kind, next to a cave along the path to the final objective and gives an accurate assessment of the distance involved.  As per local law, these Xs have to be retrieved. However, if this is not possible, alternate arrangements are made using stones.  What are we talking about?
  • 171. During the Indo-Pak war of 1971, the technical aspect of the operations of the Pakistani Air Force was supervised by a retired Major General.  He was supplied with a twin engined Beechcraft plane, to keep track of all the equipment that kept appearing from destroyed planes. This liaison aircraft, however, was destroyed in a daring Indian air raid on the airbase in Rawalpindi by, none other than then Lieutenant and later India's Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Arun Prakash. He described this as a deliberate ploy by Indira Gandhi and that it was the Indian way of showing them the finger. The General soon vanished and was not be seen in Islamabad again until the war was over.  What, however, is this officer’s primary claim to fame?
  • 174. The first one, named Carrington Event, was observed on Sep 1, 1859, and is to date the most powerful one recorded. It left traces of Nitrates and Beryllium-10 in the Greenland ice which has allowed strength comparisons with similar ones over the past 150 years. The frequency varies, from several per day when during the "active" phase to less than one every week during the "quiet" phase, each phase lasting 10-13 years.  What are we talking about?  Audio removed. Link: http://soundcloud.com/discovermag-1/solar-flare-2-2-13
  • 177. The change came about in the 18th century to represent the landscape and more importantly, to signify the association with something locally called Seamair bhui that was vital in conveying a 5th century message. The scope of this change was expanded thanks to a 1798 rebellion.  What are we talking about?  The person who conveyed the message is also said to have thwarted various attempts to have his 40-day fast broken and this is cited as the background of a famous legend. However, this theory has been discarded in favor of the most recent Ice Age. What legend?
  • 180. McCann Erickson were hired by the London Zoo for a promotional poster campaign in 2003. The advertising agency famously based their ideas on a project by illustrator Paul Middlewick. Again, in April 2008, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) used posters of the Seal, Elephant and Whale based on Middlewick’s project to raise awareness of seal hunting in Canada, the ivory trade and whale hunting respectively.  How did Paul Middlewick create images of the various animals?
  • 183. The gentleman pictured did a cryptographic analysis of the front pages of The New York Times in the 1930s to arrive at a conclusion that has remained valid for almost 3 generations. He coupled his own intuition with direct observation and had his wife and their friends as guinea pigs in his quest. This analysis received a much-needed legitimate aid in 1978.  However, recent changes have necessitated a re-thinking of this analysis, with Slate citing a Chinese life force and pizza as examples.  What are we talking about? Image in the next slide.
  • 187. It was a creation of Dr. James Fennelly, a self-confessed fan, of New York's Adelphi University, to illustrate a paper ("The City of _________ as an Expression of the Ordered Hindu Cosmos") that he delivered to the American Academy of Religion in 1978.  The blanked place in its modern sense dates back to the Vijayadashami day of 1930, considered an auspicious day to start new efforts. It has an enviable historical record, dating to the Ramayana days with Lord Rama passing through, while on his journey to Lanka. The streets of the place are believed to have been touched by Buddha’s feet as well.  So, what was this creation?
  • 190. Adjustments are made using coins as follows: On top of the principal structure is a small stack of old penny coins. Adding a coin has the effect of minutely lifting the position of the centre of mass, reducing the effective length and hence increasing the rate at which the structure moves. Adding or removing a penny will change the final output by 0.4 units per day.  This is also supposedly the origin of the English phrase ‘to put a penny on’ meaning to slow something down.  What is this technique used for? Image in the next slide.
  • 194. A 2006 study by Dr. Doron Nof, a Florida State University prof of oceanography suggested that temperatures dropped to -4 degree Celsius for up to two days once every 30-60 years, in a period between 2,500 to 1,500 years ago. This was in stark contrast to the odds of such conditions developing in the low- latitude region that Dr. Nof had studied (1-in-1000 the last 120 centuries). The existence of such conditions could create a floating patch of ice from the salty springs along the region’s western border. This would be hard to spot, especially if rain had smoothed the surface of the region under study.  What was this study trying to explain? Also name the region.
  • 197. This profession had its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution and lasted till as late as the 1920s (when the technology that we are familiar with today replaced it). Common raw materials used were truncheons, bamboo sticks, pea-shooters etc. The profession itself was discussed in detail by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations.  Since this profession involved a collision of sorts, a strange theory proposed is that it was supposedly adapted into English over a period of time to refer to a particular human physiological process.  What profession? What physiological process? Image in the next slide.
  • 201. A bonus feature on the extended DVD version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows a tribute from the stunt crew in honor of Viggo Mortensen and Bernard Hill (among others), the “two kings” who put in incredible performances in the movie.  The tribute was paid again before the LOTR cast departed for the 2002 Oscars ceremony. The moment itself is described ‘as precious(sssss!) as Oscar Gold’ in the feature.  What was this tribute?
  • 203. Videos removed Link 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPr2fql-3ME Link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kqn5MQiDY
  • 205. Sometime in the 1940s, the backyard of this building saw the formation of a pit over a feet deep. Bamboo poles had to be erected around the pit in order to prevent it from further increasing in size.  What was the reason for the formation of the pit?  Image in the next slide.
  • 209. This three-issue mini-series from DC comics stands outside of the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe. In this alternate universe, Jonathan and Martha Kent do not discover the spaceship outside Smallville carrying baby Kal-El, due to their pick-up truck breaking down, and hence there is no Superman.  The exact nature of the break-down is detailed in the opening paragraph. These lines are, apparently, a reference to a late 15th century incident, the subject of which is very much in news.  What are the lines in question? Also, identify the subject. Image follows.
  • 215. The most common theory proposed is that it was instituted by the upper caste Brahmins to signify their domicile and to set them apart from the rest of the population.  Other reasons proposed include: - Maintenance of cool interiors and to fend off mosquitoes - Display of human resilience against a bleak backdrop  However, the actual reason is the usage of copper compounds to prevent damage from the termites prevalent in the area.  What are we talking about?
  • 218. Anabasis is the most famous work of the Greek soldier and historian Xenophon. The books is about his experiences while accompanying the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who wanted to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.  The march (401-399 B.C.) was a failure and the joy of the troops on seeing the Euxeinos Pontos from Mount Theches on their way back was evident in their shouting out something. The shout itself meant that they were at last close to Greek cities.  What did they shout out? Who, supposedly, used this cry as the title of a Booker Prize winning work in the late 1970s?  Image in the next slide.
  • 222. Rendez-vous Houston: A City in Concert was a live performance by French composer Jean Michel Jarre on April 5, 1986, to coincide with the release of his album Rendez-Vous. It held the Guinness World Record for the largest outdoor "rock concert" in history (1 to 1.5 million in attendance) for a brief time.  One of the events planned for the concert was that Ronald McNair, a close friend of Jarre, would play the saxophone from elsewhere during the track “Last Rendez-Vous”. However, this did not happen and localite (and multiple Grammy nominee) Kirk Whalum had to fill in.  Where was McNair supposed to play his saxophone from? What record would this have given him? Listen to the audio clip.  Audio removed. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtGG1WLP1pk
  • 225. She was born in 1881 to a wealthy Jewish banker in Austria. Described as a ‘proud, arrogant and outspoken woman…a modern woman living in a world of yesterday’, she hosted a renowned salon at the beginning of the 20th century, with guests like Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig and Jakob Wassermann. To escape from her parents’ household, she entered into an arranged marriage with a business tycoon named Ferdinand at the age of 18.  She is most famous for something Ferdinand released in 1907, originally intended as a present for her parents’ anniversary. Something similar was later made in 1912.  What did he get made? OR Name her.
  • 228. It is a large, barrel-shaped device invented in 1979 by Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory. Each device weighed between 250 and 350 lbs., and had to be rolled out of the back of a customized pickup truck in about 30 seconds, using metal wheel ramps and then placed directly in the path of a tornado. When absorbed by the tornado, the device could give valuable information about its structure.  The device was also the inspiration for similar instrument packages used in the 1996 movie Twister.  What is this device called? And by what name is the instrument in Twister referred to? Images in the next slide.
  • 232. One cylinder of LPG used to take around 1.5 days to exhaust itself. Also, there were severe space constraints of stocking the cylinders. So, a 6 lakh project for a pipeline-fed switch-over to PNG was sanctioned on December 14, 2005 and Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) was asked to complete it on priority. PNG was chosen because it was 20% cheaper, safer, and a more reliable source. The agency went on to lay a 500-metre pipeline to complete the task.  What is all this about?
  • 235. “Perpetual Repercussion” is an art installation that went on to win multiple lighting awards in 2009.  It runs the length of the flat roof and front face a building to ensure that it is identifiable even from a great distance. A brainchild of prominent artist Dyveke Sanne, the system ensures that the building shines in light summer nights as well as dark winter days. Highly reflective stainless steel, mirrors, and prisms together act as a beacon, reflecting light in the summer months, while in the winter, a network of 200 fibre-optic cables gives the piece a muted greenish-turquoise and white light.  Which building would you find this artwork on?
  • 239. Theme Round  Closed theme, non-exhaustive  10 questions  5 points for individual answers  Points for the theme 1-2 - +25 3-4 - +20 5-6 - +15 7-8 - +10 9-10 - +5  Uniform negative of minus 5 throughout for wrong attempts at the theme. Unlimited attempts at the theme at any point.
  • 240. “Got me a movie, I want you to know Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know Girlie so groovy, I want you to know Don't know about you, but I am ____ _______ ____________ Wanna grow up to be, be a debaser, debaser.”  The title and lyrics of this song is a reference to a movie X and the fact that X debased morality and standards of art, as per the band.  Name the band and identify X. Listen to the audio clip.  Audio removed. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyS9JwtFoQ
  • 241. Both these images that appeared during Euro 2012 are references to X, who has been ranked three times by Forbes magazine among the most powerful women in the world – 3rd in 2005, 17th in 2008 and 47th in 2009.  Who is X?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 244. It was conceived at the end of WW II, with the aim of ‘providing a platform for the flowering of the human spirit.’  Named in 1948 by Scottish playwright-journalist Scott Kemp, it is today the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 edition spanning 25 days including 42,096 performances of 2,695 shows in 279 venues. It has spawned many notable original shows and helped establish the careers of many writers and performers, like Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.  Just identify.
  • 245. This 1991 pre-season NHL game (first ever official outdoor game) between the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings took place at a location where the 6 main structures are named Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius, and Forum.  Which location? What is the name of the main entertainment venue at this location?  Image in the next slide.
  • 247. Fort Wood is a disused army post named after Eleazer D Wood, a hero of the War of 1812. Abandoned after the early 19th century, it has been used as a recruiting station during the Civil War and also as a POW camp.  The only major addition to Fort Wood over the years has been a creation that used a metalworking technique called Repousse, wherein a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design on the opposite side. This technique made the addition very light for its volume with the skin thickness less than 0.1 inch.  Just identify this addition.
  • 248. X is one of the commonest emblems used by freemasons to represent industry, perseverance, diligence and co-operation. Various masonic textbooks portray X as symbolic of cathedrals and their construction. The term X was also used in place of the current term Lodge by early freemasons. For this reason, when a dissention happens in a Lodge, the going off and forming another Lodge is called Y.  What are X and Y?
  • 249. These rivers form when a threshold level of sediment load or slope is reached. There is a relative lack of vegetation combined with heavy sediment deposition at high flows and re-erosion at low flows, resulting multiple small, shallow channels that divide and recombine numerous times.  What are such rivers called?  Image in the next slide.
  • 251. The Thai Airways logo incorporates elements of traditional Thai imagery, including the colours and image of a flower genus that is popular in Thailand. The various other aspects of the airline, including the lounges, spas and frequent flyer programs of the airline are also named after this flower.  The particular flower species represented in the logo (and presented to female passengers) is nicknamed after a 18th century personality who is associated with the colour pink/purple (which was the standard fashion for the person’s porcelain business).  Which flower? Also name the personality. Images follow.
  • 253. 14 collections of over 50,000 ‘excitable units’ were analyzed for this study (by researchers at the Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary) that was published in a 2002 edition of The Nature.  Each unit, once activated, was found to follow the same set of internal rules to pass through the active and refractory phases before returning to its original resting/excitable state.  The subject of the study, about 6-12 m wide, was found to move predominantly clockwise with a speed of 12 m/s, expanding over a period of time to acquire a stable, near-linear shape.  Identify the subject.
  • 254. This movie features Henry Fonda as a supporting character named Watson. In a pivotal scene, the hero accidentally spills acid onto his lap and shouts in pain and asks Watson to immediately come to his aid.  This scene is followed by the hero breaking into a particular Native American dance, like he always used to on getting excited. This was because he was awarded the title of Honorary Chief in 1870 by the tribe in question for his work in translating their unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols.  Whose life is the movie based on? Which tribe? Image follows.
  • 257. “Got me a movie, I want you to know Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know Girlie so groovy, I want you to know Don't know about you, but I am ____ _______ ____________ Wanna grow up to be, be a debaser, debaser.”  The title and lyrics of this song is a reference to a movie X and the fact that X debased morality and standards of art, as per the band.  Name the band and identify X. Listen to the audio clip.  Audio removed. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyS9JwtFoQ
  • 259. Both these images that appeared during Euro 2012 are references to X, who has been ranked three times by Forbes magazine among the most powerful women in the world – 3rd in 2005, 17th in 2008 and 47th in 2009.  Who is X?  Images in the next 2 slides.
  • 263. It was conceived at the end of WW II, with the aim of ‘providing a platform for the flowering of the human spirit.’  Named in 1948 by Scottish playwright-journalist Scott Kemp, it is today the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 edition spanning 25 days including 42,096 performances of 2,695 shows in 279 venues. It has spawned many notable original shows and helped establish the careers of many writers and performers, like Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.  Just identify.
  • 265. This 1991 pre-season NHL game (first ever official outdoor game) between the New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings took place at a location where the 6 main structures are named Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius, and Forum.  Which location? What is the name of the main entertainment venue at this location?  Image in the next slide.
  • 269. Fort Wood is a disused army post named after Eleazer D Wood, a hero of the War of 1812. Abandoned after the early 19th century, it has been used as a recruiting station during the Civil War and also as a POW camp.  The only major addition to Fort Wood over the years has been a creation that used a metalworking technique called Repousse, wherein a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design on the opposite side. This technique made the addition very light for its volume with the skin thickness less than 0.1 inch.  Just identify this addition.
  • 271. X is one of the commonest emblems used by freemasons to represent industry, perseverance, diligence and co-operation. Various masonic textbooks portray X as symbolic of cathedrals and their construction. The term X was also used in place of the current term Lodge by early freemasons. For this reason, when a dissention happens in a Lodge, the going off and forming another Lodge is called Y.  What are X and Y?
  • 273. These rivers form when a threshold level of sediment load or slope is reached. There is a relative lack of vegetation combined with heavy sediment deposition at high flows and re-erosion at low flows, resulting multiple small, shallow channels that divide and recombine numerous times.  What are such rivers called?  Image in the next slide.
  • 276. The Thai Airways logo incorporates elements of traditional Thai imagery, including the colours and image of a flower genus that is popular in Thailand. The various other aspects of the airline, including the lounges, spas and frequent flyer programs of the airline are also named after this flower.  The particular flower species represented in the logo (and presented to female passengers) is nicknamed after a 18th century personality who is associated with the colour pink/purple (which was the standard fashion for the person’s porcelain business).  Which flower? Also name the personality. Images follow.
  • 279. 14 collections of over 50,000 ‘excitable units’ were analyzed for this study (by researchers at the Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary) that was published in a 2002 edition of The Nature.  Each unit, once activated, was found to follow the same set of internal rules to pass through the active and refractory phases before returning to its original resting/excitable state.  The subject of the study, about 6-12 m wide, was found to move predominantly clockwise with a speed of 12 m/s, expanding over a period of time to acquire a stable, near-linear shape.  Identify the subject.
  • 281. This movie features Henry Fonda as a supporting character named Watson. In a pivotal scene, the hero accidentally spills acid onto his lap and shouts in pain and asks Watson to immediately come to his aid.  This scene is followed by the hero breaking into a particular Native American dance, like he always used to on getting excited. This was because he was awarded the title of Honorary Chief in 1870 by the tribe in question for his work in translating their unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols.  Whose life is the movie based on? Which tribe? Image follows.
  • 285. Pixie  Yulia Tymoshenko  Fringe  Caesar  Statue of Liberty  Beehive  Braid  Madame de Pompadour  Wave  Mohawk
  • 297. Differential Scoring  8 questions  Point scheme 1-3 teams - +20 4-6 teams - +15 7-8 teams - +10  Minus 10 for wrong answers. One attempt per question.
  • 298. When Niels Bohr was awarded the Highest Civil Honor in Denmark, the Order of the Elephant, in 1947, he was asked to create a family coat of arms/crest as per custom.  Staying true to his motto ‘contraria sunt complementa’, he chose something that supposedly represented two incoming colliding heavy ions with quarks in the colliding nuclei.  So, what did Bohr choose as his crest?
  • 301. In the musical Evita, the song “The art of the possible” depicts Juan Peron and a group of officers indulging in a contest, which Peron wins by eliminating the other officers one by one. This concept was included to symbolize Peron’s rise to power.  What contest?
  • 305. It started in the late 1950s as a nonfiction article about the ecosystem of the place pictured, with the Department of Agriculture using Hudsonia (Poverty grass) to stabilize it. The author of the article described the problem in the ecosystem as “every bit as devastating as a tidal wave …they've even caused deaths.”  What?  Image in the next slide.
  • 309. This is an infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope showing a long tendril of dust and gas that appears dark, is 300 light-years long and 1-2 light-years wide. It contains about 100,000 suns’ worth of material and has been dubbed the ‘First Bone of the Milky Way’.  This piece of galactic skeleton was named (by the scientists at the Boston University who discovered it) X, that supposedly is the descendant of a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs, an order of Mesozoic marine reptiles.  Identify X. Image in the next slide.
  • 313. Ambe-Babula is a tiny tribal hamlet just off the Bombay-Agra highway in the Nashik district.  The main source of income for the villagers is collection and sale of scrap with copper fetching Rs 80/kg, Brass Rs 60, Aluminium Rs 30, and Iron Rs 5. The villagers trek 5-10 km every morning, and wait from 8 am to 3 pm collect the scrap from a 25,000-acre area, usually weighing 10-25 kg and up to 10 feet long. The whole process has been dubbed by the media as the rural version of catches win matches.  So, what exactly is the source of all this scrap?
  • 316. The first plans were mooted during the reign of Florestan I, but bore fruit only during the rule of Charles III. The plans were actually a result of the 1840s revolt by the towns of Menton and Roquebrune, that crippled finances.  The plans were implemented by two gentlemen named Francois and Louis Blanc who petitioned Charles III to rename a depressed seaside area known as “Les Spelegures” (Den of Thieves) after the king himself. Their venture also profited heavily from the newly established railroad system. Soon enough, the region finally recovered from the previous half century of economic slump.  What was this venture? OR What did this venture pioneer?
  • 319. Initially, i.e. circa 1986, hands could be used. However, when this arrangement failed, a mounted infrared system was developed, which detected movement in cheek muscles. The most integral part of this mechanism is a grey box in the office of one Mr Sam Blackburn, that contains the only copy of the final desired output, which he is trying to reverse-engineer as the company that made them has gone bankrupt. But this system is failing gradually as well, to limit the output to one unit per minute. Hence, eye-tracking systems and brain scanning are being considered as future modalities.  What are we talking about?
  • 322. It dates back to his playing days with Gloucestershire, for whom he scored a hundred against Oxford University on debut.  It, however, entered popular conscience in the 2nd Test between England vs. Australia at Edgbaston, in 1985. He had this to say about it: “Someone had written in to dear old Brian Johnston. There was a titter in the crowd. I thought there must be a streaker on the field but it was Brian telling the world - and the spectators were listening on their radios. I've been lumbered with it ever since.”  What are we talking about?