2012 KQA Ganesh Nayak Memorial Open Quiz Finals

XXIII Ganesh Nayak Memorial
Open Quiz 2012
Finals
Quizmasters
Vivek Karthikeyan and Venkatesh S

Written Round – 8 questions
Clockwise – 20 questions
Anti-Clockwise – 20 questions
List-It

A Look AT THE
MOVIES
 8 questions
 5 points each
 Bonus of 5 for getting all correct

2. Two movies.. ID both. 2.5 points each

1. Stalag 17
2. Lawrence of Arabia; The Wild One

1. Stalag 17
3. The Agony & The Ecstasy

1. Stalag 17
3. The Agony & The Ecstacy
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1. Stalag 17
5. Rosemary’s baby

1. Stalag 17
6. The Sting

1. Stalag 17
6. The Sting
7. All the President’s Men

1. Stalag 17
6. The Sting
7. All the President’s Men
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Clockwise

20 questions on Infinite Bounce
+10 for direct and pass; no negatives
+10/-10 on Infinite Pounce

1

The top row represents the acceptable dress code and the
bottom row, what is not acceptable. Issued by which
organization, as the dress code for specific days, at which
location?

Issued by the Marylebone Cricket Club as the
dress code on Match Days at the Lord’s
Member’s pavilion and enclosure

2

Narendra Modi, as part of his election campaign has
announced the carving out of four new districts in
Gujarat. Two of these have been named to evoke
regional pride – one after a famous structure and the
other after a geographical feature that witnessed
exploits of people like Rana Pratap.

Name both – no part points

• (Gir)-Somnath
• Aravalli

3
The term probably was first seen in the popular 1863
story "The Children of the Public", where Edward Everett
Hale used it as a metaphor for any form of public
spending to the citizenry. The term was further
popularized by a 1919 article by Chester Collins Maxey
in the National Municipal Review, which reported on
certain legislative acts known to members of Congress
as “___ _____bills”. He claimed that the phrase
originated in a pre-Civil War practice of giving slaves a
___ of ____ as a reward and requiring them to compete
among themselves to get their share of the hand-out.
Which term, used in a derogatory fashion today to
refer to a pattern of government spending?

• Pork barrel spending / politics

4
"Bud, that's crazy!", I told him. "We've hardly even started yet. There's no way
we can get it done by then."

"I know," he responded, in a low voice, almost a whisper.

"You know? If you know the schedule is off-base, why don't you correct it?"

"Well, it's Steve. Steve insists that we're shipping in early 1982, and won't
accept answers to the contrary. The best way to describe the situation is a term
from Star Trek. Steve has a ______ ________ ______."

"A what?"

"A ______ ________ ______. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can
convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around,
but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules. And there's a couple of other
things you should know about working with Steve.“

Fill in the blanks with a famous phrase

5
This term is used in a variety of businesses.
Prominent among them is pharma, where patent
owners at the expiry of patent periods make tiny
changes to the formulations and get a new patent.

The term has been doing the rounds majorly in
Indian legal circles as a large pharma company has
been locked in battle against the Indian government
over this clause in Indian patent law, for its drug,
Glivec.

What term; which company?

• Evergreening
• Novartis

6
In the 1980 Hockenheim Grand Prix, the German
organizers, claiming that they had not budgets, did
now allow “Prof” to enter the control room and
provide him with the necessary equipment, as per the
new rule introduced by Ecclestone. This irked
Ecclestone so much that he threatened to stand in
front of the starting grid and make all the drivers
disembark till Prof was allowed to play his role and
given facilities. The shocked organizers relented.

What was the fuss and who is Prof?

• Prof Sid Watkins, the official doctor/surgeon of
F1 for long, who revolutionised the principles
and practice of driver safety
• Ecclestone had introduced the rule of Sid and an
anesthesiologist travel in a separate car in the
first lap of the race, as well as have a helicopter
ambulance on stand-by
• The following year Watkins returned to Hockenheim to find a
brand new, well-equipped medical centre as well as a
helicopter ambulance on standby for the whole weekend.

• Epistolary novels – written in the form of a letter or
documents / diary entries and so on…

8
A Bangladeshi filmmaker, Ahsanullah Moni, spent
nearly $58 million to build this near Dhaka – it was
completed in 2009 and irked Indian officials.
Now there is news that one will be built in Dubai, by
Link Global Ltd., taking just 2 years, as opposed to
the original 20 years. Spread across 200,000 sq.
metres, it will be based on designs from the era of the
original, but also include a 300-room luxury hotel, a
mall and cocktail bars. The developers are also
(appropriately?) pitching it as a wedding venue.
Indian officials have dismissed the fact that this
development may have an economic impact on India.
What is happening?

• Replica of the Taj Mahal, called Taj Arabia

9

The philosophy of the person on the
right, influenced the works of this
period (shown above), which marked
the end of a culturally vibrant period,
and uncertainty about what was
coming. Which time period, what
was it called – either the French
name or what it was called in
Russia?

• The end of the 19th century, in Europe, France
and/or Paris was called fin de siecle
• In Russia, it was called Silver Age

10
In 1974, after losing a game to his son and getting stuck in a
traffic jam that prompted a dinnertime outburst directed at the
oil companies, economics professor Ralph Anspach took matters
into his own hands. He created something that showed the evils
of ___________, which led to a 10-year long legal battle over a
trademark, which ultimately led to him discovering that the
original idea came from a patent by Elizabeth Magie in the early
1900s and was a public domain name – finally he reached a
settlement with the company he was
fighting.

What’s being described?

• The board game, Anti-Monopoly

11

The two institutions on the right are named after the scientists on
the left. In turn, these institutions gave their names to?

• Flerovium was chosen for Flerov Laboratory of
Nuclear Reactions in Russia, a facility where many
superheavy elements have been produced. The lab
is named after physicist Georgiy N. Flerov, who
discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium,
which led to the USSR’s development of an atomic
bomb.
• Livermorium honors Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California, which has
been involved in the discovery of heavy elements 113
through 118. Another element, Lawrencium at 103, is
already named after the lab’s founder, Ernest O.
Lawrence.

12
 Quickly-built mansions; a group of large houses built in the
same style in the same area.
 The fall of local culture in favor of a global culture prescribed
by large corporations.
 A low-paying job
 A Latin American literary movement
 A newspaper for the masses due to its simple prose and splash
of colors
 A term used by George Ritzer to describe how society is
moving towards the culture of efficiency, calculability,
predictability, control and culture – all essential elements of a
certain type of business establishment

What’s common?

• McWords
• McMansion
• McWorld
• McJob
• Mcondo
• Mcpaper
• Mcdonaldisation

13
 This symbol most likely has origins from the Middle Ages.
Many people were unable to write even their own names.
For them, this became a convention used as a signature.
With it also signifying the St. Andrews' Cross, one further
affirmed his vow by doing this, signifying a connection
with the signature beyond mere words.
 Most agree that the other shortcut developed in the US,
most likely around the late 1800s or early 1900s. Some
believe that Jewish immigrants to the United States,
unwilling to use the cross, adopted the “_” instead; given
that tic-tac-toe developed at around the same time,
perhaps the two are related, but that is entirely
speculation.

What two commonly used shortcuts / symbols?

• Xs and Os for kisses and hugs

14

The Samkos bush frog (scientific name Chiromantis
samkosensis) is found in Cambodia. Due to the effect of a
pigment biliverdin, a waste product usually processed in
the liver, they have a strange phenomenon that occurs
when the biliverdin is passed back into the blood; a
phenomenon also seen in some lizards. This visible
through the frog's thin, translucent skin, making it even
better camouflaged and possibly even causing it to taste
unpalatable to predators.
What?

• The frog is green-blooded and turquoise-boned

15
The sport of boxing dates back to the ancient Greeks.
During the Roman era, to make the sport more interesting,
the Romans made an important and fundamental way to
the way the sport was played, and created a circular area.
Much later, when the sport was revived in England, the
boxers would fight bare knuckled, with the crowd of
spectators forming a loose circle around them.

What was the main difference between the way the
way boxing was contested by the Ancient Greeks and
how we know it today? What common term in boxing
comes from what is described above?

• Ancient Greek fighters remained seated face-to-
face and pummelled each other until one was
knocked unconscious
• The term / concept of a “ring” in boxing

16
In reponse to the ________ ______, a joint statement by
Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek,
outlining the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan,
Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki used the word, Mokusatsu.

Legend has it that the word was misinterpreted, which led
to the disastrous consequence of the atomic bombing of
Japan.

Fill in the blanks – what was the misinterpretation?

• Potsdam Declaration
• While Suzuki meant to say, “no comment for the
time being”, it was interpreted that he meant
“ignore”.

• The Potsdam Declaration ultimatum allowed for only one
acceptable answer, unconditional surrender. Any other
answer would, as the declaration warned, cause "prompt and
utter destruction."

17

Give a work of art and a painter to connect; the most
famous work of this painter is actually a sculpture (set of
4) that can be seen at Trafalgar Square, London since 1867.
Which one?

• Edwin Landseer – Monarch of the Glen
• The four lions around Nelson’s column

18

Connect the pictures and the video (removed – video
of Vertigo opening titles)

• Saul Bass
• Designed all those corporate logos
• Created title sequence of Vertigo
• The 14 reissued covers of the James Bond books were created
by six separate designers; creative director Suzanne Dean
briefed the designers to be inspired by Saul Bass

19

Connect – this is a non-exhaustive set from a total of 22
so far, expected to go to 26 and end in ‘Zero’. Pictures in the
bottom row are generic

Malice, Alibi, Gumshoe, Fugitive, Noose,
Burglar, Silence, Quarry

Sue Grafton’s series of novels featuring
Kinsey Millhone

20
The word comes from the original word which means to
dance gracefully. Lyrics are mainly in an old language called
Braj Bhasha and describes the dances which Lord Krishna
performed with Radha and the Gopis of Vrindavan. The
dance form faded away and it is totally a pure music genre.

It was X, a great lover of music and dance and himself a great
artist, who in the 19th century gave full patronage to these
dance-songs and operas – he used the pen name “Akhtar” for
ghazals and “Jaan-e-Aalam Piya” or “Akthar Piya” when he
composed these.

Who is X and what is the music form?

Anti-Clockwise

20 questions on Infinite Bounce
+10 for direct and pass; no negatives
+10/-10 on Infinite Pounce

1.

We know that this the rod of Asclepius, but aids
workers in Africa will tell you that this is rather a
depiction of a twig used to capture and extract _____
_____s.

The _____ _____ got its common name when
Europeans observed a high incidence on the western
coast of Africa.

Fill in the blanks.

 Guinea Worm
 It is a major parasitic scourge in Africa, very debilitating to the victims.
The worms have a very long migratory path under the skin. They can be
up to a meter in length. The technique is still used as a treatment today
in many villages.

2.

All of India’s supply comes from a single factory in Sasni, Uttar
Pradesh—Khandelwal Glass Works Ltd—who have been making them
since 1981. The supply goes mainly to Delhi, Punjab and UP, and the
southern states of Tamizh Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

Patented by an Englishman in 1872, and considered an improvement
over the bowling pin-shaped “Hamiltons,” which tended to slip easily and
roll off surfaces, these became standard across the British empire. Prized
as collector items, they are now be found only in two places—in India,
and in Japan, for a curiously similar purpose (Ramune).

What object?

 Codd bottles, used for banta and paneer soda

3.

From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean:
We are proud to claim the title
Of ____ ____ ____.

Fill in the blanks and explain lines 1 and 2.

 United States Marine
 Halls of Montezuma refers to the Battle of Chapultepec, during the
Mexican-American War, where a force of Marines stormed Chapultepec
Castle.
 Shores of Tripoli refers to the Barbary War

4.

The painter of the first work is famous for his Rokeby Venus.

The creator of the second painting has another famous work titled
“Work”, spent the latter years of his life painting The Manchester Murals.

Name the two painters, and the subject (same in both
paintings).

Larger pics follow.

 Diego Velázquez
 Ford Madox Brown
 Joseph’s Coat

5.

Popular mythology assigned it a patriotic significance. The four pockets
were said to represent the Four Virtues: Propriety, Justice, Honesty, and
Shame.

The five center-front buttons were said to represent legislation,
supervision, examination, administration and jurisdiction. The three
cuff-buttons symbolized Nationalism, Democracy, and People's
Livelihood. And in all symbolizing unity and peace.

What is being referred to?

6. Connect the two vertical sets.
• French Open 1981 • US Open 2008
• Bjorn Borg • Roger Federer
• 6–1, 4–6, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1 • 6–2, 7–5, 6–2

• US Open 1982 • Australian Open 2010
• Jimmy Connors • Roger Federer
• 6–3, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 • 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(13–11)

• Australian Open 1983 • Australian Open 2011
• Mats Wilander • Novak Djokovic
• 6–1, 4–6, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1 • 6–4, 6–2, 6–3

• US Open 1983 • Wimbledon 2012
• Jimmy Connors • Roger Federer
• 6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–5, 6–0 • 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4

 Ivan Lendl’s losses
 Andy Murray’s losses
 Curiously, both of them share the record for losing their first four
Grand Slam finals

7.

The 1707 grounding of four ships of Vice-Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's
fleet resulting in heavy loss of life, gave an impetus to the establishment of X.
An act was passed in 1714, and the greatest scientific minds of the day were
gathered to work on the problem, including Sir Isaac Newton.

Prizes were put up for those who could demonstrate a working device or
method. The top prize was £20,000 for a method that could come within 30
nautical miles.

For decades none was able to come up with a practical solution to the
problem. John Harrison who invented the marine chronometer showed that
his method was the way of the future. However the board, to its discredit,
never awarded the prize to Harrison, nor anyone else.

What was the Board constituted for?

 The Board of Longitude was constituted for determining the best
method to find the longitude when a ship was out at sea.

8.

Sir Robert Swan is a polar explorer, environmental leader and public
speaker. He is the first person in history to walk to both the North and
South poles. Swan has dedicated his life to the preservation of Antarctica
and runs an organization called 2041.

Why is it called 2041?

 Antarctica is currently protected by the treaty prohibiting drilling and
mining. 2041 is when the Antarctic Treaty comes to an end, exposing
the continent’s unspoilt wilderness.

9.

Identify the models and
connect.

 The James Webb Space Terminal, set to replace Hubble in 2018.

10. Banging the gavel on transactions running into millions of rupees
every day used to give a sense of great authority, says Ashok Batra,
chairman and managing director of Kolkata’s J Thomas and Co. Pvt. Ltd.

In 2009 AF Ferguson and Co., a consulting firm recommended
electronic disposal. The last open ______ was held in 2011 at the same
place where it all began, Nilhat House, almost 150 years after J Thomas
launched it.

Fill in the blank.

 Open outcry tea auctions.
 Till last year they were done through open outcry auctions. But now it is
all done electronically.

11. This is in a region called Alto Patache in Chile. What is going on?

 Alto Patache is in the Atacama desert, the driest place on earth. These
nets are fog catchers. When fog passes through the net water
condenses into small drops before being collected into a water tank.

13.

It is now an established fact that a cataclysmic meteor strike had
occurred in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, and this led to the end of
dinosaurs and so on.

What was the most important finding that first led
scientists on the meteor track?

 Through the unusually high abundance of iridium in certain places.
Iridium is a rare element in the Earth’s crust. which is a rare element
that is found rare on Earth, but abundant in meteorites.

14.

William Kidd and Jean Laffite were two such, who were
commissioned to attack enemy ships in a state of war. Their crews
were entitled to receive portions of the value of any cargo they
seized. Limiting them to the activities laid down in their
commissions was difficult, and the line between their activity and
piracy was often blurred.

What activity, and how has it been heard of in recent
times?

 Mark Knofler, Privateering

15.

It has a romantic background, that of a secret liaison between the
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu II, John Walter Edward Douglas Scott
Montagu, and his secretary. After it was created there are only two
instances when it was not installed.

The then Princess Elizabeth in 1950 got St. George on horseback,
slaying a dragon, designed by artist Edward Seago. Princess Margaret
chose Pegasus by Louis Lejeune.

What is being referred to?

 The Spirit of Ecstasy as a hood ornament on the Rolls-Royce

16.

One of a dying breed this man
beats the drum and sings
traditional mâni in time for
Sahur.
What is he up to?

 Waking up people in time for a pre-dawn meal during Ramadan.

17.

At some unknown time, or so the story goes, a man lived in
a hut in the Luberon forest. A great plague, which caused
an unquenchable thirst, struck the region.

Its only cure proved to be a potion the man brewed from
herbs. Once the plague had subsided the man left for
Marseille and sold his drink in a bar called ‘Au Bonhomee
Passes-soif’ (‘The Good-Natured Thirst Quencher’).

How do we know it today?

 Pastis, the quintessential Provencal aperitif.

18. 4th November 1996. What was to happen the following
day?

19. It got its name after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento chose
to paint it pink.

What name? Which pop star gave a rally call of sorts from
the balcony facing the plaza?

 La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace in Argentina
 Madonna, in Evita

20.

What are these awarded for? What device with a 6-letter
name, used to compact or flatten granular material, are
these modelled after?

 Tamper
 World Barista Championship

List It
1 question, 10 answers
+2 per answer. Bonus of 5 for getting all correct.

 The Danube passes through 10 countries from source to
mouth, including four capital cities. Name all countries.

 Germany
 Austria (Vienna)
 Slovakia (Bratislava)
 Hungary (Budapest)
 Croatia
 Serbia (Belgrade)
 Bulgaria
 Moldova
 Ukraine
 Romania

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