Anoop Adithian Memorial Open Quiz 2013 - Finals

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Anoop Adithian
Memorial Open Quiz 2013

• Written round
• 8 questions, based on movie posters
designed in the form of Turkish miniature
paintings by Murat Palta
• 5 points each
• Bonus of 10 points if you get all 8 correct

• 12 questions on infinite pounce
• +10 / -5 on pounce

1. During the 1990/91 season, India and Sri
Lanka played a one off test in Chandigarh .
India won the test by an innings and 8 runs
giving Mohammed Azharuddin his first
victory as a captain.
Venkatapathy Raju was the man of the
match and Marvan Attapattu made his
debut in this test. The Indian line up featured
Shastri, Vengsarkar, Kapil, Manjerakar and
the young Sachin among others.
Why is this test of particular importance to
cricket statisticians , especially with respect
with the records and numbers that was
splashed across the TV screens in the last 2
weeks ?

There was no proper scoring in this match. Sachin
made 11 runs after spending 92 mins in the middle.
The number of balls were not counted. This is the
reason why Sachin does not have a test strike rate.
#TributeKoschen !

2. The song X is mentioned in the book series
50 Shades of Grey. Elena Lincoln, nicknamed
„X‟ by Ana in a reference to the film „Y‟, was
Christian Grey's oldest friend and business
partner. She is described as an elegant, sexy
regal blonde and always appears to be very
well-groomed. She entered Christian's life as a
friend to his adoptive mother Dr. Grace
Trevelyn Grey and soon they began an affair
when he was 15 years old. Identify X and Y.

3. Preparing the „Ashtabandham‟ is a 41-day
long procedure. Eight ingredients that go into
the process are finely powdered conch, gallnut, sealing wax, gooseberry, resin of „pinus
dammar‟, two varieties of gravel from the
Bharatapuzha and the confluence of three
rivers (Triveni) and cotton. Except cotton
(which is added in the last stage), all the other
ingredients are pounded using five wooden
hammers, each weighing ten kilos. The final
output is made into smooth pebble-like balls
which harden as they cool. What is the
ashtabandham used for?

It is the adhesive used to fix the idol onto the
seat in Hindu temples.

4. Until the late 19th
century, this item was
made using the mold
shown on the right. After a
series of boiling and filtering
processes, the substance
was poured into the mold
and the impurities would
drain through the hole on
the mold.
• What geographical
entity was named after
the substance made
using this mold?

5. This guy, along with his older brother
Claude, invented the Pyréolophore, probably
the world's first internal combustion engine.
Ten years later, they were the first in the world
to make an engine work with a fuel injection
system. In 1818 he became interested in the
ancestor of the bicycle, a Laufmaschine and
built himself a model and called it the
vélocipède (fast foot) and caused quite a
sensation on the local country roads.
However, he is most famous for being the first
person to do something. What? Also name
him.

Nicéphore Niépce
Took the world's first known photograph, View
from the Window at Le Gras

6. This dance from a 1904
broadway musical “Piff
Paff Pouf” involves
twirling or jumping a rope
wearing costumes that
glow in the dark. The
dance was named after
the material that they
used to make the
costumes glow in the
dark – it was also used in
in products such as
toothpaste, hair creams,
and even food items due
to its supposed curative
powers. Name the
substance.

7. Estelle __________, an
actress and singer who
passed away in 2008 was
described by The New York
Times as the "matriarch of
one of the leading families in
American comedy". In an
obituary, they mentioned
that she “delivered one of
the most memorably funny
lines in movie history”. What
was the funny line?

“I‟ll have what she‟s having”
from When Harry met Sally

8. Raza is a mathematical formula used in a
sporting tournament which takes care of what
is some times referred to as “the toughest
scoring job in sports”. The formula, which is
based on a mathematical formula called a
Gompertz curve, is applied to each athlete's
performance to calculate a points score. The
athlete with the highest score wins.

In which tournament is this system employed
and why does the conventional system fail
here?

Paralympics
This is to ensure that the athlete with the least
impairment does not receive an unfair
advantage.

9. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is a
condition in which severely overweight
people fail to breathe rapidly enough or
deeply enough, resulting in low blood oxygen
levels and high blood carbon dioxide (CO2)
levels. Many people with this condition also
frequently stop breathing altogether for short
periods of time during sleep (obstructive sleep
apnea), resulting in many partial awakenings
during the night, which leads to continual
sleepiness during the day. The condition is
commonly known by another name, which is
derived from a work of fiction. What is its
common name?

Pickwickian syndrome
Joe the “fat boy” in Pickwick papers suffers
from this disease.

10. Identify this unusual musical instrument.

12. These were the first answers to what?
1. Bat, butterfly, moth
2. Two humans, fourlegged animal, dog,
elephant, bear
3. Two humans, human
figures
4. Animal hide, skin, rug
5. Bat, butterfly, moth
6. Animal hide, skin, rug

7. Human heads or faces,
heads of women or
children
8. Animal: not cat or dog,
four-legged animal
9. Human
10. Crab, lobster, spider,
rabbit head, caterpillars,
worms, snakes

• Short Visual Connect
• 10 visuals, non - exhaustive
• No points for identifying individual visuals

13. This item, which is exhibited in the Museum
of Modern Art in New York has four pages
that are traversed by carefully hand-drawn
vertical lines that seem to denote the units
of time as units of space. On the fourth
page, the following formula is written: “1
page=7 inches=56 seconds.”
What is this object?

Score of John Cage‟s 4‟33”

14. An author‟s representation of his most
famous character. Near the character, he
wrote in Greek “with a minor error in spelling
and characteristically skewed accents”.
Name the author and the character.

16. It was estimated to cost $100,000 and the
initial conceptual design was made of
fiberglass. In order to provide flexibility,
another design contest was held and
International Latex Corporation, otherwise
known as Playtex emerged as the winner.
They originally manufactured bras and
girdles but their expertise in working with
rubber proved to be crucial in the flexibility
aspect. What are we talking about?

17. In 1890, John Elbert Wilkie, a young
reporter for The Chicago Tribune, fabricated
this legend to create sensation in a
cutthroat newspaper market. The trick
made its debut on Aug. 8, 1890, on the front
page of The Tribune's second section. An
anonymous, illustrated article told that two
Yale
graduates,
an
artist
and
a
photographer, apparently experienced this
on a visit to India. The story gained attention
and soon many other people came forward
claiming to have witnessed this. What was
the article about?

18. Carnatic music composers usually add their
„mudra‟ in kritis to identify themselves – Saint
Tyagaraja uses „Tyagaraja‟, Muttuswami
Dikshitar uses „Guruguha‟ and Syama Sasthri
uses „Syamakrishna‟ as their mudras.
Which famous singer – composer uses
„Varada dasa‟ as his mudra as a tribute to his
Guru? Also name him Guru.

M D Ramanathan, „Tiger‟ Varadachariar

19. Legend goes that this mystic matriarch
from the 14th century was an incarnation of
Durga. At some point during her life, the child
of one of her clansmen died. She attempted
to bring the child back to life, only to be told
by Yama, the god of death, that he had
already been reincarnated. She made a deal
with Yama: From that point forward, all of her
tribespeople would be reborn as ______ until
they could be born back into the clan.
Name her and fill in the blank.

20.
This
invention,
patented in 1949 was
first made using half of
a suitcase as an outer
shell with a series of
belts, pulleys and a
motor to turn a scroll
of butcher paper that
could
be
turned
gradually. What was
this contraption?

21. This cabin, now displayed inside the
Newseum in Washington, D.C. was built by X
just outside Lincoln, Montana where he lived a
simple life on very little money, without
electricity or running water. His original goal
was to move out to a secluded place and
become self-sufficient so that he could live
autonomously. He began to teach himself
survival skills such as tracking, edible plant
identification, and how to construct primitive
technologies such as bow drills. He stayed in
this cabin for more than 15 years. Who?
(Image in the next slide)

Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber

22. In the 2011 romantic comedy „Friends with
Benefits‟, Justin Timberlakes‟ character, a Los
Angeles transplant living in New York City,
repeatedly suggests to people, while flying
between the two locations, that modern
airplanes practically fly themselves, and that
Captain Sully‟s feat is less notable than it is
portrayed to be. Mila Kunis's character often
refutes Timberlake regarding this and is also
seen reading Captain Sully‟s Wikipedia article.
Captain Sully also does a cameo in the film as
a security guard.
Who is the „Captain Sully‟ mentioned here
and what is the feat?

Capt Chesley Sullenberger who executed the
water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the
Hudson River

23. Which ape species are known as the
hippies of the ape kingdom, because they are
a peaceful and affectionate species that is
more interested in making love than killing
each other? They also have a variety of sexual
behaviors to build social relationships.

24. After decades of waiting, physicists at
Trinity College, Dublin have captured a rare
scientific event on camera for the first time in
July 2013. Over several decades a number of
such events happened, but it was never
witnessed or captured on camera, which
would have definitively proved certain theory.
What did they capture / name the
experiment, which is recognized by the
Guinness World Records as the world's longest
continuously running laboratory experiment.

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Written round
6 questions
5 points each
10 bonus points if you get all 6 correct

In the US navy, there are certain „fraternities‟
of sailors those who achieve distinctions like
crossing the equator (people who do this are
called shellbacks). The following fraternities
are associated with which geographical
features?
a. The Imperial Order of the Golden Dragon
b. The Order of the Ditch
c. The Order of the Rock
d. The Golden Shellback
e. The Realm of the Czars
f. The Order of Magellan

• The Imperial Order of the Golden Dragon for sailors
who have crossed the International Date Line.
• The Order of the Ditch for sailors who have passed
through the Panama Canal.
• The Order of the Rock for sailors who have transited
the Strait of Gibraltar.
• The Golden Shellback for sailors who have crossed
the point where the Equator crosses the
International Date Line.
• The Realm of the Czars for sailors who crossed into
the Black Sea.
• The
Order
of
Magellan
for
sailors
who
circumnavigated the Earth.

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Closed theme
5 questions – 10 points each
+30/-5 for the theme after questions 1 & 2
+20/-5 for the theme after questions 3 & 4
+10/-5 for the theme after question 5

1. Al Kooper picked a famous phrase as the
name for his new jazz-rock band in 1967. He
could hardly have known how apt a choice it
was. The band has gone through more
disagreements, sackings and changes of
direction than most, with at least 140
musicians having been members at some
point.
Which
band?

2. What was the title of
this book of essays by
Aldous Huxley? It was
subtitled “an Enquiry
Into the Nature of Ideals
and Into the Methods
Employed
for
Their
Realization”

4. It is a pastry of French origin that is akin to a
highly
enriched
bread,
and
whose
high egg and butter content give it a rich and
tender crumb. It is "light and slightly puffy,
more or less fine, according to the proportion
of butter and eggs" It has a dark, golden, and
flaky crust, frequently accentuated by an egg
wash applied after proofing. Name it.
(Image in the next slide)

5. What is being described?
Rob often calls it a bromance, but one of the
bros just happens to be a woman. He said
that from the very beginning and I think it's
really an apt description. There's this idea that
a man and a woman can't be together on a
show especially without needing to be
together sexually or in love or whatever, and
this is really about the evolution of a friendship
and how that happens. Watching that should
be as much the story of this show as the
mysteries that you see week in and week out
about who killed who.
•

• "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" – Winston Churchill
• Correct quote: "I have nothing to offer but blood,
toil, tears and sweat."
• The end justifies the means.
• Often misattributed to Machiavelli's The Prince, in
which the idea appears, but not the phrase itself,
and to many other writers who repeat this aphorism.
• "Play it again, Sam“
• Actual quote: "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake,
play 'As Time Goes By'." – Ingrid Bergman
• Actual quote: "You played it for her, you can play it
for me. ... If she can stand to listen to it, I can. Play
it." – Humphrey Bogart

• Let them eat cake.
• This was never said by Marie Antoinette. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, in his 1783 autobiography Confessions, relates
that "a great princess" is said to have advised, with
regard to starving peasants, "S‟ils n‟ont plus de pain,
qu‟ils mangent de la brioche," commonly translated as
"If they have no bread, let them eat cake!" It has been
speculated that he was actually referring to Maria
Theresa of Spain. (Rousseau's manuscript was written in
1767, when Marie Antoinette was only 12 and would not
marry the future Louis XVI for another three years.)
• "Elementary, my dear Watson" – Sherlock Holmes
• This phrase was never uttered by the character in any
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's written works. Though
"Elementary," and "...my dear Watson." both do appear
near the beginning of The Crooked Man (1893), it is
the "...my dear Watson" that appears first,
and "Elementary" is the succinct reply to Watson's
exclamation a few lines of dialogue later. This is the
closest these four immortal words ever appear together
in the canon.

Written round
6 questions
3 parts for each question
5 points for each part
5 bonus points if you get all 3 parts correct
-5 if you attempt and fail to get at least one
part correct
• No negatives if you do not attempt
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a. What is the title of THIS song?
b. What incident prompted Hisham Fageeh to
record this song?
c. Who is the friend he is referring to?

a. No woman, no drive
b. The October 26 drive campaign in Saudi
Arabia
c. Alaa Wardi, who became famous for his A
capella renditions of Jiya Re & Pehla Nasha

2. Introduction to what? (a). Also identify b & c.
When Anu the sublime, the King of the Annunaki and
Bêl, the lord of heaven and earth, who fixed the
destiny of the country, had committed the whole of
mankind to Marduk, the son of Ea, the god of right,
when they made him great among the Egigi, had
pronounced the sublime name of ____b___, made it
great upon earth, had established in it an eternal
kingdom, the foundations of which are laid firm like
heaven and earth, at that time Anu and Bêl called
me, ____c____, the great prince, who fears God, to
give justice a status in the country, to destroy the
wicked and bad, that the strong should not overcome
the weak, that I might rise over the block-headed
ones; like Shamash, to illuminate the land and to
further the welfare of humanity, ____c____, the prince,
the one called by Bêl, am I.

a – Code of laws
b – Babylon
c- Hammurabi

3. Which country tops this list? Also identify A & B.
No.

Country

A

B

1

__________

221

501

2

Ukraine

81

196

3

China

34

25

4

France

47

100

5

Armenia

36

23

6

Hungary

52

111

7

United States
of America

79

123

8

India

34

76

9

Netherlands

30

79

10

Israel

39

49

Country –Russia
A – Number of Grand Masters
B – Number of International Masters

a) Scene from which documentary film?
b) Name the dance form.
c) Which epic provides the backdrop for this
dance?

a) Baraka
b) Kecak
c) Ramayana

5. Though the origin of the dish
X can be traced back to
the late 19th century, its
most commonly used recipe
is often taken from Nora
Ephron's book Heartburn
(pictured here). It was in the
news
recently
because
something (Z) was named
after this dish. It was later
renamed
after
another
eatable, Y. Identify X, Y and
Z.

X – Key lime pie
Y – Kit kat
Z – Android version 4.4

6.
a. Name the award.
b. Identify the structure and its exact location.
c. On what day is this given annually / what
does it commemorate?

• Quadriga award
• The quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate in
Berlin
• The award is presented every year on
German Unity Day (3 October), which
commemorates German reunification in
1990

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