15th GQC Trophy- Constantinople 2023.pptx

Goldgate Quiz Club
The 15th GQC Trophy- Under 15
Constantinople 2023

Our players…
1. Rajeev Kapoor, Kolkata, India
2. Christian Factual, Liverpool, UK
3. Juan Sebestián Agüero, Barcelona, Spain
4. Ravishankar Ranothale, Pune, India
5. Enes Emre Yeliz, Ankara, Turkey
6. Jacques Choinstóc, Lyon, France
7. Rashid Verhoek, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
8. Louis van Aamslt, Rotterdam, Netherlands
9. Bastian Müller, Frankfurt, Germany
10. Arkadij Ömlesgogt Normandskol, Vienna, Austria

Our Quizmasters…
Raymond Jacobs, UK
An eager quizzer, Raymond has finished his Masters in both Biology and Physics in
the University of Manchester. He is a EFL League Two level footballer, playing for
Wimbledon. He is also an eager cricketer and loves hanging out with his 2 dogs,
Ray and Blake. Age 23.
Dr. Karl Haushofer, Germany
One of the greatest quizmasters yet, he has been renowned for his brain twisting
style of questions to stump the quizzers. He has been awarded a PhD in
Chemistry from Cambridge University. He plays for the EF League two club
Stockport. Age 35.

The Rounds
1. Written Round
2. Who?
3. Sport
4. Connect
5. Written Round II
6. Where?
7. Mixed Bag
8. Double Trouble
9. Why?
10. Drama

Rules
 Each person has to type down their answer in the tablet given to
them. Any spelling mistakes will show
 They can submit their answers by pressing the “go” button and review
all their answers at the end before pressing the “finish” button
 A correct answer will fetch the player 1 point while an incorrect
answer will decrease 1 point from their tally
 A blank answer will not be marked
 There are 5 questions in this round
 If a participant gets all right answers, they get +5 bonus points
 If a participant gets 3 or more right answers, they get +3 bonus points

He/She is an Austrian novelist, playwright,
translator, poet, film director, and
screenwriter. He/She was awarded the 2019
Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential
work that with linguistic ingenuity has
explored the periphery and the specificity of
human experience”. He/She is considered to
be one of the most influential and original
German-language writers in the second half
of the 20th century.
Who is being described here?

Which Indian born British novelist has
written the novels “Midnight’s Children”
and “The Satanic Verses”?

Who is this?
(hint: the person’s awards are mentioned)

According to Greek Mythology, which titan
was punished to hold up the heavens and the
sky? (bonus +1 points for the war whose
result was this)

Hidetoshi Nakata
Japanese Footballer

Peter Handke
Austrian novelist

(Sir) David Attenborough
British Presenter

Rules
 This is a buzzer round
 The players need to identify who is being spoken about in the
following lines of description
 Either a quote, description or a famous act done by them will be
displayed
 A correct identification will add 1 point to their tally while a wrong
answer would add a negative 1 to their tally
 Total 5 questions

He left his famous work, the “Entombment”
incomplete due to the shortage of a
particular shade of blue. Identify him
(bonus 1 point for identification of colour)

This South African seamer, known for his
effective death bowling, starred in a Super
Over on his IPL debut for Kings XI Punjab
against CSK in 2010, within hours of landing
in India. Who is this enthusiastic cricketer?

She is the author of the world-famous
Swedish novel series, Pippi
Longstocking. Who is she?

He is the current CEO of the world
famous company Alphabet Inc. He is an
Indian-American based out of Andhra
Pradesh. Who is he?

He is a retired Moroccan middle-
distance runner. He is the current world
record holder for the 1500 metres and
mile events, and the former world
record holder in the 2000 metres. Who
is he?

Rules
 The players need to attempt the following questions on sports and
famous sportspeople
 A correct answer fetches 1 point, while a wrong one gets a negative 1
point
 If a player presses the buzzer but fails to answer, 3 points will be
removed from their tally

Jerseys of Paolo Maldini (3), Kaka (22) and
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (11) are displayed with
glory in which football stadium?
(bonus points for which club they all played for)

San Siro Stadium, Milan
AC Milan

Which football club’s manager is Carlo
Ancelotti, president is Florentino Perez
and is called Los Blancos and La Casa
Blanca?

Which is the easternmost city of the
United States of America which sponsors
2 teams from the same city in the Major
League baseball (MLB)?

Los Angeles
Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers

Regarded as one of the best third
basemen ever, who was born in Santo
Domingo in Dominican Republic and is
the latest addition to the 3000+ hits
club in Major League Baseball (MLB)?

One of the IPL’s most successful franchises
has a golden lining on their jerseys. By what
iconic monument in their respective city was
this inspired?
(bonus points for which franchise)

Bandra-Worli Sea Link
Mumbai Indians

The backstory for this is, traditionally, the
title of "World's Greatest Athlete" has been
given to the person who wins this event. This
began when Gustav V of Sweden told Jim
Thorpe, "Sir, you are the world's greatest
athlete" after Thorpe won this event at
the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. The 100 m
record holder in this type of event is Damian
Warner from Canada. This includes four runs,
three jumps and three throws. This is the
inspirer for a famous French company. What
athletic event is being talked about here?

Which edition of the
FIFA Men’s Football World
Cup is being talked
about here?

1934 FIFA World Cup
The tournament’s second edition

In the 2003 ICC Cricket Men’s World Cup,
hosted in parts of Southern Africa, which
non-full member or an associate
member of the International Cricket
Council posted the best ever
performance yet by an associate team?
(Hint: This country was one of the hosts)

Kenya
They made it till the semi-finals

This committee was founded in 1894
when Pierre de Coubertin, a
French pedagogue and historian, sought to
promote international understanding through
sporting competition. The first edition of this
event was held in _____ in ____ and
attracted just 245 competitors, of whom
more than 200 were ______, and only 14
countries were represented.
(Hint: The opening ceremony of the first ________
the Panathenaic Stadium)

Which committee is being talked about?
What is the event?
 Bonus Points for filling the blanks in correctly
 Bonus 10 points for naming the speciality of the stadium shown in the
picture

IOC, SUMMER Olympic
Games
Blank 1- Athens
Blank 2- 1896
Blank 3- Greece
Blank 4- Modern Olympic Games (optional)
Speciality of the Panathenaic Stadium- Only stadium in the world made
entirely of marble

Shown are a few statistics of the 1920
Summer Olympic Games. Where was it held?
Bonus points for name of
Football Club from that
area

Rules
 The players need to attempt the following questions
 The questions will be based on connecting the two pictures / more
pictures / words together with a meaningful relation
 Identification would fetch 1 point, a wrong identification would be
given a -1
 Without the right identification, the player would not be able to
proceed toward the connection
 A right connection would give the player 2 points while a wrong
connection would decrease 2 points

Answer
Identification: BRITISH AIRWAYS, A STILL FROM “FUELLED
BY LOVE” / HANDKERCHIEF OF A FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Connection: British Airways, in 2016, posted a viral video
FUELLED BY LOVE which showed a flight attendant’s kindness
towards an old and lone lady in business class. The lady
invites the attendant, Helena, to her house and then
presents her with the gift, a handkerchief with her name on
it.

What duality is common
between all the pictures
shown? How is the 2nd picture
different from the other two?

Answer
Identification: EOIN MORGAN, ED JOYCE, BOYD RANKIN, all
cricketers
Connection: Morgan, Joyce and Rankin all played for England
and Ireland in international cricket. Joyce is different as he
first played for England and then switched to Ireland,
contrary to the other two.

Answer
Identification: FLAG OF ANGUILLA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Connection: According to a Bloomberg report, due to skyrocketing
interest in artificial intelligence, Anguilla was expected to profit
in 2023 from a surge in demand for web addresses ending with the
country's top-level domain .ai. The total number of registrations
of .ai domain names had already doubled in 2022, and according
to Vince Cate, who has managed the top-level domain, Anguilla
will bring in as much as $30 million in domain registration fees for
2023.

Who is this?
(Hint: He is the predecessor of
“The Contemporary Relevance of
Ancient Indian Wisdom”)
His title would suffice for the
Answer. His real name would fetch
+3 bonus points

He/She is a French physicist noted for his/her
experimental work on quantum
entanglement. He/She was awarded the
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John
Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments
with entangled photons, establishing the
violation of Bell inequalities and
pioneering quantum information science”
Who is being described here?

Real name being George Gordon, who once
brought in a bear into an inn instead of a
dog, to express his unhappiness with the rule
no dogs allowed and has written the novel
Don Juan and poems such as Darkness and
Manfred?

Who is this?
(Hint: He runs the
famous
YouTube channel
Veritasium)

According to Roman Mythology, which dwarf
planet was named after the goddess of corn
and harvest?

13th Dalai Lama
Thupten Gyatso

Alain Aspect
French Physicist and Nobel Laurate

Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron

Derek Muller
TV Presenter of Veritasium

Rules
 In this round, participants have to answer the question
 The question will be relating to a place
 The description of the place, famous landmarks in that place or a
famous person/act in that place will be given
 A correct answer will give +2 points while a wrong answer would take
away 2 points from the tally

Which city is being described in Harper’s New
Monthly Magazine (Sept 1870 edition)?

Commonly known as just _____, is a market town and civil parish in
the _____ in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of
England. It is situated on the River ____, 91 miles (146 km) north-west
of London, 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km)
south-west of Warwick. The town is the southernmost point of
the Arden area on the edge of the Cotswolds. In the 2021 census _____ had
a population of 30,495.
_____ was originally inhabited by Britons before Anglo-Saxons and
remained a village before the lord of the manor, John of Coutances, set
out plans to develop it into a town in 1196. In that same year, _____ was
granted a charter from King Richard I to hold a weekly market in the town,
giving it its status as a market town. As a result, _____ experienced an
increase in trade and commerce as well as urban expansion.
_____ is a popular tourist destination, owing to its status as the birthplace
and burial place of playwright and poet William Shakespeare; it receives
approximately 2.7 million visitors a year. The Royal Shakespeare
Company resides in _____'s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Which place properly fills in the blanks?
Bonus Points for:
a) Name of famous bridge in this place
b) The period whose symbol is a red and white rose which began with Henry VII

Stratford-upon-Avon
a) Clopton Bridge
b) Tudor Period

This Polish City hosted the 2008 UNFCCC
conference. It also houses Lake Malta, the
Croissant Museum, and the Citadel Park. The
City’s International Fare(pictured here in
1927) ranked in the 1930s as Europe’s fourth-
largest organizer of international trade
events. Which city?
Bonus points for full form of UNFCCC

Poznan
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Market Island, co-owned by Sweden and
Finland is only 350 m long. But it would take
you 2 days to walk the entire length. How
come?

Time zones
Or time differences

Which landlocked country surrounded by
South Africa was called Basutoland till
independence in 1966? Basutoland emerged as
a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I in
1822. Moshoeshoe, a son of Mokhachane, a
minor chief of the Bakoteli lineage, formed
his clan and became a chief around 1804.
Between 1820 and 1823, he and his followers
settled at the Butha-Buthe Mountain, joining
with former adversaries in resistance against
the Lifaqane associated with the reign of
Shaka Zulu from 1818 to 1828.
Bonus points for Country’s Capital

Rules
 In this round, participants have to answer the question
 The question will be a random question or a connect or identify
 The question format is not set
 A total of 5 questions will be asked, all on the buzzer
 A whopping 10 points will be added for a correct answer, but for a
wrong answer, it becomes -15. So be careful!
 If the contestant who presses the buzzer first gets it wrong, it is open
for one last attempt for the other contestants to press the buzzer and
answer it for +5/-10.

Connect the 4 pictures… no identification for 1
and 2 pictures
[Sports geeks would know the answer]
1
2
3
4

Chemistry Styles
in FIFA 23 / FIFA 22 (video game)

Only in 1886 did French chemist Henri
Moissan isolate elemental _____ using low-
temperature electrolysis, a process still
employed for modern production. Industrial
production of _______ gas for uranium
enrichment, its largest application, began
during the Manhattan Project in World War II.
Which element fills in the blank correctly?
Bonus points for atomic number

X is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform
which allows communication through voice calls, video
calls, text messaging, and media and files.
Communication can be private or take place in virtual
communities called "servers". A server is a collection of
persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be
accessed via invite links. As of 2023, the service has
over 350 million registered users and over 150 million
monthly active users. It is primarily used by gamers,
although the share of users interested in other topics is
growing. As of September 2023, X is the 35th most
visited website in the world with 23.42% of its traffic
coming from the United States.
What is “X” ?

X is a mini Wikipedia website for all famous
TV shows, movies or series/books in the
world. This offers a wide range of spoilers,
explanations and details in the characters
personalities and relationships. X was in the
top 50 most visited sites in the world. It was
founded in 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jim
Wales and Angela Beesley.
What is “X” ?

Identify the above site in Puerto Rico, the
world’s largest single aperture telescope for
over half a century. It was the location for the
climatic face-off in Goldeneye. It is also
known as the National Astronomy and
Ionosphere Center and is owned by the USA
Government. The architect is William E.
Gordon.
Identify this site.

Rules
 The participants, before viewing the question will get the choice to
double their points if they get it right or just keep it at the normal.
 If they double it, the magnitude is double their current tally / -50
points.
 If they keep it at the normal, it is +10/-5
 There are 5 questions
 All questions will be on the buzzer

Name the scientist who worked with
Rutherford in England. He created a tube
with Walther Muller which formed the basis of
a hand held ionizing radiation counter. Along
with Ernest Marsden, conducted the famous
______–Marsden experiment (also known as
the "gold foil experiment"). This process
allowed them to count alpha particles and led
Rutherford to start thinking about the
structure of the atom.
Bonus points for nationality

Associated with Bond over the years, this car made its first
appearance in Goldfinger. It also appeared in the latest
Bond movie, No time to Die. In 2013, the car featured on a
"British Auto Legends" postage stamp issued by the Royal
Mail. It is designed by Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria T.
Superleggera. Standard equipment on the ____ included
reclining seats, wool pile carpets, electric windows, twin
fuel tanks, chrome wire wheels, oil cooler, magnesium-
alloy body built to Superleggera patent technique, full
leather trim in the cabin and a fire extinguisher. All models
had two doors and 2+2 seating configuration. The boot lids
differed slightly between the _____ and the _______.
Bonus points for filling the blanks

What term is used for the spot from where
the fastest driver in qualifying starts the main
race? In a motorsports race, this spot is
usually the best and "statistically the most
advantageous" starting position on the track.

This immensely popular American born
Chinese athlete caused Weibo’s server to
crash after her gold medal win. Born in the
United States, she has competed for China in
halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since
2019. Name her.
Bonus points for her sport

Ailing (Eiling) Gu
Freestyle Skiing

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri
Lankan author _______ won the 2022 booker
prize for fiction. He became the second Sri
Lankan author to win, following Michael
Ondaatje, who won in 1992 with the English
Patient. The Booker-winning book tells the
story of a photographer, who wakes up dead.
With no idea who killed him, he has seven
days (moons) to contact his favourite people
to lead them to a hidden cache of photos of
civil war atrocities that will rock the nation.

Rules
 In this round, quizzers will be shown an event or anything like that
and asked a reasoning behind it.
 There are totally 4 questions.
 2 questions to the teams 1-5, 2 questions to teams 6-10.
 Questions are on the buzzer.
 Magnitude is +1/-2.
 If a wrong answer is given, 2 points will be cut from the tally and the
question will move on to the person who presses the buzzer next for
+1/-1.

Magna Carta is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King
John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June
1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the
unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised
the protection of church rights, protection for the barons
from illegal imprisonment, access to swift and impartial
justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the
Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25
barons.
Why was the Magna Carta sealed?
Bonus points for who sealed it & which war it lead to

The charter was annulled by Pope
Innocent III due to neither sides
standing by their commitments. This
lead to the 1st Baron’s war.

What is the contribution or why is Monty Norman
famous in the industry of movies?

Responsible for the theme of James
Bond movies.

The name for a subatomic particle “quark” was
chosen by Murray Gellman. Why?

He came across the term in James
Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake.

The yale university has a century-old tradition of
making a live animal as the mascot. Why did this
peculiar tradition start?

Andrew Graves from the Class of
1892 purchased an English bulldog
and named him Handsome Dan. This
dog was later adopted to live as a
live animal mascot. The tradition
hasn’t yet broken.

Rules
 The best round in the quiz’s rich history of 15 years.
 In this round, 1 question, extremely hard, will be asked to the
quizzers.
 If the person gets it right, they get +100. If wrong, then -250. The
parameters are extreme and is therefore called DRAMA.
 All the Best.

This term, originating from one of the token
used in lieu of currency in a game of poker, is
used to refer to stocks of high quality companies
that are safe investments and ensure stable
growth. It can also be defined as capital stock of
a stock corporation with a national reputation
for quality, reliability, and the ability to operate
profitably in both good and bad times.
What is this term?

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