WikiBytes General Quiz at Exebit 2015 by Anand

WikiBytes
A GENERAL QUIZ FOR TEAMS OF TWO
9:30am on Sunday, 15/Mar/2015 @ CS24
QM : Anand R Aiyer (9789903586)
“We believe that the Quiz is at hand”

PRELIMS
(educated chimps may get you right answers,
points carry over to finals)

1
Identify this movie, named after a catch phrase popularised by host Bamber Gasgoine on the
show University Challenge. (Well begun is half done)

2
"The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations,
religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road”
X is is a book worked at three levels. It is a tale of adventure...It is the
drama of a boy having entirely his boy's own way... and it is the
mystical exegesis of this pattern of behaviour..."
Give X.

3
Identify the location of this monument

Arlington Memorial, Washington DC

4
Free Speech or public indecency, you decide. Famous mugshot.

5
loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry, it is the way of the
Samurai warrior must conduct himself.
X is typified by eight virtues:
Righteousness ( 義 gi)
Courage ( 勇 yū)
Benevolence ( 仁 jin)
Respect ( 礼 rei)
Sincerity ( 誠 makoto)
Honour ( 名誉 meiyo)
Loyalty ( 忠義 chūgi)
Self-Control (jisei)

6Tinder Fantasy for the young and old.
ID the two fictional characters.

Hermione Granger
Carrie Bradshaw

8
In Baseball, what is a Grand Slam?

a grand slam is a home run hit with
all three bases occupied by
baserunners ("bases loaded"),
thereby scoring four runs

9
Identify this UNESCO World Heritage site

10
Identify this composition and the composer

Bhaja Govindam
Adi Sankaracharya

11
Started in 1987 and located at MCC grounds in Chetpet. Connect and Identify.

12
The term ____ comes from the Spanish ____, which means against
and in this case short for against the revolution. Some rebels disliked
being called so, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative
terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order.
Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos. Peasant
sympathizers also called the rebels los primos or the cousins. From the
mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to
portray the movement as the "democratic resistance," members started
describing themselves as la resistencia.
During the war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua,
these ____ carried out many human rights violations, and evidence
suggests that these were systematically committed as an element of
warfare strategy. What Term?
(you have probably heard in a similar setting but different context)

14
Identify this Opera singer from the photograph

15
A non-alcoholic mixed drink traditionally made with ginger ale, a splash
of grenadine and garnished with a maraschino cherry.
Often served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails.
“The saccharine, sweet, icky drink? Yes, well...those were created in
the probably middle 1930s by The Brown Derby Restaurant in
Hollywood and I had nothing to do with it. But, all over the world, I am
served that. People think it's funny. I hate them. Too sweet!”

16
Identify the Actor and the Role

18
This show featured a computer beating human champions

19
What does the following painting depict? Bonus for painter

John Singer Sargent
Their eyes are bandaged, blinded
by the effect of the gas

20
What is the amount to which this cheque is made out to? Explain the significance?

One Hexadecimal Dollar
Corrections or Suggestions

25
I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break,
but I've got an awful lot to live for

Lou Gehrig
Farewell to Baseball

Welcome to the FINALS
● Chennai Style Pounce and Bounce
● +10/0 on the bounce, +15/-10 on pounce
● Play Fair
● Chimp as much as possible

Breaking the Ice
with Sport
and Gamefowl

Which famous moment of the 1992 World Cup?

Jonty Rhodes run out of
Inzamam-ul-Haq

Which country's National Flag has this bird on it?

Identify this Sufi saint said to have introduced the coffee plant
to India by bringing seven raw beans from a port X in Yemen
while coming back from Hajj. Also X

First woman to climb Mt. Everest. Identify.

The Ulnar nerve is the largest
unprotected nerve in the human
body, so injury is common. This
nerve is directly connected to the
little finger, and the adjacent half
of the ring finger, supplying the
palmar side of these fingers,
including both front and back of
the tips, perhaps as far back as
the fingernail beds.
The peculiar sensation one feels
when it is struck gives rise to a
term _____ _____.
This name is thought to be a pun,
based on the sound resemblance
of the name of a bone the nerve
runs along.

What scene is being depicted here?

This cheese gets its name from its
place of origin ____ a small town
50 km north of Calcutta.
Available in two varieties — plain
(white in colour) and smoked
(brown in colour) it comes in small
rounds and is well-salted to be
stored. “They are great for
shaving finely over a salad, pasta
or risotto but if you want to eat it
as it is, it will need soaking
overnight in water to remove
some of the salt.

Literature and
other predelictions

“All happy families are alike;
each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll
probably want to know is where I was born, and what my
lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied
and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind
of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know
the truth”

“Mother died today. Or maybe,
yesterday; I can't be sure."

Identify the subject and artist, considered
by the artist to be part of the infernal
trinity along with Bacon and Locke

Identify the play and the number

Mandatory obscure flag question (or not). In this book by Ralph
Leighton, he describes what is his friend X's “last adventure”, an
attempt to reach this country at the centre of Asia. X died of
cancer before the Visas arrived. His daughter Michelle made the
trip. Seen below with the head of state.

Located at the head of Rampart Row in the Kala Ghoda area,
a street of galleries, restaurants and boutiques that branches
off the arterial Mahatma Gandhi Road in South Mumbai,
Identify this iconic music shop founded in the late 1930s by
Suleman Nensey. It features in the 1999 Salman Rushdie
novel, The Ground beneath her feet.

What tradition started as result of a
recurring gag on this comic?
Name the comic

Sadie Hawkins Day
Lil' Abner by Al Capp

1. Identify
“O crassa ingenia,
O caecos coeli spectatores.”
Identify this man
of many talents

Muhammed ibn Musa
Al-Khwarizmi

Identify this distant cousin of
Thomas Edison
Inventions include Flame
throwing trumpets, Rocket
Frisbees, Motorised Pogo sticks
He met Turing during the war.
Famous for his 1937 masters
thesis that laid the foundations
Of the field he is most famously
associated with

Connect by naming the missing fourth
member of this exhaustive list

Identify the individual circled.
What position is he serving on the team.

Ice Cream Koan
A cocky novice once said to Stallman: “I can guess
why the editor is called Emacs, but why is the
justifier called Bolio?” Stallman replied forcefully:
“Names are but names, ‘Emack & Bolio's’ is the
name of a popular ice cream shop in Boston-town.
Neither of these men had anything to do with the
software.”
His question answered, yet unanswered, the
novice turned to go, but Stallman called to him ...
What did Stallman say
(to complete the koan)?

Emack and Bolio had nothing to do
with the ice-cream shop either.
The store was named after two
homeless men

Old Chestnuts
And some
Aspirational

Olympic Gold Medalist,
Pediatrician,
Bestselling author
“Trust yourself.
You know more than
you think you do...”
Identify and
Name the work

Dr. Benjamin Spock
The common sense book
of baby and child care

Forrest observes that everytime the man in the Flag shirt said
the F word, people cheered. Tribute to which icon?

Identify the composer
(old MQC wine in new bottle)

Leakey's Angels
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birutė Galdikas — sent by anthropologist Louis
Leakey to study primates in their natural environments.
They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans respectively.

Tippi Hedren
Melanie Griffith
Dakota Johnson
3 Generations who have appeared
on the Tonight Show

Bah'ai Houses of Worship
Lotus Temple in New Delhi

Whose love story soon to be a
Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie

Identify the subject
and the artist

Give the common name for the species Canis Aureus

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