1. The Columban Open Quiz 2010<br />Group C Prelims<br />SCHOOL : REG. NO. : TIME : 20 minutes <br />TEAM NAME :<br />Q1 A 7thcentury Italian monk used to reward children who memorized their prayers with salted treats that resembled arms twisted in prayer. What treat did he invent?<br />Ans:<br />Q2 During the period of the princely state accession, due to a state wide referendum, the court of Junagadh (in present day Gujarat) faced collapse. The Dewan of Junagadh, Sir __________ decided to invite the Government of India to intervene. Junagadh became a part of the Indian state of Saurashtra until 1 November 1956, when Saurashtra became part of Bombay state.<br /> <br />Ans:<br />Q3 In 1943, US Navy mechanical engineer Richard James was trying to find ways to support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas. His subsequent unrelated invention was given its name from a dictionary by his wife, and has also found use as a teaching tool, mobile radio antenna and a Space Shuttle experiment. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q4 He was born in January 2008 in Wermouth, England. He also goes by the surname der Krake. Various explanations have been offered, saying that brightness as well as an object's size, shape, and orientation create a potential bias in his controversial ability. Who?<br />Ans:<br />Q5 This construction group is the leading contractor for machine supply for the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium renovation. It is the oldest construction company in India. Its chairman and namesake has a net worth of $5.93 billion, is the single largest shareholder in Tata Sons, is the second richest Irish citizen and is known for his media shyness. Who/what company?<br />Ans:<br />Q6 What is still in use only in the United States, Burma, Belize and Liberia, where it is preferred for non-scientific use over the other system in use by the rest of the world?<br />Ans:<br />Q7 The University of Florida American football team credited the Robert Cade led research team’s X with their first Orange Bowl win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1967. Yellow Jackets coach Bud Carson, when asked why they lost, replied: quot;
We didn’t have X. That made the difference.quot;
What is X?<br />Ans:<br />Q8 In which movie did Heath Ledger make his final appearance?<br />Ans:<br />Q9 A frequently circulated story claims that Fleischer's choice of Y to give X strength was based on faulty calculations of its iron content. In the story, German scientist Dr. E. von Wolf misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of Y's iron content, leading to an iron value ten times higher than it should have been. The popularity of X helped boost sales of Y. Y consumption increased a whopping 33 percent in the United States between 1931 and 1936 as X gained popularity, saving the Y industry in the 1930s. Identify X and Y.<br />Ans:<br />Q10 The project's completion coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007–2010, and with vast overbuilding in the country; being mired in debt from its huge ambitions, the government was forced to seek multi-billion dollar bailouts from its neighbor. Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, it was renamed ________, said to honor President bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support. Fill in the blank.<br />Ans:<br />Q11 ________ was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Emmanuel quot;
Mikequot;
B. Aghassian and Elizabeth quot;
Bettyquot;
(née Dudley). His father is an Iranian of Armenian and Assyrian ethnicity who represented Iran in boxing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games before immigrating to the United States. ________’s mother, Betty, is a breast cancer survivor.<br />Ans:<br />Q12 Robert Chesebrough founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company to produce X. he travelled around New York State demonstrating his miracle product. In front of an audience he would burn his skin with acid or an open flame, then spread X on his injuries while demonstrating past injuries, healed, he claimed, by his miracle product. Chesebrough earned knighthood in 1883. Upon knighting him, Queen Victoria extolled his product's usefulness, proudly claiming that she quot;
used X every day.quot;
Chesebrough believed that X not only helped in healing but also led to rejuvenation and claimed his long healthy life of 96 years to be the result of using X everyday. Identify the miracle product X.<br />Ans:<br />Q13 In 1921, Dr. John A. Larson, developed a machine to record blood pressure, pulse and respiration. Give the name of this machine.<br />Ans:<br />Q14 If the Ballon d’Or corresponds to the FIFA World Cup, then the David Dixon Award corresponds to what?<br />Ans:<br />Q15 Identify the ritual:<br /> Leader: Ringa pakia! Slap the hands against the thighs! <br /> Uma tiraha! Puff out the chest. <br /> Turi whatia! Bend the knees! <br /> Hope whai ake! Let the hip follow! <br /> Waewae takahia kia kino! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!<br /> Leader: Ka mate, ka mate 'I die, I die! <br /> Team: Ka ora' Ka ora' I live, I live!<br />Ans:<br />Q16 In the world of television, how do we better know Voice Input Child Identicant?<br />Ans:<br />Q17 Vinson Massif : Antarctica :: ___________ : Africa.<br />Ans:<br />Q18 He holds the Lucasian Professor chair, a position once held by Isaac Newton. His bestselling book remained on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. He is also the best known patient currently of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Who?<br />Ans:<br />Q19 On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of X, using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. The image on the reproduction, non peer-reviewed, would closely match that of X with differences explained as the result of natural fading over the centuries..But according to noted sindonologist Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the Padua University, quot;
the image in discussion does not match the main fundamental properties of X, in particular at thread and fiber level but also at macroscopic level.quot;
Identify X<br />Ans:<br />Q20 Originally introduced as the New Yardbirds, the group named themselves after Keith Moon and John Entwistle, drummer and bassist for The Who, respectively, suggested that a possible supergroup containing themselves, Jeff Beck, and the group’s guitarist would go down like a , a term Entwistle had used to describe a bad gig. The group deliberately dropped the 'a' at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, to prevent “thick Americans” from mispronouncing the name.<br />Ans:<br />Q21 This 1947 invention resulted out of a Hungarian-born physicist's efforts at improving the resolution of electron microscope images. Pictures of a toy-train and a bird were transformed using this technology in 1962 - its first successful application. It was given a name derived from the Greek words for 'complete' and 'message'. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q22 This feat was first achieved in 1875 and was not repeated till 48 years later. It is often described as a battle of brain and brawn against tide and temperature. Statistics released by the CSA, the governing body, reveal that only about 7% of those who attempt this feat are able to complete it. What feat are we talking of? <br />Ans:<br />Q23 The Fujita Scale, designed by Theodore Fujita has points ranging from F0 to F6. These points represent the situations Moderate, Significant, Severe, Devastating, Incredible and Inconceivable. The lowest point on this scale covers damage to chimneys and signboards while Incredible includes such things as cars turning into spinning missiles. The scale is used to measure a natural phenomenon that derives its name from the Latin word for thunder. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q24 Pushpa Kamal Dahal assumed a name meaning the 'Fierce One' before initiating an armed struggle based out of Thabang in 1996. What name did he/she assume?<br />Ans:<br />Q25 The name derives from the Abri de __________ (French: rock shelter of ___________) near the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in southwest France, where the first specimen was found. They were the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic in Europe. The earliest known remains of __________-like humans have been dated to 35,000 years before present.<br />Ans:<br />Q26 The name for it is derived from the Greek phrase meaning ‘under one’. Conventionally used in yoking two words or two halves of the same word separated by lineation. Also used in compound nouns when they perform an adjectival function. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q27 Traditionally, the last person to finish this is called the Lantern Rouge or the red lantern (because it hangs off the back of a train). What are we talking about?<br />Ans:<br />Q28 Where would you find the Malleus, Incus and Stapes?<br />Ans:<br />Q29 Karl Friedrich Louis ___________ served in the dangerous role of local tax collector in the German town of Apolda, and ran the dog pound. With access to dogs of many breeds, he aimed to create a breed that would be ideal for protecting him during his collections, which took him through many bandit-infested areas. He set out to breed a new type of dog that, in his opinion, would be the perfect combination of strength, loyalty, intelligence and ferocity.<br />Fill in the blank.<br />Ans:<br />Q30 Who was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx?<br />Ans:<br />Q31 Where will you find the following (where is underlined for a reason):<br />Direhorse (or Pa'li), Mountain Banshee (or Ikran), Great Leonopteryx (or Toruk), Hammerhead Titanothere (or ’Angtsìk), Hexapede (or Yerik), Prolemuris Thanator (or Palulukan), Viperwolf (or Nantang), Helicoradian (or Loreyu), Obesus rotundus (or Rumut), Pseudocycas altissima (or Tsyorina'wll), The Hometrees (or Kelutrel), The Tree of Souls (or Ayvitrayä Ramunong), The Tree of Voices (or Utral Aymokriyä), Woodsprites (or Atokirina’) ?<br />Ans:<br />Q32 They are fictional megastructures (radii: 8000 km) and superweapons in the eponymous series. They are referred to as quot;
Installationsquot;
by their AI monitors, as Sacred Rings by the Covenant, and are collectively referred to as quot;
the Arrayquot;
by their creators, the Forerunners, who built the rings to contain and study the Flood, an infectious alien parasite. The rings also act together as a weapon of last resort; when fired, the rings kill any sentient life capable of falling prey to the Flood, starving the parasite of its food. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q33 Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first prototype in 1963, with the assistance of his colleague Bill English. Although called a bug, English later named it _______ with reference to the wire that came out from it. <br />Ans:<br />Q34 Fill in the blanks - Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh ___________ ___________. (Hint- Think current affairs)<br />Ans: <br />Q35 A cricket ground in Pakistan was renamed after him in 1974 because of a rousing speech he delivered at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in favour of Pakistan pursuing nuclear weapons. Who?<br />Ans: <br />-------- Audio-visual questions --------<br />Ans 36:<br />Ans 37:<br />Ans 38:<br />Ans 39:<br />Ans 40:<br />