This document contains 19 multiple choice quiz questions about various topics including movies, world leaders, famous models, companies, scientific theories, and historical figures. It provides context and clues for each question but does not include the answer choices or solutions. The questions cover a wide range of topics and range from identifying people, places, things, and events to explaining origins, relationships and concepts.

1. SILHOUETTES 2018
GENERAL QUIZ: PRELIMS
24 Feb 2018

2. Q1. Image & Saying
• Shoes seen during the Oz
Open in Melbourne
• Specific location?
• Inspired two sayings in
Melbourne.
• Give me any one.
• ( 1 MARK FOR EACH PART)

3. Q2. Corporation
• Japanese bitcoin
wallet and exchange
service headquartered
in Tokyo, Japan,
founded by Koichiro
Wada and Yusuke
Otsuka.
• Had a massive theft of
NEM tokens which it
agreed to compensate.
• Identify the company
from its redacted logo.

4. Q3. Movie & Director
• In the TV series The
Simpsons "Any Given
Sundance” episode, Lisa
Simpson enters a
documentary about her
family into the Sundance
Film Festival.
• The title of this episode
recalls which sports movie?
• Who directed that movie?
• 1 MARK FOR EACH PART

5. Q4. Ahem!!Herr Kapitan?
• Oxford educated
• Ambassador to
Switzerland
• A provincial minister
• President of a sporting
body
• Best known for being
one of only 14 globally
and one of 3 exclusive
within this 14.

6. Q5. Just one letter
• Which name, a single
letter, is given to the
theory that unifies all
version of the
superstring theory that
was first suggested by
Edward Witten in 1995,
which led to the
‘second superstring
revolution’?

7. Q6. Haute designer
• Of which American
designer who especially
worked with stained glass,
do you see a typical lamp?
• Founded in Brooklyn,
Connecticut in 1837 as a
"stationery and fancy goods
emporium", the store
initially sold a wide variety
of office items.
• By 1862, it was supplying
the Union Army with
swords , flags and surgical
implements.

8. Q7. Striptease
• In 1943, Walker was drafted into
the US Army and served in Italy
as an intelligence officer in charge
of an Allied camp for 10,000
German POWs.
• He was discharged as a first
lieutenant in 1947. He began
doing Spider, a one-panel series
for The Saturday Evening Post,
about a lazy, laid-back college
student.
• When he decided he could make
more money doing a multi-panel
comic strip, Spider morphed
into ………….. What?

9. Q8. What’s in a name?
• The ………. dinar was
the Iraqi currency in
circulation prior to the 1990
Gulf War.
• The reason for the adjective
“xxxx" is unknown, but
there are two possible
explanations.
• The first possible
explanation is that
the printing plates for the
currency came from xxxx,
although the notes were
actually printed elsewhere.
• The second possible
explanation is that prior to
the Gulf War, Iraq was
historically a low inflation
country, similar to xxxx.
• It is still legal tender in the
regions shaded.

10. Q9. Just Expand.

11. Q10. Where the hell?
• Largest empire in history
with respect to
population
• Controlled 44% of existing
humanity at its peak.
• Name Empire OR Ruler
under whom it reached
its greatest expanse.
( Name & Regnal number
both needed)

12. Q11. Couture
• Richard Avedon photo of
Dovima in 1955 for
Harper’s Bazaar.
• She was one of the
world’s most famous
models, and he was one
of the most famous
fashion photographers.
• The iconic gown was
designed for Dior by
which legendary
designer?

13. Q12. Bizness
• In 2011 its CEO suggested
there are more meanings than
just the "millet and rice” of his
company’s name.
• He linked one part of the
name to the Buddhist concept
that "a single grain of rice of a
Buddhist is as great as a
mountain" suggesting that the
company wants to work from
the little things, instead of
starting by striving for
perfection.
• The other half referred to the
obstacles encountered in
starting the company.
• In 2012 its innovative new
'Rifle' processor has given
weight to several sources
linking it to the "millet and
rifle” revolutionary idiom
popularized during the Second
Sino-Japanese War.
• Which company?

14. Q13. Elections!! What’s that?
• Two world leaders
• Both unelected
• Identify
• 1 MARK FOR EACH
CORRECT ANSWER

15. Q14. Where in the world?
• Using data from the
Nevada Geodetic Labs,
Chris Milliner a
geophysicist at Caltech
claims that relentless
rains during Hurricane
Harvey in 2017 has
caused which major US
city to sink by 2 cm?

16. Q15. A bloody campaign
• "In view of what he [Moseley] might still have
accomplished … his death might well have been the
most costly single death of the War to mankind
generally”- Einstein
• Because of Moseley's death and after much lobbying
by Ernest Rutherford, the British government instituted
a policy of no longer allowing its prominent and
promising scientists to enlist for combat duty in the
armed forces of the Crown.
• Which campaign did he get killed in?
• The well known name derives from an Italian form of
the Greek for ‘Beautiful City’? ( IMAGE Follows)

17. • Moseley was likely to
get the Nobel Prize the
next year for his work.
Eventually no one was
given the prize that
year.

18. Q16. What’s the good name?
• The son (b. 1945) is the
author of books such as “
Godel, Escher, Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid”.
• The father( d. 1990) was
joint winner of the 1991
Nobel in Physics.
• What surname did they
share- one that has
gained a huge recognition
due to a very successful
series.

19. Q17. Looking through the …
• The translation into English of Natural
History written by Pliny the Elder of Rome shows
a few sentences on the subject of a volcanic glass
discovered in Ethiopia by a Roman explorer &
named for him.
• It is the rock formed as a result of quickly
cooled lava, which is the parent material.
• Tektites were once thought by many to be similar
glass produced by lunar volcanic eruptions.
• What name is given to this dense volcanic glass?

20. Q19. 5 pieces and a Man
Identify all 5 artists and the man who owns these(Tie breaker).

21. And that’s that……
Scores and finalists in a bit