AFSU Sanskriti General Quiz 2015

JUdgement, the General Quiz
of AFSU Sanskriti 2015

In Gotham by Gaslight, a DC Elseworlds
publication, a Victorian-era Batman fights
against Jack the Ripper. The story shows Bruce
Wayne to be studying in Vienna where he
strikes a friendship with X.
(picture shown in next slide)
Who is X?

“...the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus
spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest,
a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I
told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of
the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that
the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished
the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to
fast‐track still more of his many candidates for
canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to
have represented the Devil pro bono.”
--- Y in his memoir.
ID the "departed fanatic" and Y.

A.S. Knowland's "______" reads:
"So that the swastika and the eagle
Might spring from the blood-red-soil,
Bombs were sown into the earth at _____,
Whose only havest was a calculated slaughter."
John Edgell Rickword's “To the Wife of Any Non-Intervention
Statesman” reads:
Euzkadi’s supply the ore mines
To feed the Nazi dogs of war:
_____’s thermite rain perspire
In doom on Oxford’s dreaming spires
Already Hull and Cardiff blaze,
And Paul’s Rocks gray dome to the blast
Or air-torpedoes screaming past."
What event is being described? How was it immortalised?

Dibakar Banerjee's reply to criticism about something he
did not depict in Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! despite
taking great pains to recreate war-time Calcutta:
“American GIs, Japanese air raids made it [the film] all the
more exciting...It started in late 1942 but by the time it
blew in the face of the country it was late 1943. That’s
when they realised that the disaster of this nature was
happening. My story ends in early 1943. It is not part of
the story but there are few hints for those who really
know Calcutta. That way the independence struggle is
also not part of it. I am not making a historical.”
What did he not show?

In the time of the early Church, Christians would make
this hand-gesture in order to invoke the power
associated with the Christian cross for protection,
when faced with evil. Moreover, Christians, when
persecuted by the Romans, used this gesture, along
with the Ichthys ("Jesus fish"), in order to recognize
one another and assemble for worship.
In 16th century England, people continued to make this
gesture or make the sign of the cross in order to ward
off evil, as well as when people coughed or sneezed.
This gesture also gives rise to a popular phrase.
What is the gesture/phrase?

"We're into the politics of people, we're not into politics. Like
you talk about Northern Ireland, '_____ _____ _____,'
people sort of think, 'Oh, that time when 13 Catholics were
shot by British soldiers'; that's not what the song is about.
That's an incident, the most famous incident in Northern
Ireland and it's the strongest way of saying, 'How long?
How long do we have to put up with this?' I don't care
who's who – Catholics, Protestants, whatever. You know
people are dying every single day through bitterness and
hate, and we're saying why? What's the point?"
Drummer of X about their song Y.
ID X. Fill in the blanks to give Y.

In many languages including English, X is a common name
for Y as a whole. Strictly speaking, X is only the central-
western region of the country comprising two of the
twelve provinces, and thus linguistically similar to use
of Russia for the (former) Soviet Union, and England for
the United Kingdom.
The use is sometimes discouraged. For example, the "X"
entry in the style guide of The Guardian and The
Observer newspapers states: "Do not use X when you
mean Y (of which it is a region), with the exception of
the football team, which is conventionally known as X".
What are X and Y?

To convert the discovery of X into music, Piotr
Traczyk mapped points in histograms to a
chromatic scale, and then used logarithms to
squeeze the frequency range into something
suitable for a guitar. The resulting "song" is
performed by two guitars, where one plays
the gamma-gamma run and the other the 4-
lepton riff (pictures in next slide).

Barbara Millicent Roberts is the daughter of George and
Margaret Roberts from the town of Willows,
Wisconsin. She attended Willows High School and the
Manhattan International High School in New York City.
She owns over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a
panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She also owns a wide
range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles,
trailers, and jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and
operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as
a flight attendant.
How do we better know Barbara Millicent Roberts?

This is a description from Book VIII of Bocaccio's
Decameron:
"...there was a mountain all of grated ________
______, whereon abode folk who did nothing
but make maccaroni and ravioli."
What was the mountain made of?

X is a mixture of creamed fish, or meat, sometimes combined with
breadcrumbs, with a light egg binding. It is usually poached.
The X gesture is usually performed by pointing one arm diagonally
downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the
opposite hand. Although it is usually done with the hand at
shoulder level, there are several variations (e.g. elbow or wrist
level). The gesture is interpreted as an inverted Nazi salute.
Since the elongated fishballs of the dish resemble suppositories, the
gesture according to its creator Dieudonné evokes English insults
“up yours” and “up your arse”.
What is X?

X studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College
London, graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree and ARCS in
physics with Upper Second-Class Honours. From 1970 to
1974, he studied for a PhD degree at Imperial College,
studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the
velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System.
X appeared on the 700th episode of The Sky at Night hosted
by Sir Patrick Moore. Astronomer Martin Rees who was
departing the panel, told X, who was joining it, "I don't
know a scientist who looks as much like Isaac Newton as
you do".
Who was X?

X was introduced as a soldier in World War II with an
Assyrian heritage, even though his name indicates an
Armenian background because of the "ian" suffix.
The exotic name X was chosen by Y to emphasize his
protagonist's detachment from the mainstream
military culture. X's name is described as being "an
odious, alien, distasteful name, that just did not inspire
confidence." As to the origins of the name itself, Y
admitted in later years that the name 'X' was derived
from the name of one of his Air Force buddies, Francis
Yohannan – an Assyrian.
ID X and Y.

At the event, Neil Leifer was only one out of two photographers with
colour films in his camera. He was quite aware of X's speed and
tremendous mobility. So, in order not to miss any action
anywhere, Leifer used 5 cameras in total. He set up one fully
loaded camera on each side plus an overhead camera high above
the action. Each camera had a remote cord that he could push to
snap thousands of photos at a time regardless of where he was
standing. Leifer kept running from side to side during the whole
duration of the event shooting non-stop. It was only later back in
his hotel room reviewing what he had just shot that he realized he
had a masterpiece on his hands.
Connect the above description with the Mark Knopfler song.
Explanation is required.

The song is “Song for Sonny Liston”

When X tragically passed away midway through the
production of Y, Universal Studios hired Peter
Jackson's WETA Digital to make a CGI replica of X.
The majority of X’s unfinished scenes were
completed using his brothers Caleb and Cody as
doubles. When combined with CGI, carefully
chosen camera angles and the right lighting, they
are the spitting image of X.
Who is X? What is Y?

The Miliarium Aureum (Classical Latin: golden milestone)
was a monument, probably of gilded bronze, erected
by the Emperor Caesar Augustus near the temple of
Saturn in the central Forum of Ancient Rome.
The main hypotheses about the inscription on it are:
1. Nothing, except for the name and title of the Emperor;
2. The names of the most important cities of Italy and of
the Empire in 20 BC;
3. The names of the roads out of Rome and the men of
praetorian rank Augustus had made Curatores Viarum
to see to the upkeep of them.
What is said to have originated from this monument?

Scientists decided to use "street-wanderers" for the
experiment as they believed they were already partly
adapted to hunger and cold.
On the eve of the experiment, one of the scientists took X
home to play with his children. In his book Dr. Vladimir
Yazdovsky wrote, "I wanted to do something nice for her:
She had so little time left to live."
Oleg Gazenko, another scientist wrote: "We treat them like
babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more
I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it... We did not
learn enough from this mission to justify the death."
What was the experiment about? Who was X?

What literary work inspired this song by The Cure?

The origin of the name X is disputed. One of the earliest
mentions in print of the term X dates back to a Time
magazine article in 1934. Walt Disney is also quoted as
thanking Y for it as early as 1932. Another claimed
origin is that the Y's Executive Secretary, Margaret
Herrick, first saw it in 1931 and claimed that it
reminded her of her "Uncle X". Columnist Sidney
Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized
the name in his byline, "Employees have affectionately
dubbed their famous ____, X".
Put funda.

Why are the Academy Awards called

Short Visual Connect
5 slides, beginning at +25
Reducing by 5/slide, negatives marked.
EXTREMELY inexhaustive. Just the most popular/most
heard of.

Places which give their names to
dog breeds
Alsace, France- Alsatian
Labrador, Canada- Labrador Retriever
Chihuahua, Mexico- Chihuahua
Denmark- Great Dane
Lhasa, Tibet- Lhasa Apso; Pomerania, Prussia- Pomeranian; Beijing, China- Pekingese

In a recent podcast, the show’s creator has hit out
at fans trying to replicate an iconic scene, saying
that the residents of the house do not deserve
such harassment.
“There’s nothing funny or original or cool about
________ ______ __ this lady’s roof.” He
emphatically states.
Jonathan Banks adds a threat for such people in
character, saying “If I catch you doing it, I will
hunt you down” in his signature low growl.
What were these people trying to replicate?

Blade, Chuck, Flank, Flap, Hanger, Ranch, Skirt
Connect with a single word, that can be added
after each of these terms.

• Map of a part of?
• What is the
blanked out place
known as?
• This was a plan
that was never
realized. What do
we have instead
of the portion
demarcated in
blue?
• What was built on
the Apollo Bunder
area?

S is an old Australian and New Zealand term for
nomadic, temporary workers who would
travel from farm to farm looking for odd,
menial and harvesting jobs.
The term comes from the bedroll they carried
around with them.
Give me the term, which would also explain why
these people would be really popular with
today’s kids.

In Japanese martial arts, ‘zanshin’ is what is
known as the state of total awareness and
not, as a character on a popular TV show has
mistakenly claimed, what is actually a
freshwater eel.
Put funda.

Some people believe it is no coincidence that these two
authors were born within two months of each other in
Prague. This is probably because they both died young,
roughly within a year of each other, with their
(arguably) most famous works, also published (or at
least ended) posthumously within a year of each other
in 1923 and 1924, dealing with the aftermath of the
First World War in one way or another.
It is perhaps appropriate, given the world views we find in
these books, that one died of consumption in 1924
while the other died of obesity-related heart failure in
1923. Identify both authors and the books in question.

Sativa is Latin for
“cultivated”
Indica is Latin for
“Indian”
And “Ruderalis” is Latin
for “[of the] rubble”
These are the three
main varieties of?

The world for this natural formation comes from
the Greek, “to drip.”
The word for this other natural formation comes
from the Greek, “to drop.”
What are the formations?

____ is a genus of ferns containing 19 species.
One of the graduate students on the group that discovered this
new genus, Fay-Wei Li, noticed that the common
characteristic of such ferns was that they had guanine-
adenine-guanine-adenine base pairs in their DNA
Kathleen Pryer, research team leader, claimed that they listened
to enormously empowering music while working, the kind
that worked for “disenfranchised people … LGBT, ethnic
groups, women—and scientists who study odd ferns!”
The team also noticed that the ferns had the ability to self
fertilize and hence had fluid definitions of gender.
Name the genus.

This Olympian had
brought in a Gold Medal
for the United States
back in 1976. Who is
she?

This book was originally serialized in the Arabic daily Al-
Ahram, where it met with severe opposition, causing its
inevitable ban.
The whole book was eventually printed in Lebanon in
1967.
A revival of interest in the work after his Nobel Prize
caused the Blind Sheikh Oram-Abdel Rahman toh
condemn it, a chain of events leading to the author
being stabbed, non-fatally, by two extremists outside
his home.
Which work?

Shortly after its release, the originality of the song
was questioned on the Dan Gaffney Morning Show
on Delaware based news/talk radio station WGMD
92.7 FM. Two of the station's hosts, Dan Gaffney
and Jared Morris, alleged that X had plagiarized Y’s
1993 hit "Mary Jane's Last Dance".
Listen to the beginning of “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” to
identify the controversial song, X and Y.

Who is this intrepid 14-year old?

The quote, consistently misattributed especially after the
‘speaker’s’ death, was actually penned down by two much-
lesser-known ad-men, creative director Robert Siltanen,
and Lee Chow for one of TBWA/Chiat/Day’s biggest clients.
Truth be told, while the ‘speaker’ thought the concept for the
larger (but grammatically incorrect) campaign was brilliant,
he absolutely hated the words that became ‘his’ quote, but
finally changed his mind. He then voiced it over for the TV
ad, but his version was never found until after his death,
perhaps adding fuel to the rumours of it being ‘his’ quote.
What was the two-word larger campaign titled?
Which quote? Who is the person this is misattributed to?

The Diomede Islands are somewhat unusual in several
ways. Other than the fact that the two islands
which are only 3.5 km from each other are parts of
two different countries, people on Big Diomede
technically have the power to see into the past
while those on Little Diomede can potentially see
into the future.
Why is this so? Which countries are the two
Diomedes a part of (specify which island is whose)?

What is this
Maori
woman’s
beautiful,
plumed
cloak
made of?

In his book Halsman on the Creation of
Photographic Ideas, celebrated photographer
describes something as follows:
"Six hours and twenty-eight throws later, the
result satisfied my striving for perfection. (…)
My assistants and I were wet, dirty, and near
complete exhaustion—only the cats still
looked like new".
What exactly was he describing?

I have Google
Mapped a place
that is
unquestionably
and absolutely
one of a kind in
the world.
Which place?
Why is it
unique?

It was developed by Dow Chemical Company in 1966.
40 symbols were drawn up by Dow artists, and all of the symbols
investigated had to meet a number of criteria:
(i) striking in form in order to draw immediate attention;
(ii) unique and unambiguous, in order not to be confused with
symbols used for other purposes;
(iii) quickly recognizable and easily recalled;
(iv) easily stenciled;
(v) symmetrical, in order to appear identical from all angles of
approach; and
(vi) acceptable to groups of varying ethnic backgrounds.
According to Charles Baldwin who contributed to its development:
“We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so
we could educate people as to what it means.”
What is being talked about?

One of the earliest of this particular kind of video
was "The Spirit of Christmas" which surfaced in
1995. A particularly well-known early example
was "All your base are belong to us", based on a
poorly translated video game, which was first
distributed as a GIF animation and became
popular in the year 2000. These videos often
contain humorous content and include televised
comedy sketches, but sometimes eyewitness
events are also subject to the phenomenon.
What phenomenon is this?

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