Finals of the AsKQAnce Junior College Quiz researched and conducted by Navin Rajaram and Mitesh Agarwal

1. Askqance 2012- Junior College Quiz
Finals
QMs: Mitesh Agarwal and Navin Rajaram

2. Currency Affairs
Written Round
8 Qns on Coins, +5 for each
+10 Bonus for all correct

3. Issued by a general to his soldiers, this coin bears an
important date (in Latin) associated with the general.
Name the general or what happened on this date.

4. Issued in 2001, this coin commemorates
which fictional character?

5. This coin commemorates the world‟s 2nd largest
brackish-water basin. What water body?

6. Issued in 1970 to commemorate a bicentenary,
whose portrait is featured here alongside the
eastern coastline of a country?

7. The Canadian 1-dollar coin is popularly called a
_____, which may remind most of us of cartoon
shows. The term derives from the common _______,
a very well known bird of Canada. Fill either blank.

8. This coin was issued to commemorate an event that
was held for the 2nd time in India after 1951. What
event?

9. This tradition involving Japanese coins was initially
started to prevent counterfeiting. As minting
technology improved, it was slowly removed but
survives in 5 yen and 50 yen coins because the Bank
of Japan feels this helps distinguish these coins from
others and helps people with visual impairments.
What tradition?

10. Who was honored with this South African Rand?

11. EXCHANGE SHEETS,
ANSWERS FOLLOW

12. Issued by a general to his soldiers, this coin bears an
important date (in Latin) associated with the general.
Name the general or what happened on this date.

13. ANSWER

14. Marcus Junius Brutus/
Assassination of Julius Caesar
(Inscription translates to Ides of March)

15. Issued in 2001, this coin commemorates
which fictional character?

16. ANSWER

17. Heidi

18. This coin commemorates the world‟s 2nd largest
brackish-water basin. What water body?

19. ANSWER

20. Baltic Sea

21. Issued in 1970 to commemorate a bicentenary,
whose portrait is featured here alongside the
eastern coastline of a country?

22. ANSWER

23. Captain James Cook

24. The Canadian 1-dollar coin is popularly called a
_____, which may remind most of us of cartoon
shows. The term derives from the common _______,
a very well known bird of Canada. Fill either blank.

25. ANSWER

26. Loonie/Loon

27. This coin was issued to commemorate an event that
was held for the 2nd time in India after 1951. What
event?

28. ANSWER

29. Asian Games

30. This tradition involving Japanese coins was initially
started to prevent counterfeiting. As minting
technology improved, it was slowly removed but
survives in 5 yen and 50 yen coins because the Bank
of Japan feels this helps distinguish these coins from
others and helps people with visual impairments.
What tradition?

31. ANSWER

32. Holes in the center

33. Who was honored with this South African Rand?

34. ANSWER

35. M K Gandhi/Mahatma Gandhi

36. Scores!

37. Clockwise
12 Questions on the bounce
Pounce and write +10, -10

38. 1. Better known for a site he updates every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, his
new blog What If? answers one hypothetical
physics question every week such as the fate of
a baseball travelling at nearly the speed of light
or the power output of Yoda.
Who and what is his popular online creation?
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40. ANSWER

41. Randall Munroe/ xkcd

42. 2. Pyongyang became the official
national capital of North Korea only
after 1972. Until 1972, what was the
official capital of North Korea and why?

43. ANSWER

44. Seoul
Even though South Korea was a separate
country, North Korea believed they owned
the entire Korean peninsula so Pyongyang
was only a provisional capital

45. 3. The popular name for this style of houses in small
town England is a term that is most familiar to
followers of Newcastle United. What term?

46. ANSWER

47. Magpie Houses

48. 4. This geographical entity is one of the
three largest of its kind along with the
Iberian and the Balkan. Because it is
shaped as such, it is often called Lo Stivale
(The Boot) by local residents.
What are we talking about?

49. ANSWER

50. Italian Peninsula

51. 5. What word, originating from legal
terminology and referring to the
matching/opposite components of a legal
document signed by different parties, is
now used in the sense of complementing
someone or something?

52. ANSWER

53. Counterpart

54. 6. Until well past 1900, Russia used a
misaligned calendar devised by Julius
Caesar‟s astrologers, thus leaving it weeks
behind rest of Europe which was using
the Gregorian calendar.
This fact is frequently cited by historians
as a footnote when speaking about what?

55. ANSWER

56. October Revolution actually occurred
in November

57. 7. What does this floating hotel pay tribute to?

58. ANSWER

59. Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

60. 8. This was a letter written by a boy to
Ripley about his dog Spike that swallowed
everything. Who was this boy and when
he grew up, how did he immortalize Spike
in the minds of children?
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62. ANSWER

63. Charles Schulz, Spike became Sniffy
and then Snoopy

64. 9. The Weeping Rock/Mount Sypilus formation in
Turkey resembles a woman‟s face and being
composed of porous limestone allows rainwater to
seep through.
This leads to its association with the Greek legend of
the arrogant daughter of Tantalus, who was turned
into stone and wept incessantly when Artemis and
Apollo killed her 14 children.
Who?
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66. ANSWER

67. Niobe

68. 10. In 1944, when an Axis power favoring
committee won him the Nobel in Chemistry, he did
not acknowledge the contribution of his female
protégé.
However, justice was poetic when the Russians
rejected naming transuranic element 105 after him
and instead named it dubnium, thus ensuring he‟d
never have an element named after him, ever.
His protégé is now immortalized as element 109.
Name this mentor-protégé duo.

69. ANSWER

70. Otto Hahn
Lise Meitner

71. 11. Train no. 6865/6866 of the Indian Railways,
which currently runs from/to Tiruchhirapalli
to/from Ernakulam.
The original route of this train which was from
Cochin to Mettupalayam at the foot of the
Nilgiri mountains took it through numerous
______ ______, which gives it the name it
retains today.
What name?

72. ANSWER

73. Tea Garden Express

74. 12. On its 60th anniversary this year, a bunch of
statistics were released based on data gathered.
Till 1974, the number of meetings never dropped
below 100, while since 1989, the figure has never
reached 100. Another statistic on “Time Lost”
reveals, that the utilization was only 59% for 2011.
On what were these statistics compiled?
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76. ANSWER

77. Parliament of India

78. The Round
8 Questions on a Grid
Answers begin or end with the letter on grid
Raise your hand and buzz to write the answer for
+15, -10
Quiz continues on infinite bounce - +10,0

79. The Grid
A S K Q A N C E

80. A
Once the most expensive metal in the
world, a capstone made of it was installed
on top of a famous American monument
in 1884.
Which metal and what monument?
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82. ANSWER

83. Aluminium, Washington Monument

84. S
This term/word is used for a sharp point or
projection, especially a broken stump in a
waterway that can damage a ship. Over time
it has come to be used for a hidden difficulty
or drawback and is frequently used in the
airlines business.
What word?
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85. S

86. ANSWER

87. Snag

88. What 4 letter suffix connects the following?
K

89. ANSWER

90. Fork – Carving fork, Salad fork, Pitch
fork, Cold cuts fork

91. Q
Kuwait Petroleum International is an
umbrella company that sells oil and related
fuels to over 75 countries from Kuwait.
Using what patriotic and witty 2 letter
trademark do they sell fuel in some
countries?

92. ANSWER

93. Q8 (sounds like Kuwait)

94. Connect: One audio clip and 2 pictures A
A/V Removed – Bob
Dylan/Desolation Row

95. ANSWER

96. Ophelia – one of Uranus‟ moons, the
painting by Millias and mentioned in
the song Desolation Row by Bob Dylan

97. N
What Japanese firm, originally called
AddZest and specializing in audio
technology takes its name from this
instrument used in the middle ages?
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98. N

99. ANSWER

101. C
In this gory representation, who is the
man seated to the right of the deity in
the centre?
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102. C

103. ANSWER

104. Chitragupta

105. Connect
E

106. ANSWER

107. Enigma – Alan Turing cracked the
Enigma cipher, Riddler‟s real name
was Edward Nigma (Enigma) and
Michael Cretu was the founder of the
Enigma musical project

108. Anti-Clockwise
12 Questions on the bounce
Pounce and write: +10, -10

109. 1. The Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra watch
was first launched in 1948 to commemorate an
occasion, where Omega was appointed
timekeeper.
64 years later, Omega is re-launching the 1948
Seamaster edition in 2012 to coincide with
exactly the same occasion.
What occasion (be specific) ?

110. ANSWER

111. London hosting the Olympics

112. 2. Unveiled in 1904, this was erected in the
Andes mountains on the border between
Argentina and Chile to peacefully resolve a
territorial dispute and shares part of its name
with a much larger, more famous monument in
a neighbouring country.
Name the more famous monument.
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114. ANSWER

115. Christ the Redeemer at Rio de Janiero

116. 3. Oligodon is a genus of snakes native to East
& South Asia that survive as egg scavengers
and occasionally on lizards, frogs and rodents.
The common name for these snakes comes
from the shape of the broad, flattened, curved,
hind teeth which resemble a weapon used in a
country neighbouring India.
What common name?
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118. ANSWER

119. Kukri Snakes

120. 4. Besides the fact that these are all by the same
band, connect the following 3 audio clips
A/V Removed – Ramble On, No Quarter,
Battle of Evermore

121. ANSWER

122. Songs by Led Zeppelin inspired/
referencing the Lord of the Rings

123. 5. The winning entry to a 2003 essay writing
competition in USA was by a 9 year old Arizona
resident Sofi Collis. :
“I used to live in an orphanage. It was dark and cold
and lonely. At night, I looked up at the sparkly sky and
felt better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can
make all my dreams come true. Thank you for the spirit
and the opportunity.”
How was her entry used?

124. ANSWER

125. To name the Mars Rovers – Spirit
and Opportunity

126. 6. In the poem Lenore, he describes the death of a
young woman:
The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride
In a later poem, he is again thinking of Lenore when
an unexpected visitor turns up.
Which poem and author?

127. ANSWER

128. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

129. 7. David Bowie turned it down because it did not
represent what he had been doing all his life,
while John Lennon did the same since Britain
supported America in Vietnam. Others in the list
who followed suit include Henry Moore, Vanessa
Redgrave and Aldous Huxley.
Which Indian did it in 1919 and what was his
reason?

130. ANSWER

131. TAGORE!
Turned down knighthood protesting
Jallianwallah Bagh massacre

132. 8. This 2 word name given to the widespread
exchange of animals, plants, culture and
populations, disease and ideas between the
Eastern and Western Hemispheres is named
after the person who made it possible in the
1400s.
What name?
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134. ANSWER

135. Columbian Exchange

136. 9. A large group of bicycle riders in a race is usually
referred to by the term that derives from the French
for “little ball” or from the generic English word for
objects you see on the left. What term?

137. ANSWER

138. Peloton, after Pellet

139. 10. Dicentra cucullaria or Dutchman’s Breeches is a perennial
herbaceous plant native to North America. The flowers
have a pink or white drop between the outer petals. What
tragi-romantic name is used for these flowers?

140. ANSWER

141. Bleeding Hearts

142. 11. What entity is this song by the band
Indian Ocean about?
<A/V Removed – Ma Rewa>

143. ANSWER

144. Narmada, also called Rewa

145. 12. Connect the following 3 pictures and tell
us a story.
Larger images follow

147. ANSWER

148. Iago from Othello – the parrot in Tintin, Saif‟s
character in Omkara and Josh Hartnett‟s
character in „O‟