Bcqc finals

BOMBAY QUIZ CLUB

Vikram Joshi

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Facts that caught my fancy

Rules
 30 questions clockwise, Infinite bounds
 SVC (5 clues – 2 images in each slide)
 30 questions anti-clockwise, Infinite bounds
 Pick your poison (8 questions, Infinite pounce)
 If there are 2 answers required, the team that gets
both will get the full 10 points. In case no one gets
both, then part points will be awarded.

 As always, I am the Answer Nazi, so what I say goes…

Breakup of Questions

History
Geography
Lifestyle/Culture
Sports
Entertainment
Science
Literature
Current Affairs

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Clockwise
30 questions/10 points each
Presents

A general quiz which depends on how much
Mumbai Mirror you read

1
Billed as the answer to the Nazified Berlin
Olympics, there was a left-wing version called the
People’s Olympics in the same year that had over
6,000 athletes from 22 liberal and left-wing
leaning nations and individuals scheduled to take
part.
However, this never happened due to an event
that happened a day before the scheduled start
of the People’s Olympics. What event?

The start of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936)

2

This is a song from the Finnish movie “Man
without a past” by Aki Kaurismaki. It features a
band from X – bands belonging to X typically
wear their quasi-military uniforms while
performing songs that portray an evangelical
Protestant viewpoint of life and religion.
ID X.

3 Arwi, a language related to Brahui, is originally
the language of this group of people in Asia –
however, it has a large dose of Arabic vocabulary.
Today the language is largely extinct with no
spoken versions – however, it is used with Arabic
in written religious versions. The most notable
usage of Arwi can be found in devotional chants
such as the Talaifatiha, which is conducted
exclusively by women during Islamic religious
festivals.
Name group of people for whom Arwi is a
mother tongue.

4
11 economies which have been identified as
sources of growth potential and of profitable
investment opportunities by Citigroup in 2011 -
after having declared BRICS as “having outlived
its usefulness” - have 9 countries from Asia and 2
from Africa.
Countries include
India, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Egy
pt, Iraq, Mongolia, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka.
What moniker did Citigroup give them?

3-G countries (Global Growth Generator countries)

5

Connect this person with
something that happened in
1993 with the
US Postal Service.
(Specific answer needed – no
points for ID)

Grace Kelly – the first US actress to be featured on
a US postal stamp

6
Why did the Berlin Zoo shares more than double
in late March 2007 at the Berlin Stock Exchange
from 2€ to 4.82€ just a week later?
(specific keyword in your answer required)

The Berlin zoo trademarked the name Knut

7
In telecasting the 1978 Eurovision song
contest, the Jordanian television broadcaster
JRTV abruptly pulled away from the live telecast
of the show and instead showed a screen with
flowers with no sound.
Similarly in 1981, JRTV did not telecast the
scoring portion of the show. Why?

When it became clear that Israel was winning the
contest - in order to not show the Israeli victory.
(They also announced second place winners
Belgium as the winners.)

8
Situated at Henley-on-Klip near
Johannesburg, this place soon became involved
in a controversy when a CNN reporting team
reported on 300 count bed sheets and a beauty
salon among other things offered to the people
here.
Newsweek questioned whether the $40 million
spent here might have benefited a far greater
number of people had the money been spent
with less emphasis on luxurious surroundings and
more emphasis on practicality.
Name the place (need full name for full points)

The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls

9
The national drink of England around this time
was ale. However, after a long sea voyage to
marry its King, this Princess asked for a cup of tea
as soon as she disembarked.
Even though tea had been drunk in England
before this, this was held to signify Royal
approval of the custom and then led to tea
drinking becoming the national pastime of the
English.
Name this Princess.

10
X is a naturally occurring radioactive chemical
element, found throughout the world in its ore form
as monazite. X is found in small amounts in most
rocks and soils; it is three times more abundant
than tin in the Earth's crust and is about as common
as lead.
India plans to use X for its nuclear power stations for
reasons including its safety benefits, its high absolute
abundance (reducing fuel costs to extract it), and
relative abundance (as India has the world’s largest
reserves of X – almost 67% of world’s total –
primarily on the Kerala coast).

? ?
These are the 5 instances when Time magazine has
utilized an “X” to indicate death or defeat. 2 are
missing. In chronological order, which are the
missing 2 and tell me why a “black X” was used in
the second case?

Surrender of Imperial Japan

Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Black cross was used as Red was the color of the
Imperial Japanese flag

11
Wayang is a traditional art form in Java telling
stories from the Ramayana. Originally, it consisted
of wooden and leather puppets depicting
Rama, Sita and other gods and mythological
figures.
But later on, this form was superseded by Wayang
Purwa which told the same stories but through
shadows – giving rise to what we know as shadow
puppetry.
Why did this change happen?

Islam forbids the showing of Gods/demi-
Gods/mythological characters in human form

12
Connect (not exhaustive):
Images are representative only

Moons of Jupiter
(named after the lovers
of Zeus - Io, Ganymede,
Europa and Calisto)

13 Similar to the Betal of the “Vikram and Betal”
stories, he was encountered by Sinbad the Sailor
on his fifth voyage. He was said to trick a traveller
into letting him ride on their shoulders while the
traveller transported him across a stream.
However, he would then not release his
grip, forcing his victim to transport him wherever
he pleased and allowing his victim little rest. His
victims all eventually died of this miserable
treatment, but Sinbad, after having got him
drunk with wine, was able to shake him off and
kill him. Who?

14
Introduced in 1927 in Surat as an alternative to
the UK drink Vimto, this drink was a mixture of
grape juice and apple cider.
Originally it was called ’Whisky No’, to attract
alcoholics in the dry state of Gujarat. The name
'Whisky No' was derived from the fact that it
tastes like alcohol.
The present name is derived from a Latin word
implying it is a drink that can be had with family
and friends.

Sosyo (from the Latin “socius”)

15
It opens with a description of the Black Death and
leads into an introduction of a group of 7 young
women and 3 young men who flee from plague-
ridden Florence to a rural villa for two weeks. To
pass the time, every night, all of the members tell
one story each. Although fourteen days pass, two
days each week are set aside. In this manner, 100
stories are told by the end of the ten days.
The title is a portmanteau of 2 Greek words
meaning “ten” and “days”. Identify work and
author (last name is fine)

Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

16
The most expensive Broadway production to
date and also holder of the record for the most
preview (182) performances, this rock musical
flopped badly. After production was suspended
and the director fired, it began again in June
2011. Reviews have been mixed with most major
reviewers calling this a failure.
Preview performances were plagued by lengthy
technical issues and actor accidents.
Music and lyrics are by Bono and The Edge.
Full name of musical for full points please.

17
He went from being Prime Minister to President to
King of his country. During his reign, he survived over
55 assassination attempts. One of these occurred in
1931, while he was visiting the Vienna State
Opera house for a performance. He survived by firing
back at his attackers with a pistol that he always
carried. This is the only occasion in modern history
when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire
with potential assassins.
He was overthrown in 1939 and a protectorate
established under a monarch of a neighbouring
state.

King Zog I of Albania (born Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolli)

18
The code name for the Hyderabad Police Action
in September 1948 in which the Indian armed
forces engaged those of the State of Hyderabad
and ended the rule of the Nizam, annexing the
state into the Indian Union was X.
Supposedly due to the fact that Hyderabad had
17 of them – the largest number in India.

Operation Polo (named for the 17 Hyderabadi polo
grounds)

This is a Diego Velasquez painting titled “The
Spinners” in the Prado. It tells the story of a maiden
who challenged the Goddess Minerva to a spinning
contest. She wove a tapestry detailing the “loves
and transgressions of the Gods” and so angered
Minerva that she slashed the tapestry and turned
the maiden into something.
Name the maiden.

20
The name of this city in Sicily comes from the
Arabic term for “Port of God”. It occupies the site
of the former Carthaginian stronghold of
Lilybaeum.
On May 11, 1860, Garibaldi and his Expedition of
the Thousand landed here and began his
campaign to overthrow Bourbon rule in
Sicily, during the Unification of Italy process.
It is the source of a strong fortified wine of the
same name.

Their “caste name” is Shaniwar Teli owing to
them not doing their traditional job of oilseed
pressing on Saturdays.
Give me the name of this community of people.

This is the X route extending from St.
Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California from
1860-61. It was an super-fast service that was the
US West’s most direct means of communication
until the widespread use of the telegraph.
It was widely considered as instrumental in keeping
California tied to the Union during the Civil War.

22
The national anthem of X is a hybrid composed of
a newer anthem with words from the older
anthem and another hymn incorporated in it.
Each paragraph of the anthem is in a different
language (thus representing 5 of the country’s 11
official languages).

2 points for naming the country, 3 for the
national anthem – and 1 point each for naming
the 5 languages.

South Africa (N’Kosi Sikele Afrika)
- X’hosa
- Zulu
- Sotho
- Afrikaans
- English

23
X was the only Latin book to be ever featured in the
New York Time bestseller list when it was released in
1960 and published in Latin translation by Alexander
Lenard.
In the first chapter (in the original English book), the
justification for the title character’s commonly used
name is as follows : “But his arms were so stiff ... they
stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and
whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to
blow it off. And I think — but I am not sure —
that that is why he is always called _______”

24
X holds both the indoor (set in 1994) and outdoor
(set in 1993) world records for the sport.
In all, X has broken the world record 35 times (17
outdoor) and (18 indoor).
The sports system X was part of rewarded
athletes for setting new world records, and X
became noted for establishing new records by
very slim amounts each time. This allowed X to
collect frequent bonus payments and made X a
star attraction at athletic meets.

25
This city X was the capital of Russian Alaska –
with its name derived from the word for island in
the Aleut native language.
Captain James Cook in his journals was the first
person who used the name of this small town in
1778.
Ursus arctos middendorffi also known as the X
bear is native to this archipelago. It is the largest
subspecies of brown bear in the world.
What is X.

26
Twelve things this book will do for you:
 Get you out of a mental rut, give you new thoughts, new visions, new
ambitions.
 Enable you to X.
 Increase your popularity.
 Help you to win people to your way of thinking.
 Increase Y, your prestige, your ability to get things done.
 Enable you to win new clients, new customers.
 Increase your earning power.
 Make you a better salesman, a better executive.
 Help you to handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human
contacts smooth and pleasant.
 Make you a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist.
 Make the principles of psychology easy for you to apply in your daily
contacts.
 Help you to arouse enthusiasm among your associates.

27

The smallest European nation (then a Duchy) to
attempt colonization in the Western Hemisphere
colonized the island of Tobago.
It also had a short-lived colony at the mouth of
the Gambia river in Africa.
Identify the Duchy and the modern nation-state
that encompasses it. (Part points available)

The Duchy of Courland (in what is today’s Latvia)

28
Venice is submerged up to 100 times every year
in what is called the aqua alta (high water) when
the waters of the Adriatic sea flood the lagoon
and the islands that make up the city. To avoid
this, an integrated defence system consisting of
rows of mobile gates able to isolate the Venetian
lagoon from the Adriatic sea when the tide
reaches above an established level (110 cm) and
up to a maximum of 3 m. is being developed.
What is the somewhat appropriate name (an
acronym) given to it by the Italian government.

MOSE (Module Sperimentale Elletromecanico)
Mosé is also the Italian for Moses.

29
What is this style of singing called?
Hint: Mastering it is one of Sheldon Cooper’s
goals

30
X is the oldest active trophy in international
sport. It is awarded to the victor of a race
between the defender and a challenger. In
1983, the challenger from Perth won, thus ending
the longest winning streak (126 years) in sport
history held by the defenders from New York
City.
From 1983 until 2007, Y sponsored the Y cup as a
prize for the winner of the challenger selection
series.
Name X and Y. (Part points available)

X – The America’s cup
Y – The Louis Vuitton cup

She was the first western woman to be received
into an Indian monastic order. She received the
name X meaning “Dedicated to God” when she
was initiated into Brahmacharya in 1898.
Looking for X.

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The 10 Plagues of Egypt (Book of Exodus)

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31
X was introduced in 1910 (originally under the
name Creola) by the Bermondsey company Peek
Freans of London.
Its name is believed to be a corruption in French
of the Spanish royal house and not of the
erstwhile French royal house. This is due to the
Spanish original name of X as well as to the fact
that chocolate was brought to Europe from the
Spanish American colonies.
Give me X.

32
The video (next slide) is the group Djurdjura
singing (in native costume) what is considered
the “national anthem” of this group of people
who have long fought for freedom and rights.
National heroes mentioned in the anthem are the
priestess Kahina and the King Jugurtha. The name
Djurdjura itself is the highest peak in the range of
mountains that encompass the homeland of
these people.
How do we know the people better (Common
name please)?

33

Named after Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th ___ of
Cañete and Viceroy of Peru, today this archipelago is
part of French Polynesia. French painter Paul
Gauguin is buried here.
The 4th installment of the reality show Survivor was
filmed on this island group.

34
Written by Y and considered the first work of
modern economics, its full title is “An inquiry into
the nature and causes of X” usually better known
by simply X.
Y’s portrait has appeared since 1981 on the £50
notes issued by the Clydesdale Bank in
Scotland, and in March 2007 it also appeared on
the new series of £20 notes issued by the Bank of
England, making Y the first Scotsman to feature
on an English banknote.

35
“If I win, I am American, not a black American.
But if I did something bad, then they would say I
am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of
being black. Black America will understand what
we did tonight”

Connect the comment made with an iconic
moment in sports history.

36
Famous for his numerous love affairs (including
Gina Lollobrigida and Francoise Hardy) and married
three times, he was jokingly called “the doctor of
hearts”.
He stated that the reason he never won the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine was probably
because he was a “white South African“.
He wrote his autobiography “One life” in 1969
after his breakthrough. His second autobiography
“The Second Life” was published in 1993, 8 years
before his death.

Dr. Christiaan Barnard (first surgeon to perform a
human-to-human heart transplant)

37
Because of the increasing popularity of Baroque
opera in the mid 20th century and the need to
replace X singers in them (who had died out by
then), the position of a Y was created.
Y is a male singing voice whose vocal range is
equivalent to a mezzo-soprano or contralto
female voice. (See example on next slide)
Some of the famous Y roles in opera include
Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Orfeo in Orfeo ed Eurydice.
ID X and Y. (Part points available)

X – Castrato/Castrati
Y - Countertenor

38

In a 2008 investigation by Channel 4 News in
Britain, it was found that 6% of the 93,000 word
thesis for the LSE titled “The role of civil society in
the democratization of global governance
institutions : From soft power to collective
decision making” was copied from other sources.
Whose PhD thesis was this? (Need full name only
for points)

39
This is an excerpt from an interview on 60 minutes
the day before an iconic sports event in 1973. It was
the second of three such made-for-television events
– the first two starred the gentleman X you see in
the clip.
The event drew a huge viewership on television and
a large sum of money on bets on who would win.
Shortly before the event, Y entered the Astrodome
carried aloft in a chair held by four bare-chested
muscle men dressed in the garb of ancient slaves. X
followed in a rickshaw drawn by a bevy of scantily-
clad models. Need X, Y & event name for full points.

X – Bobby Riggs
Y – Billie Jean King
Event – Battle of the Sexes

40
The rules of the Nobel Prize forbid posthumous
nominations and because X had died in 1958, X was
not eligible for nomination to the Nobel Prize
subsequently awarded to Crick, Watson, and
Wilkins in 1962.
However, allegations of sexism towards X by the
subsequent winners who used much of X’s data
and research into the X-ray diffraction images of
DNA to develop the double-helix structure of DNA
were widespread – leading many people to believe
sexism to be behind X not winning the Nobel Prize.

It is unclear if this unit is named after a particular
scientist, his wife or both. It is 3.7 x 1010 times the
unit named after another scientist who won the
Nobel Prize in Physics with them.
Name all 3 people.

Pierre Curie and Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Henri
Becquerel

41
Connect the following: (exhaustive list)

Luz Long Lawrence Lemieux
Emil Zatopek Raymond Gafner
Eugenio Monti Tana Umaga
Karl Heinz Klee Spencer Eccles
Franz Jonas Vanderlei de Lima
Elena Novikova-Belova

Winners of the Pierre de Coubertin medal for
sportsmanship in Olympic events

42
On May 10–11, 1945, the Target Committee at Los
Alamos, led by J. Robert
Oppenheimer, recommended X, Niigata, Hiroshima,
Yokohama, and the arsenal at Y as possible targets
for the atom bomb.
However, X was not bombed because “… of Henry L.
Stimson, the Secretary of War at the time, who had
known and admired X ever since his honeymoon
there several decades earlier”.
Y was spared due to heavy cloud cover obscuring the
view of the pilots of the bomber which then bombed
Nagasaki instead.

43
Its name literally means “Duke’s land” from the
German word for Duke. Identified on the map of
the country by the part shown in blue (next
slide), it contains the only coastal town of this
primarily landlocked country.
The bridge shown in the second image (rebuilt) is
the primary tourist attraction in this part of the
world.
Identify the entity in blue.

44
X was one of the more famous lovers of
polydactyl cats, after being first given a six-toed
cat by a ship's captain.
Upon X's death in 1961, his former home
in Key, West, Florida, became a museum and a
home for his cats, and it currently houses
approximately fifty descendants of his cats
(about half of which are polydactyl). Because of
his love for these animals, “X Cat", is a term
which has come to describe polydactyls.

45
Need a 2 word term to connect the
emblems/symbols of the following 3 saints.

46
Derived from the Greek word for "having learned
much“, this is a person whose expertise spans a
significant number of different subject areas. Most
ancient scientists can be classed as such by today's
standards.
Another common term ____ ____ is used to describe a
person who is well educated or who excels in a wide
variety of subjects or fields. The concept emerged from
the numerous great thinkers of that era who excelled
in multiple fields of the arts in science, including da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Copernicus and Francis Bacon.
Give me both terms. (Part points available)

47
X’s first name is used only twice. His middle name –
Hamish – is used only once in the entire series of
stories. He is usually addressed by his last name.
In one of only 2 stories that his friend writes, he
says of X “ I have often had occasion to point out to
him how superficial are his accounts and to accuse
him of pandering to popular taste instead of
confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.”

48
Considered Ireland’s finest National treasure and
on permanent display at the Trinity College
Library in Dublin, this book was written and
illustrated by Celtic monks ca. 800 or earlier.
It is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in
Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New
Testament together with various prefatory texts
and tables.
It is named for the Abbey that was its home for
most of the medieval period.

49

The image on the next slide is concerned with a
particular treaty system. It was the first
significant treaty signed during the Cold War –
originally by 12 countries that had a territorial
claim – and now by 36 other countries who have
signed on a consultant basis.
Identify treaty system.

signatory, consulting, territorial claim
signatory, consulting, reserved right for
territorial claim
signatory, consulting
signatory, acceding status
non-signatory

50German singer-songwriter Frank Farian sang the
repeated line "Do you do you wanna bump?" in a deep
voice (entirely studio created) as well as performing the
high falsetto chorus in December 1974. When the record
was released as a single, it was credited to “X", a
pseudonym Farian had created for himself.
After the song became a hit in the Netherlands and
Belgium, Farian decided to hire performers to 'front' the
group for TV performances.
Farian decided to use only 2 of the female performers
along with his own studio-enhanced voice to create the X
sound – the other 2 performers merely lip-synched.
How do we know X better?

Named for the natives of the area and not for the
pests that probably plagued the settlers, it is
today shared between 2 Western Hemisphere
states.
It was established as a British protectorate and
then as a client kingdom ruled by British settlers
in the teeth of strong Spanish opposition.
It is also the name of a book by Paul Theroux and
a movie based on the book starring Harrison
Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix.

Mosquito Coast (from Miskito Indians)

51
Considered a martyr of astronomy and science by
modern thinkers, X was burned at the stake in
Rome by the Catholic Church for his heretical
ideas.
His cosmological theories went beyond
the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun
was essentially a star, and that the universe
contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds
populated by other intelligent beings.
A statue of him stands today on the site of his
stake in central Rome.

52
A dying man stood before over 60,000 people
and the world to impart the genuine feeling that
he was "the luckiest man in the world" for having
the opportunity to endeavour through the love of
his craft. Nicknamed the Iron Horse, he had not
missed a game in his entire 13-plus year career
(spanning a mind-bending 2,130 consecutive
games).
Identify both the man who was the subject of a
classic photograph and his team.

Lou Gehrig of the
New York Yankees

53
ID character in black coat and his most famous work.

Samuel Johnson, author of “Dictionary of the
English Language”

54
This phenomenon was caused by severe
drought coupled with decades of extensive farming
without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or
other techniques to prevent wind erosion. Deep
ploughing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had
displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that
normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture.
Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and
hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave
their homes; many of these families (often known as
X , since so many came from this state) migrated to
California and other states.
ID phenomenon (2 words) and nickname X.

55

The image on the next slide shows a bunch of
places connected to the X.
Together they were all part of the X district. It
was centered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and had
nothing to do with the more commonly known
name X.
What is X.

56

This was a friendly played (Colombia v/s England)
at Wembley in 1995.
What happens next? (Looking for 2 word phrase)

57
This piece of classical music contains parts of both
the French national anthem (La Marsellaise) at the
beginning of the piece and the Pre-revolution
Russian national anthem (God Save the Tsar) at the
end.
Appropriate choices for the event that this piece
seeks to commemorate.
It is mistakenly assumed in the USA that this
commemorates an event in their history which is
why it is played at July 4th celebrations all over the
US – especially the signature event in Boston.
Need name of piece and composer.

1812 Overture – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

58
The busy trade in X was a fundamental factor in the
exploration and early settlement of Canada.
The Hudson’s Bay Company, which was founded in
the early 17th century and is still in existence, made
its fortune through this trade. For its role in Canada's
early economic development, the X has been
honoured with a depiction on the Canadian nickel.
X hats were made in various styles as a matter of civil
status: the Wellington, the Paris beau, the
d‘Orsay, the Regent and the Clerical. In addition, as a
matter of military status: the Continental Cocked
hat, Navy cocked hat, and the Army shako.

59
Identify the comedy duo shown here as well as
the person they are spoofing.

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders spoofing Marlene
Dietrich singing “Where have all the flowers gone”

60

Where would you find this /
What do these signify?

Gandhi’s footsteps leading to where he was
assassinated – Birla House, New Delhi

In connection with the reissue of a certain novel in
2006, many of the never before seen photographs
in the book were displayed at the posh shopping
centre at Khan Market in New Delhi. More
astonishing than the images blown up large as life
was the number of shoppers who seemed not to
register them – surprising considering the gut-
wrenching and violent content of the images – and
the fact that many of the people there had lived
through it all in the Punjab.
ID reissued book and photographer.

Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
Margaret Bourke-White

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 Geography
 History
 Literature
 Entertainment
 Sports
 Lifestyle/Culture
 Current Affairs
 Science

Geography
1. Founded by the Macedonians as Alexandria in
Arachosia, the city today bears a name which is
derivation of its Persianized name.
2. Derived from the capital of an ancient Hindu
kingdom in the area – though the modern city
and said capital are not geographically identical.
3. From the Uzbek words for “river of sugar candy”
4. From the PIE words for “fortress with stone walls”
5. From a city founded by the Indo-Parthian king
who was visited by St. Thomas

Kandahar
1. Alexandria – Iskandariya – Kandahar

2. Gandhara – Kandahar

3. Qand (sugar candy) + a-har (of river) – Kandahar

4. Kand (wall) + Har (stone mountain) – Kandahar

5. Gondophares – Gundopharron - Kandahar

History

When King William IV of the United Kingdom and
Hanover died, he was succeeded by Victoria as
Monarch of the United Kingdom and by his brother
Ernst Augustus I as Monarch in Hanover.
Why didn’t Victoria (or Ernst Augustus) succeed to
both thrones like he did?
(Need keywords for full points)

Hanover operated under Salic Law – under which a
woman cannot inherit a kingdom – while the UK
had no such law.
So Victoria succeeded in the UK as a descendant of
George III from his 4th son while Ernst Augustus
who was George III’s 5th son succeeded in Hanover.

Literature
This is the plotline for which work? What has been
blanked out? (Both answers needed/No Part Points)

Wuthering Heights / Heathcliff

Entertainment
ID the voice which you hear talking in this song – he
was famous for acting in low-budget horror flicks in
the 1960’s and 70’s.
His role in Edward Scissorhands had to be cut short
due to his illness and subsequent death from
emphysema and lung disease from smoking (also
listed as the reason behind his gravelly voice).

Sports
The IQA was founded in 2007 following the first
intercollegiate match between Middlebury College and
Vassar College.
Since then the IQA has helped students from more than
400 colleges and 300 high schools form teams. The vast
majority are based in the US, represented in 45 states.
The IQA divides teams into 3 types: High
School, Collegiate, and Community.
The fourth annual World Cup was held on November 13–
14, 2010 in DeWitt Clinton park in NYC. 757 athletes
representing 46 teams competed. For the past 4
years, the World cup has been won by Middlebury
College.

Lifestyle/Culture

This was a popular viral meme in the 1920’s where 2
people would pose and be photographed with the
seemingly beheaded body of one glancing at the
head.
It has become popular again in 2011.
The name by which it is called references arguably
the best example of this – from a piece of literature.
What is it called?
(Examples shown in next slide)

Current Affairs
The image on the next slide shows gradations in %
of X in Europe.
The map has often been used by right-wing
politicians and writers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and most
recently in 2083 – A European Declaration of
Independence by Anders Brevik to demand
stronger laws and adherence to Constitutions.
They use a political neologism Y to describe what
they believe the continent will become in the next
50 years given current rates of X increasing.

X – Islam/Muslims
Y - Eurabia

Science
A population X (or genetic X) is an evolutionary event in
which a significant percentage of a population or species
is killed or otherwise prevented from reproducing.
They reduce the genetic variation and, therefore, the
population's ability to adapt to climate change or newer
resources. The reduction in a population's dispersal
leads, over time, to increased genetic homogeneity. If
severe, population X can also markedly increase
inbreeding due to the reduced pool of possible mates.
One word for X. (See next slide)

T1

X was granted the right, on ceremonial
occasions, to carry a British Army regimental-style
'colour' or flag bearing its own coat of arms with a
picture of the Residency and the words "Defence of
Y, 1857". It thus became the only school in the
world to be awarded a British battle honour.
ID X and Y.

La Martiniere Boy’s college, Lucknow

T2

On 15th September 2011, astronomers announced
the discovery of a real planet Kepler-16b that orbits
two suns.
The planet orbits two stars that are also circling
each other, one about two-thirds the size of our
sun, the other about a fifth the size of our sun.
Give me an entertainment related one-word
connect that you first came across in 1977 – then in
1980, 1983, 1999, 2002 and 2005. (see image on
next slide)

T3

This is Faisal Shahzad who was
sentenced to life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole
in October 2010. When asked by
the judge "Didn't you swear
allegiance to this country?"
Shahzad, a naturalized citizen replied, “I
sweared, but I didn't mean it.“
How do we better know him?

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