The prelims (with answers) of the Bodhi - General Open Quiz conducted at NUALS,Kochi as part of their fest NAALAM 17.

1.  BODHI – THE OPEN GENERAL QUIZ

2.  25 questions.
 30 points.
 Q11-17 are starred questions.
 Top 6 teams to the finals.
 Switch off the mobile phones.
 Make intelligent guesses.

3.  Perkins Engines (officially Perkins Engines Company
Limited), a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is primarily
a diesel engine manufacturer for several markets
including Agricultural, Construction, Material
Handling, Power Generation and Industrial. It was
established in Peterborough, England, in 1932.
Over the years Perkins has expanded its engine
ranges and produces thousands of different engine
specifications including diesel and gas engines.
 For what specific purpose was the Perkins engines
imported to Kerala in the 1930s?

6.  To use as the engines in the first ever fleet of
KSRTC buses.

7.  The artwork was created by artist Michelle Wibowo
from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering
16,074 entities. The art work measures an enormous
12ft x 8ft and weights 154kg. This was unveiled to
mark Prince William's first Father's Day as a dad.
 What was used to create this artwork?

11.  Originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a
pre-colonial African empire located in what is now
southern Nigeria. The _____ empire was one of the
oldest and most highly developed states in west
Africa, dating back to the 11th century.
 The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition)
described the walls of _____ City and its surrounding
kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out
prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates
by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, _____ City’s walls
were at one point “four times longer than the Great
Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more
material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.
 FITB.

15.  In 1982, X launched his “______ Without Slums”
programme – a politically motivated but heartfelt
campaign to rid the city of its slums and provide a
“life of noble dignity” for the urban poor who, in X’s
words, had been living in an “inferno of garbage”.
 Spain Library Park (Parque Biblioteca España) is a
library park located in the Santo Domingo Savio
neighborhood of ______ . It is named after the
country of Spain, whose government helped fund
the project through the Spanish Agency for
International Development Cooperation.
 Identify X. Fitb.

19.  Lyrics from the song Boom, Like That by Mark Knopfler.
 I'm going to San Bernardino ring-a-ding-ding
Milkshake mixers that's my thing now
These guys bought a heap of my stuff
And I gotta see a good thing sure enough now
Oh my name is not Crock, that's ____ with a ___
Like crocodile but not spelled that way now
It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat
____ style... Boom! like that
Folks line up all down the street
Now I am seeing this girl divide her meat now
And then I get it Wham! as clear as day
My pulse begins to hammer then I hear a voice say:

22.  IT was discovered by a Russian and Indian oil
exploration team operating from the seismic
exploration vessel Academic Arkhangelsky during
mapping of the Gulf of Khambhat (earlier Cambay)
in 1964-67, followed by a detailed survey in
1972.The naming is attributed to a team from a
survey run in 1965 analysed in the Rashmi building
in Peddar Road, Cumballa Hill.
 What am I talking about?

25.  He arrived at the London Zoo on 5 November 1947,hence
the name. He was a tiny baby, weighing just 23 lb (10 kg) and
holding a small tin hot-water bottle.He was the replacement
for Meng, who had died in 1941. He was captured in the
French Cameroons on behalf of Paris Zoo and was traded for
a tiger from Calcutta Zoo.
 He died aged 31 or 32, in 1978 of a heart attack during an
operation on his infected teeth. By this time he had become
an icon. Public awareness of animal behaviour had been
growing, thanks to the ever-improving natural history
programmes on television, while studies by scientists
like Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas and Dian Fossey were
changing the public's attitude towards primates.
 Just identify this icon.

28.  Have a close look at the logo and name the
founder.

31.  The Scotsman described him in 2008 as a "real-life James
Bond able to tame the most powerful cars, while possessing
all the mystique of Zorro."The Sunday Times in 2009
described him as "not a man but an idea, possibly an
extraterrestrial," speculating that, along the lines of the
Spartacus mythology, the more people that were linked
with the character, the stronger the mystery would
become.
 The question of "Who is ____ ____?" has been described as
one of the most-asked queries on the Internet.The Sunday
Times reported that online and text-answering services
rated it as one of the most popular questions of all time,
along with the meaning of life.
 So who is ____ ____?

34.  In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old
spiritualist, came to stay at The Savoy ,Mussoorie with
her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva
Mountstephen, also a spiritualist.
 One morning after Miss Mountstephen had returned
to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously
dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been poisoned
with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. The murder
was never solved and her doctor was also found dead a
few months later, of poisoning. Miss Mounstephen was
later arrested for tampering with her friend’s bottle of
sodium bicarbonate by adding prussic acid to it, though
the court found her not guilty.
 What 1920 literary work was inspired by this murder?

38.  One of his first loves was motorcycles, in fact by 1926
he had already gained a repuation as a reckless
speedster on his Italian Galloni 500 cc (red) with a
sidecar. He began looking for faster motorcycles which
he could enjoy playing with. In 1928 he brought a
250 cm Konigsswellen Moto-Guzzi, which was a racing
motorcycle, he began racing in May 1928, he finished
third. He would go on to compete in around nine other
races. He would give up motorcycle racing as he could
no longer afford it.
 Who was this person, known to us in a totally different
context?

42.  When scouting locations for On Her Majesty's Secret
Service, producer Harry Saltzman used his contacts to
gain permission to use portions of the ________ ____
as SPECTRE headquarters in the film. Saltzman
provided art director Syd Cain with a tour of the
complex, but Cain said that not only would the
location be difficult to light and film inside, but that
artificial sets could be constructed at the studios for a
fraction of the cost.The idea was shelved.
 The entity was constructed during the run-up to
World War II, shortly after the Locarno Conference
and was named after a Minister of War pictured in the
next slide.
 Fitb.

46.  Beyonce paying tribute to whom?

49.  IT is a tile-based German board game for two to five
players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in
2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande
Games and Z-Man Games in English. The board game is
named after a medieval fortified town in southern
France, famed for its city walls. What board game?

54.  Gerard Behar Center is a major arts centre in
Jerusalem for independent theatre, dance, and musical
productions, children's shows, art exhibitions, artist
workshops, and festivals. In 2010 the center hosted
over 900 events with attendance in excess of 263,600
participants. The center includes two theatres and is
home to two dance companies, Kolben and Vertigo.
 The place was widely in the news thanks to the events
which took place here in the early 1960s.
 What happened there?

59.  The ______ ______ _____was a mid-19th century
American art movement started by a group of
landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was
influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which
the movement is named depict the ______ ______
Valley and the surrounding area, including the
Catskill, Adirondack, and the White Mountains;
eventually works by the second generation of artists
associated with this movement expanded to include
other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the
American West, and South America.
 Identify the art movement.

63.  Known informally as ‘Mate in 2’. Its objective is to determine
the two moves that will result in a checkmate and win for
white. The setter of this problem wrote a book containing
18 such problems, along with 53 poems, called Poems and
Problems which was published in 1969.
 Who is this multi-talented man?

66.  This was one of the earliest and strategically most
important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It
connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy.The road
is named after _____ Claudius Caecus, the Roman
censor who began and completed the first section as a
military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite
Wars.
 The road shares its name with a business
establishment of an individual, who was named after
an Italian polymath.
 The next slide shows the remains of this historic road.
 Just name the road/establishment.

70.  Several theories have been put forward as to where X
got inspiration for this character.
 A corn merchant from Edinburgh who won a catering
contract for King George IVs visit to Scotland. He was
buried in Canongate Kirkyard, with a gravestone that is
now lost. The theory is that X noticed the gravestone
and adopted the name of the character.
 One school of thought is that X based his views on the
poor on those of demographer and political economist
Thomas Malthus.
 Which character?

73.  The island’s 1990s struggle for independence is the setting for
the 2006 novel Mister Pip, by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.
The book was made into a film of the same name in 2012.
 An Evergreen Island,a film by Australian documentary
filmmakers Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini of Frontyard
Films, showed the people of the island survived for almost a
decade without trade or contact with the outside world.
 This island was named in honour of this French admiral
pictured in the next slide,who was also the first European to
have sighted this island.However he is also known for lending
his name to another entity which is very commonly seen in
Kerala.
 Identify him/island.

78.  Isabella Stewart Gardner was a leading American art
collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
 Gardner created much fodder for the gossip columns of the day
with her reputation for stylish tastes and unconventional
behavior.
 Her surprising appearance at a 1912 concert wearing a white
headband emblazoned with "Oh, you Red Sox" was reported at
the time to have "almost caused a panic", and remains still in
Boston one of the most talked about of her eccentricities.
 In accordance with the will of Isabella Stewart Gardner,
admittance to the museum is discounted to people wearing
something and is totally free to another group of people.
 Identify both the criterion.(1 +1)

81.  People wearing Boston Red Sox memorabilia.(1)
 Free to anyone named Isabella.(1)

82.  In his work,he describes how he first got to be checked at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
 My heart rate was accelerating and Bob suggested I see the
doctor. Because I was very flexible and had long hands and
feet, I had some early symptoms of ______ syndrome, a
disease that affects connective tissues and can be fatal if
there is leakage to the vessels that lead to the heart. If you
reach out your arms and form a T and your wingspan is
longer than your height, you can be at risk. In my case, those
measurements have always been very close. I didn't know at
the time why the doctor decided to look into this. My mom
and Bob didn't want me to freak out, so they told me it was
simply a good idea to have an EKG test in order to look at
the heart.”.

83.  The ______ syndrome is a genetic disorder of the
connective tissue.The degree to which people are
affected varies. People with this syndrome tend to be
tall, and thin, with long arms, legs, fingers and toes.
 It is named after Antoine ______ , a French
pediatrician who first described the condition in 1896.
 Who is describing his health condition? (1)
 Also name the syndrome. (1)

87.  In 1888, X opened the Consersations Haus restaurant
with Y in Baden-Baden, and the two were then invited
to London by Richard D'Oyly Carte to become the first
manager and chef of the Savoy Hotel, positions they
held from 1889 until 1897.
 The Savoy under X was an immediate success and this
owed everything to the civilized genius of X and his
brilliant chef Y, who introduced the English to the
delicacy of French haute cuisine and many celebrated
dishes invented at the Savoy , including Peach Melba
and the thin toast named after the same singer.
 Identify the manager-chef duo.(1 + 1)

91.  His first attempt at a corporate takeover was in 1984, when
he launched an unsuccessful $7.6 billion bid to buy the
government controlled freight rail company, Conrail.He also
failed in an attempted takeover of kitchen designer Formica
in 1988 and, later, with motorcycle manufacturer Harley-
Davidson.His family owns the majority stake in a certain
entity and this takeover has resulted in several controversies.
 Who and what entity? (0.5+0.5)
 One of the companies that he did purchase successfully
during the 1980s was the nearly bankrupt Zapata Offshore, a
remnant of Zapata Corporation, an oil and gas company
founded by an individual who was the 41st in a certain list.
Who was the founder of Zapata Corporation? (1)

94.  He was instrumental in organizing the Asian Cup qualifying
round tournament, involving Israel, Iran, Pakistan and India, at
the Maharaja’s College Grounds, Ernakulam in 1959 and had
spearheaded a team of organizers in hosting the Santosh Trophy
for the first time in Kerala in 1956.
 He also invited the then Wimbledon champion to play an
exhibition match on 30 January 1938 to popularize Tennis in the
state. Following this, he founded the Trivandrum Tennis Club on
1 February 1938 at Shasthamangalam.He was the first player to
reach 10 finals at a single Grand Slam event. This mark stood
until 2015, when Roger Federer reached his tenth Wimbledon
final.
 Identify the individual who played an important role in
popularizing many sports in the state and also the Wimbledon
champion who was invited to play exhibition matches in Kerala.
(1 + 1)