Finals of Kant get Marx 2.0: a general politics quiz organised by Conquiztadors, the quiz society of Sri Venkateswara College in collaboration with political science department, SVC.

2. RULES
● There are 24 questions in the finals.
● +10/0 on bounce;+10/-5 on pounce.
● Two dry rounds and one written round.
● Chimping is allowed, blocking is not ;)
● The decision of the QM is final and
binding.

3. DRY ROUND
10 Questions
Clockwise direction

4. Q.1 FITB
‘I’m Monique from _________’, is a book written by Monique Macias about her
experiences growing up in the titular capital city _________, halfway across the
world from her birthplace of Equatorial Guinea. She found herself in this
unlikely location as a result of a surprising case of benevolence shown by the
country’s head of state following her father being ousted as the dictator of
Equatorial Guinea.

6. A.1 Pyongyang

7. Q.2 Why was this move ironic?
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against
women and domestic violence, also known as “the ___ Convention”, requires parties
to develop laws, policies and support services to end violence against women and
domestic violence. Turkey is the first country to pull out of the convention, a move
which widely criticized and protested against.
A chilling art exhibition on Meclis-i Mebusan Street attempts to draw attention to
crimes against women in Turkey. It features 440 _____ mounted on a wall symbolising
440 women in Turkey that were murdered by men in 2018, as a contrasting
comparison to an otherwise respectful practice followed in Turkish (and other Asian)
household. What does the exhibition feature?

9. A.2 Istanbul convention, Turkey was the first to enter the
convention; shoes

10. Q.3
In 2017, while China was in a diplomatic standoff with another east asian
country, Chinese authorities confiscated a lot of items of machinery from 2
supermarkets owned by _____ (5), which is this country's retail giant having a
worldwide market. The company accused China of increased safety inspections
ever since it allowed US backed anti missile systems to be deployed on the land
it owns in its home country as a response to threats from its northern
counterpart. Which country, and which retail giant?

12. A.3 South Korea & Lotte

13. Q.4 ID X
In February 2023, an artwork donated by French conceptual artist Jean
Pierre Raynaud was unveiled at Paris’ Pantheon-Sorbonne University
which was a rendition of a nearly century ago monochromatic
composition X that portrayed the suffering wrought by violence and
chaos .

15. A.4 Guernica

16. Q.5 ID X and the protest form.
Blending elements of protests, performance art, and absurdist humor, _____11____
are a sight to behold. The term is a neologism which refers to ____13_____ that is
not quite a ___13___.
Unlike traditional protests, they don't focus on specific political demands or social
grievances. Instead, participants carry signs with deliberately nonsensical slogans
that don't support any clear agenda like “Pudding-Thief”, “X without Agutin!” and
“we support same-sex fights”
While __11___ are predominantly apolitical and playful in nature, their very
existence is a subtle form of social commentary and a creative workaround to the
limitations on freedom of assembly and expression in X.

18. A.5 Russia & Monstrations

19. Q.6 ID the book.
The 2017 bestseller ‘________’ (8) follows the lives of a Korean family that
immigrated to Japan in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of
Japanese colonization, it explores the racism and discrimination faced by
Koreans living in Japan.
The title of the book is a reference to a particular kind of arcade the family
begins to earn money through and also symbolically alludes to how their life
often appears to be gamble with the odds rigged against them.

21. A.6 Pachinko

22. Q.7 How did they voice their opinions and what alleged change did
the parent company deny?
This liberation organization is an underground network of creative activist who
gained notoriety in 1993 after they voiced their concerns against patriarchal
norms by "surgically" altering 300-500 of these special type of entities.
They resurfaced again last year, in light of a pop culture phenomenon, now to
support a global cause, and released a series of videos stating the parent
company is switching to sustainable means for making their products by 2030,
opposite to the crude way, how they are traditionally made. These claims were
later denied by the parent company.

24. A.7 Voice box changed; made of biodegradable materials

25. Q.8 X and Y.
X was responsible for deaths of thousands of people, only in X, a satire written
by Pablo Larrain and Guillermo Calderon he does this as a bloodthirsty vampire
who vows to suppress any revolutionary movement after he witnesses the
beheading of Marie Antoinette in the movie.
The narrator of the movie however speaks in English despite the Spanish
dialogue and is revealed to be Y, who in real life campaigned for the release of X
due to his strategic support in a 1982 geopolitical conflict and admired him for
his ruthless stance on communism.

27. A.8 Pinochet; Thatcher

28. Q.9 ID X
Three urinals are mounted onto the graffiti-bearing concrete slab- piece of X,
which stands approximately three meters wide and 1.8 meters tall. How and why
this historic fragment ended up in such an unusual location isn’t known.
According to Boyd Gaming Corporation, which owns Main Street Station, the X was
already a part of bathroom decor when the company purchased the property in
the 1990s. A spokesman for the corporation noted in a CNN interview that the
bathroom had to be renovated due to “the unusual amount of traffic it gets.”
Female Visitors can take a look at X too, they just have to ask security officers for
an escort to the bathroom when its empty.

31. A.9 Berlin Wall

32. Q.10 ID X and the event documented.
Leni Riefenstahl was a cinema personality known for her “undeniable talent”.
However, regardless of her technical prowess, there has and will always remain a
dark mark against her name and particularly her close collaboration and friendly
relationship with X.
Her involvement in a particular class of films tarnished her reputation, even as
she denied any role or knowledge about the wrongdoings.
One of her major works is a late 1930s film that documents a certain event. The
movie included multiple advanced motion picture techniques like unusual angles,
smash cuts and extreme closeups which were extremely admired, but the film
remains controversial due to the context and reasons mentioned earlier.

34. A.10 X- Hitler, 1936 Olympic games

35. WRITTEN ROUND
+10 for every correct answer. No
negative marking.
Extra +10 for a full house.

36. Q.1 What is the name of this exhibition and where was this first
presented?
This unique photography show was created by European artists JR and Marco.
The idea was to take photographs of people two different kinds of people,
closely associated from both sides but who practice the same trades, blow them
up giant size, and display them on a something which separates them right
under the nose of Europe .It aimed to ease the tension by confronting how
similar they are irrespective of religion.

38. Q.2 What was the headline?
Post this young activist speaking out for Palestine, a German publication
released this headline as a wordplay on a Latin phrase(7,3,5) and her name, to
show she was now unwelcome to the climate movement. Give headline.

39. Q.3 FITB
The ____ __ ______(4,2,6) are an important symbol of Palestinian resistance,
representing how many people hold on to these objects for their hope of coming
back to their homes in the future and passing them on to their children.

40. Q.4 What was the street renamed to?
Earlier this month, the Palestinian town of Jericho renamed one of their streets
in honour of an individual who performed one of the most stirring acts of
activism and livestreamed it in support of Gaza. “We didn’t know him, and he
didn’t know us. There were no social, economic or political ties between us.
What we share is a love for freedom and a desire to stand against these
attacks”, the mayor told a small crowd gathered on this newly renamed road.

41. Please exchange your sheets.

42. Q.1 What is the name of this exhibition and where was this first
presented?
This unique photography show was created by European artists JR and Marco.
The idea was to take photographs of people two different kinds of people,
closely associated from both sides but who practice the same trades, blow them
up giant size, and display them on a something which separates them right
under the nose of Europe .It aimed to ease the tension by confronting how
similar they are irrespective of religion.

45. A.1 Face to Face exhibition & West Bank wall

46. Q.2 What was the headline?
Post this young activist speaking out for Palestine, a German publication
released this headline as a wordplay on a Latin phrase(7,3,5) and her name, to
show she was now unwelcome to the climate movement. Give headline.

48. A.2 Persona Non Greta

49. Q.3 FITB
The ____ __ ______ are an important symbol of Palestinian resistance,
representing how many people hold on to these objects for their hope of coming
back to their homes in the future and passing them on to their children.

51. A.3 Keys of Return

52. Q.4 What was the street renamed to?
Earlier this month, the Palestinian town of Jericho renamed one of their streets
in honour of an individual who performed one of the most stirring acts of
activism and livestreamed it in support of Gaza. “We didn’t know him, and he
didn’t know us. There were no social, economic or political ties between us.
What we share is a love for freedom and a desire to stand against these
attacks”, the mayor told a small crowd gathered on this newly renamed road.

54. A.4 Aaron Bushnell

55. DRY ROUND
10 Questions
Anti-clockwise direction

56. Q.11 ID the sport, the team of the mentioned nation involved and
why the inclusion of D’Oliviera was unacceptable?
In an incident that turned out to create a massive impact in shaping the
international opinion on a highly important issue which prompted changes in the
society and culture of a certain nation as a whole, the inclusion of Basil
D’Oliviera in the touring party turned out to be a hot bone of contention with
the prime minister of the said nation making clear that his inclusion in the team
was unacceptable.
This prompted international uproar, coming across as a watershed moment
culminating in the three decade long sporting boycott of the nation concerned.
Later, this eventually led to the trophy contested between the two teams being
named in his honour.

58. A.11 Cricket , South Africa, He was a person of colour

59. Q.12 FITB
Biju Patnaik is considered a hero in this Southeast Asian country and was even
conferred the ‘Bintang Jasa Utama’ award for the heroic role he played when Dutch
colonists had tried to gain control over that country in 1947. The former CM had also
founded the _______ Airlines that operated the Dakota planes in the early years of
Independence. These planes played a significant role in the aforementioned country.
Patnaik also revived the old _______-____ Yatra in 1992, to find out the old trade route
between the two nations. The sailboat INSV-SAMUDRA began its journey from
Paradeep in 1992 and reached ____, a province in the other nation, in 1993. Today, this
Yatra is still celebrated in one of the cities of the East coast.

61. A.12 Kalinga & Bali

62. Q.13 ID X AND Y.
In 1952, an ad endorsing X for president made history as the first televised
political commercial. Now legendary, the “I Like ___” ad was not paid for by the
National Republican Committee but by “Citizens for X. Adlai Stevenson II, his
opponent, felt that the ad trivialized serious political issues and referred to it as
the worst thing he ever heard.
The work for this advertisement was undertaken by unpaid volunteers of a mass
media and entertainment conglomerate Y which celebrated its 100th year
anniversary last year.

64. A.13 Dwight Eisenhower & Disney

65. Q.14 ID X and Y.
X and Y are connected by the common epithet (4, 2, 6) they share that
they received for their similar qualities.
The epithet was originally given to X who grew and united the region he
belonged to an unprecedented extent. Prior to his ascendancy, the region
he belonged to had numerous warring confederacies.
It was again used for another distinct person born more than eight decades
after X - Y known for his revolutionary tendencies.
Both X and Y are highly revered figures in the region they belong to, known
for their ferocity and regalness.

67. A.14 Maharaja Ranjit Singh & Lala Lajpat Rai

68. Q.15 ID song name and original phrase.
_____ _____(s) is a commentary on xenophobic paranoia that intensified
followed a tragic historical event in early part of the millenium. While the
song’s alliterative title refers to counterfeit visa documents (and her frustration
about getting a real one due to alleged ties to a militia) , it also evokes the
Maoist phrase “_____ _____(s)” — broadly meaning something or someone who
might appear fierce and powerful but crumples under little force. The sardonic
implication here is that immigrants, feared to be terrorists, are in fact a threat
to no one.

70. A.15 Paper Plane & Paper Tiger

71. Q.16 ID X and the subject of the documentary
X: How Britain Reinvented Slavery tells the story of how the british continued
the practice of exploiting workers and forcing them to work in inhumane
conditions, changing the global demographics and economy in the process.
X was a term used by the british to refer to unskilled migrant labour but is
associated to a particular encumbering profession in the Indian context.
Combining archive footage and historical evidence the documentary includes
interviews with descendents of the victims, carrying century old baggage of
the of systemic abuse and the lasting impact on communities.

73. A.16 Coolie and Indentured Labour

74. Q.17 ID the titular character and the narrator
_5_ is a dramatised play about the life of a very famous argentine political
figure known for campaigning for women’s suffrage in Argentina and founding
the Female _____ist party.
The narrator is named X, a term used in Argentina as a colloquial term for an
acquaintance. He describes himself as “a man who grew and saw / from
seventeen to twenty-four / his country bled, crucified.” Dressed in army
fatigues, he accuses the protagonist of selfishness and hypocrisy.

76. A.17 Eva Peron; Che Guevera

77. Q.18 Identify the term.
The term was originally used by the French military to refer to a small group
that scouted ahead of the main force.
The __________ Party, a significant aspect of Marxist theory, based on the idea
that a small group of highly disciplined and politically conscious individuals
should lead the revolution on behalf of the working class derived its name from
this term.
In reference to art, the term means any artist, movement, or artwork that is
regarded as innovative and boundaries-pushing.

79. A.18 Avant garde party

80. Q.19 ID X,Y and what would one find in this bunker?
Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, marked the World Press Freedom day last year by using
the popular online shooter game X to bypass certain media restrictions imposed by Y which
were used to separate its citizens from the truth .The game has a large global following and
fairly popular among young men of Y.
To cater to this particular demographic about the information of an event, the newspaper
built a map in the game of an unspecified Slavic city and named it de_voyna in reference to
the word voyna meaning ____- the use of which was banned in Y. When a player arrives in
de_voyna, signage and other clues lead them to a secret bunker in the basement of a large
building.

82. A.19 Counter Strike: Global offensive & Russian language coverage
of Russia-Ukraine War.

83. Q.20 What community and who was this Indian representative at
G20 summit?
During G20 summit, a section of participants that mostly include high-level
officials who lead multiple conferences as a personal representative of head of
state are referred to by the name of a certain community, particularly due to
their role.
This role for India was fulfilled by a former NITI Aayog CEO penning his
philosophy with Made in India.

85. A.20 Sherpa & Amitabh Kant