This document provides the rules and format for the HAGS Quiz, which covers history, arts, games, and science. It will have 4 rounds, including a "Wri-st It" history round with short answer history questions worth 30 points total, and an "Infinite Pounce" round with multiple choice and short answer questions worth various point values. The document explains the rules of scoring and provides examples of questions that will be asked in each round covering various topics in the categories of history, science, arts, and games.

1. Welcome to the HAGS Quiz
(History, Arts, Games, and Science)
20th May 2017
Research and Conducted by
Bedbyas Datta
Somasish Ghosh

2. Rules
• Last Names are enough.
• First answer will be taken.
• No Prompting.
• Conservation/ Non-Conservation of points is
mentioned in the Slide.
• Correct answer won’t be revealed in parts.
• Pounce questions of are of 10/15/20 points.
• A constant -5 irrespective of the questions, this is
to encourage more pouncing

3. JEE style Tips
• Most of the questions are inter-disciplinary
• Time frames and regions mentioned in the
questions are very important to get to the
answer
• Clues are present in the question
• For games question, don’t ask question to QM
because he has a very limited knowledge

4. 4 Rounds
• Wri-st It – History
• Infinite Pounce – 8 Questions
• Wri-st It – Science
• Infinite Pounce – 8 Questions

5. Wri-st It - History
• Total 9 elements
• Each element carries 3 points
• 3 bonus points for all correct
• First 9 answers will be considered
• Total – 30 points
• Hints to each element is provided
• Order does not matter

6. Barbarians Rising, a docudrama on History Channel
tells the stories of 9 leaders that fought against
Rome. List all the leaders.
• Brilliant tactics at Battle of Cannae lead to 10:1 mortality
rate in his favour
• Leader of the Lusitanian War
• Died during the Third Servile War
• Chieftain of the Cherushi tribe who was also a Romanized
lieutenant
• Leader of the Iceni tribe
• Defeated Rome in the Battle of Adrianople
• Sacked Rome in the Third Siege
• The scourge of God who lost at the Battle of Chalons
• Born near Hungary, settled in Hispania for some time and
then moved to North Africa

8. • Hannibal
• Viriathus
• Spartacus
• Arminius
• Boudica
• Fritigern
• Alaric
• Atilla
• Geiseric

9. Infinite Pounce – 8 Questions

10. The Dubliners have a liking of giving
notorious nicknames to the public
artworks. For example these two are
called ‘The Prick with the Stick’ and ‘The
Queer with the Leer’. Be like a Dubliner
and name the artwork in the next
slide(10C points). Also, Identify these
two gentlemen(5NC+5NC)

13. Hags with Bags, Joyce, Wilde

14. • Deciphering the Cosmic Number, a book by Arthur
Miller looks into the relationship between a scientist
and a famous person who gave an philosophical
interpretation of quantum mechanics. One of the
questions they explored is that why this prime
number figures in electroweak theory, quantum
electrodynamics, solid-state physics. The scientist so
intrigued with the number that he died in a hospital
room of the same number and the collaborator was
the last person he saw before dying at the Zurich
Hospital.
• What is this number? Who are these two
gentlemen?(5C+5C+5C)

16. 137, Pauli, Jung

17. • This is an image from concert title Reunion
(1962). Id these two gentleman in the image who
were playing a game of chess and
composing Aleatoric music by triggering a series
of photoelectric cells underneath the chessboard.
• Also, aleatoric meaning chance or random derives
its name form a Latin word for what? (5C+5C+5C)

19. Cage, Duchamp, Dice

20. • Holistic Face Categorization in Higher Order Visual
Areas of the Normal and Prosopagnosic Brain ( face
blindness – impairment of recognising faces while
other functionalities such as object determination
remain intact) is a paper written by Roission et al.
which uses stimulus caused by [the answer] to
understand the categorisation of faces at global level
rather than their local parts.
• What is used by neuroscientists to determine the
presence of Prosopagnosic Brain that recognize local
images but fail to perceive the global
configuration?(10 points)

22. Paintings of Arcimboldo

23. • 'A Few Acres of Snow' is
a two-player deck-
building game. The two
sides are the British and
French forces.
• The title of this game is a
reference to what?
(5C+5C+5C)

25. • Words of consolation by Voltaire to Louis XV after
France lost a portion of modern-day Canada to
Britain in the Seven Years’ War/ French and Indian
Wars

26. • Wimmelbilderbuch , German word for "teeming picture
book" is characterized by full-spread drawings depicting
scenes richly detailed with numerous humans, animals,
and objects. These are usually made for children, the
drawings are filled with characters and items that may be
discovered. Name these two gentlemen who are
considered the fathers of this format. Also, why this
format gained popularity starting from 1987?(5C+5C+10C)

30. Bosch, Bruegel, Where’s Waldo

31. According to Aulus Cornelius Celsus in De Medicina (ca. AD
30) what backfiring recipe contains:
costmary, sweet flag, hypericum, natural gum,
sagapenum, acacia, poppy-tears, parsley, anise,
saxifrage, darnel, storax, castoreum, frankincense,
opopanax, malabathrum, turpentine-resin,
galbanum, opobalsam, rhubarb root, saffron,
ginger, cinnamon and few others.

33. Mithridate

34. • The photographs taken after an historical event on
October 10 1967, was considered by many to represent a
"Christ-like" visage. English art critic John Berger
Observed that they resembled two famous paintings,
one was Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation over the Dead
Christ. Which was the other painting? (5C points)
• Which event are we talking about?(10NC points)

36. Assassination of Che Guevara, The
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

37. Wri-st It - Science
• Describe each one in two to three words.
• Order does matter
• Each one carries 5 points
• Connection gets you 10 points
• Total 30 points

38. 1. On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the
Production and Transformation of Light
2. On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in a
Stationary Liquid, as Required by the Molecular
Kinetic Theory of Heat
3. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
4. Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its
Energy Content?

40. Annus Mirabilis papers by
Einstein/1905 papers
1. Photoelectric effect
2. Brownian Motion
3. Special relativity
4. Mass-Energy Equivalence/ E=mc2

41. • Which Hungarian is considered a pioneer theorist
in child-rearing, who believed "geniuses are
made, not born". His experiment with his children
has been called "one of the most amazing
experiments…in the history of human
education”. This experiment had an impact on
which great debate, a favourite of child
psychologists? Who coined the phrase by which
this debate is known?(10NC+5C+5C)

43. Polgar, Nature vs. Nurture,
Galton

44. • In this board game each player guides
a species of primitive amoeba controlling how
their amoebas move, eat and procreate using the
10 biological points which s/he receives each turn.
A player may evolve their species by
buying gene cards, which give the amoebas
abilities such as faster movement.
• This board game gets its name from which theory
proposed by Oparin and an English scientist?(10C)
• Who is the English scientist and which famous
1952 experiment supported this theory?(5C+5C)

46. Primordial Soup, Haldene,
Miller-Urey Experiment

47. • The Gold-Bug, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
involves cryptography to solve a simple cipher
using a basic technique. The encoded message
and the solution are in the next slide.
• How was this cipher solved?(10NC points)
• While reading this story an inventor came up with
the idea of his iconic creation. Who is this
inventor and what did he invent?(5C+5NC)

48. A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the de
vil's seat twenty-one degrees and thirteen mi
nutes northeast and by north main branch se
venth limb east side shoot from the left eye o
f the death's-head a bee line from the tree th
rough the shot fifty feet out.

50. Frequency distribution, Butts,
Scrabble

51. • According to the inventor’s autobiography, his
invention was inspired by a conversation with X
pertaining to the steel required for better artillery.
The inventor claimed that it "was the spark which
kindled one of the greatest revolutions that the
present century had to record, for during my solitary
ride in a cab that night from Vincennes to Paris, I
made up my mind to try what I could do to improve
the quality of iron in the manufacture of guns.”
• Who is this inventor? Whom did he meet? What was
the issue at hand that got many English scientists
interested? (5C+5C+5C)

53. Bessemer, Napoleon III, Crimean
War

54. • The Siege of this Dutch city is one of the few major
successes in the later of the war. Before the siege,
Spanish decided that the warfare against the heavily
fortified Dutch cities were too wasteful and it would
be better to have the army diverted for another war.
But, the suspension of hostilities in Germany made
the Spanish army concentrate their forces to this city
and subsequently they captured it. One of the most
famous paintings depicting the city’s surrender is
shown in the next slide.
• Which city? Who is the painter? Which two wars were
the Spanish army occupied with? (5C+5C+5C+5C)

57. Breda, Velazquez, Thirty Years’
War, Eighty Years’ War

58. • Yanomami are a group of indigenous people living in
Amazons near the Brazil-Venezuela border. They are
also referred as virgin people because of they are
untouched by the white people. They were studied
by Chagnon and Lizot from mid-1960s to 1990s who
came into controversy because of various reasons.
One particular allegation made in the book Darkness
at El Dorado was that Chagnon was a member of
Atomic Energy Commission and they were funding
this study for the collection of blood.
• Why was the Atomic Energy Commission interested
in their blood?(10 points)

60. To calculate the base level of
naturally occurring radiation

61. Couple Walking among Olive
Trees in a Mountainous
Landscape with Crescent Moon
by Van Gogh is either misleading
because the couple is clearly
taking a walk during the day or
Van Gogh’s science teachers did
not teach him a basic lesson of
the night sky. What lesson? (10
points)
Night sky being so bright is not
an acceptable answer.

63. The vertices of a crescent moon
always points away from the
horizon in the night.

64. • Humberstone and Santa Laura Y Works (UNESCO world
heritage site), Maria Elena, Chacabuco and some other
170 ghost towns saw a lot of boom in latter half of 19th
century because of the discovery of a precious
commodity which gives these towns the name ‘X towns’.
The region where these were found were shared by 3
countries and thus became a cause of war in last quarter
of the 19th century which was also known as Y war. What
is X? Which war/Y? (5C+5C)
• However, starting from 1910’s people started deserting
these towns. Why?(5C)
• Chacabuco, unlike others, did find some use in 1973 and
1974. How?(5C)

67. Nitrate, Saltpetre/War of the Pacific
Discovery of Bosch-Haber process
Pinochet’s regime used it as a concentration
camp