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KQA Open Quiz
January 2013
Finals

Navin Rajaram

ROUND 1
AKKAN JUST LIST-IT
One Question:
+5 for each correct answer
Bonus +10 if you get it all right

Carvaggio’s
“Seven Works of
Mercy”
List all seven
works of mercy
depicted in the
painting

EXCHANGE SHEETS,
ANSWERS FOLLOW…

1- Bury the dead;
2&3 -Visit the
imprisoned, and
feed the hungry;
4 -Shelter the 7
homeless.
1
5 - Clothe the 2
naked;
6 - Visit the sick 4
7 - Refresh the 3
thirsty
5 6

ROUND 2
CLOCKWISE: 16
PASS/INFINITE BOUNCE: +10
INFINITE BUZZ & WRITE: +10, -10

1.
Prophet Mohammed is said to have ordered a herd
of horses to be locked without water for seven days.
When they were released, they rushed towards the
nearest oasis, but before they got there, the Prophet
sounded the war horn, calling them to battle. Five
mares ignored the water and answered the call.

The above is an unverified but interesting back-
story behind what oft-cited legend in sporting
circles?

All Arabian pure-blood (Asil)
horses came from the 5 mares
(also accept Al Khamsa)

2.
Captain Edward Belcher of HMS Samarang visited
them in March 1845, and awed by them, he recorded
“They had the appearance of an upheaved, and
subsequently ruptured mass of compact grey columnar
Basalt, rising suddenly into needle-shaped pinnacles,
which arc apparently ready for disintegration by the first
disturbing cause, either gales of wind or earthquake.”
His description provided the English name: The
Pinnacle Group, which was promptly translated into
Japanese to mean “The Pinnacled Pavilions”.

What did Belcher and later the Japanese name?

3.
A lot of people have surmised that the author
nicknamed the group in his novels so because of all
the political intrigue and trickery involved.
In the novels, people enter the group‟s building
through a side door that is close to the traffic
intersection, formerly a roundabout, of Shaftsbury
Avenue and Charing Cross Road in Central London.
This has proved to be a more enduring and credible
origin theory to the nickname.

Name the author and the organization nickname.

John Le Carre
MI6 known as “The Circus”, from
Cambridge Circus

3.
Coined by an unknown black musician of the
1960s, this term was coined originally to refer to
the hollow and synthetic idea of Mick Jagger
singing a form of music that was uncharacteristic of
the white man.
Paul Mccartney is said to have heard the term and
also found it amusing enough to name an album
modifying the term.

Name the original term and the album name.

4.
The origins of this British magazine date back to the
original literary society founded by Richard Steele in
1709.
Steele‟s magazine got its name because it involved
implanting one journalist in each of London‟s 200
coffee houses of the time to overhear gossip and
news, leaving more serious matters such as politics
to newspapers.
The magazine lasted only 2 years, but the name has
since been adopted by magazines different other
print houses, the latest being a Conde Nast property.

What magazine?

5.
Towards the end of the 19th century, this country was plagued
by a problem caused by the aphid species Phylloxera that
seemed to have found its way through a bunch of seeds
imported from New York.
The government offered a handsome reward, which set about
various chemists to advocate carbon bisulfide as the solution.
In contrast, a faction called the americanistes advocated a
radical solution that was vociferously opposed.
Eventually the americanistes solution won, the award lies
unclaimed in a bank vault and products of the pre Phylloxera
age are valued highly in auctions to this day.

What products were affected and what radical solution by the
americanistes makes the pre-Phylloxera age products highly
valued?

Wines in France
To combat the plague affecting the
plants, resistant American wine rootstock was
grafted onto indigenous French v. vinifera
plants – all wine in France today is a
descendant of Native American
rootstock, making pre-Phylloxera wine highly
priceless.

6.
While it was officially laid to rest in August 1992, a
Wisden article argues that the demise had begun
much earlier when the winter meeting of the Test
and County board in 1980 introduced full covering of
pitches during breaks, giving less assistance to
bowlers.
Some called it a farce and said it forced results only
when assisted by sub-par bowling, proponents have
countered that the MCC‟s failure to restrict the
weight of bats also played a part in this sad demise.

The passing of what is being rued?

7.
They were a reactionary faction, which sat in the French
Parliament from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon
Restoration.
They were called so because they were supposedly more
regal than the king himself and opposed the
constitutional monarchy of Louis XVIII, hoping to restore
the Ancien Regime‟ that existed before the Revolution.
The prefix to their name soon became a noun in its own
sense, and would frequently find mention in Indian
newspapers during the peak of the Punjab insurgency.

Name the faction/term.

Ultra-Royalists, from where we get
Ultras

8.
One of his last projects, it was designed by a good friend
of the President of the country as a monument to the
founding father of the country.
As is typical of the designer, it will have clean, simple
shapes, large spans and will be made out of reinforced
concrete and is 170m long and 110m high. According to
the designer, the arrow shape and its tilt of roughly 45
degrees were for a specific reason.

Who is the designer and who is it dedicated to?
Where does the monument point to?

Pic on next slide

Oscar Neimeyer , Simon Bolivar
Symbolic missile that directionally points
towards Washington DC (United States is
fine) to protest against US imperialism

9.
He was definitely not the first to use these famous words
considering Guiseppe Garibaldi had rallied his troops
similarly in 1849 at Rome, and so did Theodore Roosevelt
while addressing the Naval College in 1897.
Prior to this instance in 1940, he would use the words in
1931 in other contexts, but the significance of this speech
as the first in a series of 3 during the Battle of France
stands out in affirming his faith in the Government and
silencing most of his critics in the House.

Who and what famous words (need specific words)?

Churchill,
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

10.
Shown is the Lundehund, a dog of the breed Spitz that
originates from Norway, whose name literally means _____-
hound since it was developed originally to hunt a certain kind
of prey.
During one time, the prey was thought to be half-bird, half-
fish, Catholics ate them on Fridays and in Lent while on St
Kilda they were used to flavour porridge.
This resulted in huge demand for these dogs due to their extra
flexibility and extra toes, ideal for hunting the prey in their
inaccessible nesting locations on cliffs and in caves.

What prey?

Pic on next slide

11.
In the 18th century, juries in courts were mostly
formed from a bunch of full-time jurors, who were
well known to the government, sympathetic to their
employer and spent their time in pubs near the Old
Bailey.
In the 19th century, this system was reformed with
more than 8000 new qualified names being proposed
to replace these biased jurors. This new process got
the popular moniker pricking.
Why was it called so?

An appointed Master of the Crown opened
a book with the 8000 names , randomly
stabbed a page with his ink nib and that
name was p(r)icked!
(Somewhat like Book Cricket)

12.
In 1702, William Coward wrote a book Second Thoughts in
which he mocked the then Christian notion of a soul in
hell and suggested that non penitent murders sent to the
gallows would not mind an afterlife in hell.
A chaplain, John Broughton was so offended by this
treatise that he wrote a rebuttal in which he referred to
these condemned souls in the lines: “he urges the Case of
those that ___ ___, as they call it, at Tyburn...”

This is the first instance of which term, that later
evolved to be used in doomed war scenarios and is now
making a nauseating comeback for the 5th time?

13.
Snippets from an episode called “NASA Space
Station” from the acclaimed “This is America,
Charlie Brown “ animated series, released in 1988.
This was fourth of only 6 movies/films for which
someone composed music. Who?

<Video removed and was clipped to play selected
timestamps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lipaKIqlDw>

14.
In 1926, he visited Balatonfüred, Hungary, where he
developed a heart ailment, was advised rest in the salubrious
environs of Lake Balaton. During this time, he wrote his only
bilingual work, published in 1927.
He would send a facsimile personal edition to Priyambada
Devi, a poetess of note in India. Initiated by her alarmed
letter, an exchange followed in which he wrote
“I knew I had the propensity to write and forget, and there had
always been a self-deprecating anger in me for this forgetfulness.
Thus, I had to agree that the few poems he had collected were mine.
When I read them, I thought I had written them very well…”

Who is the author and what was the context?

Tagore, in whose collection of poems
Lekaan, some were (inadvertently?)
plagiarised from Priyambada Devi

15.
Shown is an 1870 watercolor of Charles Dickens‟ study,
painted soon after his death. The painting is so named
because of the conspicuous absence of the occupant of
the seat in the room.
Wildly popular, a copy of the picture was purchased
by an individual who moved to London a few years
after the novelist‟s death and was inspired to channel it
into his craft.

Name the original painting &
Name the individual who was thus inspired by it.

Pic on next slide

Empty Chair
Van Gogh – he made paintings of empty
chairs, empty beds, etc

16. It is said that the craft was born with the
Chettiars‟ propensity for lavish outer courtyards to
display wealth and prosperity.
The craft involves taking local clay and then laying it
wet along with pigment in a metallic mould with a
glass base, after which pigments laid upon the glass
are swirled and the side touching the glass base
catches the pigment artwork.

What craft, that has been nominated for GI?

ROUND 3
IMMANUEL KANT, CAN YOU?
8 Questions from the Action
Philosopher Comics
Written : +10 (Parts where apply)
Bonus +10 for getting all right

2. Identify the man
with the moustache
and the word blanked
in row 2, left panel
(been blanked
elsewhere too in the
strip).

3. Man of contradictions. Who?

5. When the woman in
the picture fell into a
self imposed depression,
the Canadian born
psychiatrist in the
picture helped her
overcome it and opened
the N.B.I. , a school to
expound her principles.
Name both.

6. Name the teacher-
disciple pair.

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince

ROUND 4
ANTI-CLOCKWISE: 16
PASS/INFINITE BOUNCE: +10
INFINITE BUZZ & WRITE: +10, -10

1. An explanation for something:
We invented ______ to avoid continually mentioning the
timeline and getting into arguments about whether this or that
would have developed by then.
Pick any combination of four numbers plus a percentage point,
use it as your story's ______. For example, 1313.5 is twelve
o'clock noon of one day and 1314.5 would be noon of the next
day. Each percentage point is roughly equivalent to one-tenth
of one day. The progression should only remain constant in
your episode but don't worry about whether or not there is a
progression from one episode to the other. At the end of the day,
it’s a mathematical formula and it is allowed to vary widely.

2.
When the idea was conceived, the goal was to sweep through
Europe and not conquer cities or industry but capture the
French Army and even bypass Paris. But the planers were too
seduced by the notion of enveloping France with a right wing
army attacking from north west and the left wing army from
east.
The possible inspiration quoted by one of the planners, was
“"A battle of annihilation can be carried out today according to the
same plan devised by _______ in long forgotten times. The enemy
front is not the goal of the principal attack. The mass of the troops
and the reserves should not be concentrated against the enemy front;
the essential is that the flanks be crushed. .. To bring about a decisive
and annihilating victory requires an attack against the front and
against one or both flanks..”

What idea, that eventually failed, and what inspiration?

Schlieffen Plan
Hannibal’s strategy at Cannae

3.
Mario Pei‟s 1949 book “The Story of Language” has
perpetuated the more popular theory where the acronym
for 19th century activist group that protested
unwholesome diets led to the alternate name for this
edible.
This theory being quite unlikely, a more acceptable
theory came from the name of the sharp, narrow tool
used to dig up large rooted plants which then lent its
name to the plant on which it was most used.

What edible and what alternate name?

Pic on next line

4.
In the early 1900s, the US National Weather Service
used a certain convention, that led to early aviation
simply copying this system.
As airline service exploded in the 1930s, towns
without weather stations also needed to be added to
this group. Some bureaucrat had a brainwave,
leading to a convention that solved the need but
caused lot of grief to cities using the original
convention such as Los Angeles and Portland.

What convention changed in the 1930s and how did
these two cities overcome the problem?

2-letter airport codes became 3-letter
airport codes
LA and PD simply added a meaningless
but utilitarian X to their airport codes –
giving LAX, PDX

6.
The history of this now ubiquitous convenience goes back
to New Jersey when a wine merchant Albert Speer received
the patent in 1871 and it was deployed along the 3500-ft
Chicago river pier for 1893 World‟s Fair at 5 cents a ride.
By 1900, ambitious plans to use it to relieve New York‟s
massive congestion problems were proposed but failed due
to implementation concerns and reliability concerns.
In May 1954, it made a comeback in a Jersey City railway
station, going on to be further improved for safety and
become almost a necessity at huge ports of transit.

What convenience?

7. In 1991 a group of Austrian art students on a trip to
Prague found a curious black, compact and rudimentary
camera in a photographic shop. On developing the shots
on it, they found rich, saturated images with a tunnel-like
effect; an effect heightened by the lens's tendency to
darken the corners of the frame.
With the help of the mayor of Leningrad, they entered
into negotiations to persuaded the then defunct Soviet era
camera manufacturers to resume production and a craze
began with the first _______ Society International being
setup in 1992.

What photography movement that celebrated its 20th
anniversary in 2012 and who was the young mayor?

Lomography/LOMO cameras (Leningrad
Optics and Mechanics Association)
Vladimir Putin

8.
A tropical rainforest plant native to the rainforests of
southern Mexico and Colombia, its scientific name
Monstera deliciosa
Among the many reasons attributed to how they look is
an evolutionary adaptation to resist hurricane winds,
better temperature regulation or water to run through
the plants down to its roots and camouflage. Recent
research attributes it to the need to capture more flecks
sunlight, a paradoxical but scientifically explicable
cause.

What are these plants popularly called?

Pic on next slide

9.
On a train journey to Boston in 1923, the composer got the first
ideas of this piece. He told his biographer
“It was on the train with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so
often so stimulating to a composer ... And there I suddenly heard, and
even saw on paper – the complete construction of the _____, from
beginning to end. I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of
America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of
our metropolitan madness.

Originally, it was titled American _____ but a visit to a gallery
exhibition of James Whistler‟s paintings which bear titles such
as Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and Arrangement in
Grey and Black convinced a renaming.

Name piece and composer.

George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

10.
First used in 1982, they measured 5.59 in x 4.92 in x 0.39
in with two opposing transparent halves of polystyrene
hinged together.
While most people assume that the name is an artifact
from an industry dealing with more valuable items, the
name is said to be reflective of the high quality of
design and the constant refinements to create the
„perfect package‟ and in reference to the designers‟
specification to polish the ribs of the product to pick up
light and shine, hence giving the name.

What name?

11.
Shown are two popular auxiliary support items used in the
game of billiards and snooker called rests
A – One kind of rest has longer legs supporting the head so
that the cue is higher and can reach over and around an
obstructing ball.
B – The other is raised by longer supporting legs, but instead
of a selection of grooves on the top for the cue to rest in there
is only one, on the end of an overhanging neck, so a player
can bypass multiple obstructing balls.
Both A & B are named after creatures whose anatomical
properties they seem to imbibe.

Pic on next slide

12.
In Gujarat, the Uttarayan kite flying festival is held on January 14
to coincide with Pongal/Sankranti elsewhere.
On cutting another‟s kite, the more urban Gujarati will yell
“Kaade Lapet” which effectively means “Cut your kite, now
wind your string up”. A more traditional yell is ____ ____ ___
meaning “I have cut” and is more commonly heard in rural
dialects.

A cult Indian work is now finding association with this term,
which to the non-Gujarati aware South Indian can also be
misinterpreted to mean “my hand got screwed” (somewhat apt
given the kite flying context).

What is the term and what Indian work?

Kai Po Che, Chetan Bhagat’s “ 3 Mistakes
of My Life”

13.
An orphan at 11, she requested her uncle to be her legal guardian
and was consequently enrolled into boarding schools and later
introduced into fashionable business circles by him.
Due to matters not entirely in her control, she was thrust into
national limelight in 1857 as “Democratic Queen”, and inspired
an entire generation of women‟s hair styles, clothes with
plunging necklines and even became an advocate for Native
American rights.
Possibly rivalled in fame only by Jacqueline Kennedy, a US
Presidential yacht was named after her.

Who and what small but exclusive group of women is she a
part of?

Pic on next slide

Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan
One of two women who were First Ladies of
the US without being married to the President
(Emily Donelson, Andrew Jackson’s niece
was the other.)

14.
Created in 1989 by Carol Twombly of Adobe it was inspired
by the inscriptions at the base of the European monument
shown in the picture.
Since the inscription and its writing form manifested only
in one case, the end product was also all-caps. It gained
popularity in various forms – in movie posters, university
logos, covers of John Grisham paperbacks and given its
statesman like credentials, in various political campaigns.

What typeface?

Pics on next slide

Trajan, after Trajan’s Column

15.
Depending on how you look at it, the word has two distinct and
opposite meanings:
The original English meaning of it is in reference to a matter up
for debate or discussion, so you find references to it as a suffix in
witgane____ - the assembly of Anglo-Saxons. J R R Tolkien being
particularly fascinated with this usage used it in the context of a
meeting of Ents (as shown in the picture).

As time evolved, the Americans have taken it and used it in their
version of English to mean the exact opposite.

What word?

Pic on next slide

16.
In this video, Sheldon plays one of the earliest interactive
fiction computer games, written using the MDL
programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer.
The game was initially named Dungeon but when the
programmers received a violation notice from Dungeons
and Dragons, they named it after MIT slang for an
unfinished program. What game?

<Video removed. Check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEaODMt_NYQ>

ROUND 5
APPAGRAMS
(APPU+ANAGRAMS)
6 Pairs of Questions- each part is an
anagram of the other
+5 per part i.e. +10 for each pair

1.
a) An occupation that connects poet/novelist Charles
Bukowski, Aussie cricketer Brad Hogg, Steve Carrell
and (unofficially) basketball player Karl Malone

b) Plural for a word that comes from the French word
for something that would „stop a hole‟ or „plug a gap‟

2.
a) A slang for the telephone in the United
Kingdom, that came from the Royal Naval ship where
communication was direct, through a voice pipe with a
whistle which could attract the person at the other end
which had a similar whistle.

b)It was developed to fulfill an order by the firm Lock
& Co. for gamekeepers, later adopted by
cowboys, lawmakers and railroad workers because it
withstood strong winds.

3.
a) A word that describes one character in each of the
following books: Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier),
Everyman (Philip Roth), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison),
The Power and The Glory (Graham Greene)

b)What Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Jack
Lemmon and Ed Harris are in the movie Glengarry Glen
Ross.

4.
a) Tiger : Capuchin :: Las Vegas : Bangkok --- ?

b) A term borrowed from architecture for protruding
support structures applied in finance where people
have money holdings due to lack of
ability/opportunity to spend them or where
organizations have huge debts preventing them
from borrowing any more money.

5.
a) A process referring to the pollution of water by fine
particulate material such as suspended sediments or
clay and resulting from soil erosion or sediment spill.
b) A situation when a vessel heels or leans starboard or
port, owing to its uneven loading or flooding.

6.
a) What did people do here?

6.
b) An adjective that possibly figures in the title of a
compilation album of all the best hits of a band. Maybe
the man below can help.

EXCHANGE SHEETS,
ANSWERS FOLLOW

1.
a) An occupation that connects poet/novelist
Charles Bukowski, Aussie cricketer Brad Hogg,
Steve Carrell and (unofficially) basketball player
Karl Malone

b) Plural for a word that comes from the French
word for something that would „stop a hole‟ or
„plug a gap‟

2.
a) A slang for the telephone in the United Kingdom,
that came from the Royal Naval ship where
communication was direct, through a voice pipe with a
whistle which could attract the person at the other end
which had a similar whistle.

b)It was developed to fulfill an order by the firm Lock
& Co. for gamekeepers, later adopted by cowboys,
lawmakers and railroad workers because it withstood
strong winds.

3.
a) A word that describes one character in each of the
following books: Rebecca (Daphne Du
Maurier), Everyman (Philip Roth), Invisible Man
(Ralph Ellison), The Power and The Glory (Graham
Greene)

b)What Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Jack
Lemmon and Ed Harris are in the movie Glengarry Glen
Ross.

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