Roman Forum Speaker's Platform and Anatomy Terms Discussed

UNITHREE
PHASE ONE
WRITTEN ON THE BODY
5 WRITTEN X10 POINTS EACH
STAKE +5/+10 FOR EQUAL NEGS
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1
The platform stand for public speakers in the Roman
Forum was decorated with the beaks or prows of
ships taken in the first naval victory of the Roman
republic, over Antium, in 338 B.C.E.
That is how a word meaning beak also came to mean
a place from where you speak.
What word? (7)
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2
The word is literally a small key.
So called supposedly from its function as the
"fastener" of the shoulder.
What word? (8)
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3
The Latin word for flute is also their word for a
certain bone, a happy development, historically
speaking, since the first flutes were sourced from this
bone.
Either give the common English word for this bone,
or the Latin word.(8/5)
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4.
In Greek, this word meant windpipe, or anything
carrying air. Possibly because when the ancients such as
Galen looked at the human body they found these
structures to be empty,.
Give us a 6-letter word.
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5.
Its roots lie in the word for work, and originally meant
that with which we do work--a tool or an instrument.
This is probably how the word went into both anatomy
and music.
What word? (5)
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ANSWERS
1. ROSTRUM
2. CLAVICLE
3. SHINBONE OR TIBIA
4. ARTERY
5.ORGAN
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UNITHREE
PHASE TWO
CLOCKWISE
10 X10 POINTS EACH
Pounce 10+/-5
Complete answers necessary for pounce
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1. In Alan Moore’s Promethea, one of the first people that
the superhero protagonist meets when she enters the
realm of the imagination is X, shown on the right in both
images. Who is X? Blow-up follows.
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ANSWER
Red Riding Hood
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2. This joke campaign featuring a Nurhadi and a made-up figure named Aldo won a lot of
attention in a recent presidential election.
Where? What shortform was used to publicise the campaign? (5+5)
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ANSWERS
Indonesia
Dildo for president.
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3
Photographs from an event organised in a European capital on 1 April this year.
Which city? What are these people attempting? (5+5)
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ANSWER
Budapest
Tribute to the Ministry of Silly Walks
episode from Monty Python.
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4. This is Leo, a sea lion at the Yokohama Sea Paradise. Why did this photograph go viral
earlier this year?
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ANSWERS
Reiwa, the name for the new Japanese
monarch’s reign.
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5
Logo of an American company that uses badnaam
technology for humanitarian purposes in Africa.
What exactly do they do?
Your answer should have TWO keywords in it.
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ANSWERS
Drones to ship vaccines/blood/medicines
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6
The species X has a common 6-letter name, and a generic name that you can get from
this picture. The map shows its incidence across Eurasia, while the colours represent
breeding/visiting/resident patterns. Y=bv. G=br, B=nbv. Give one of the two common
names for X. (3)
Operation Y was named after the species X and ran from May 1989 till about 30 June
1997, and saw the active involvement of three British PMs—Thatcher, Major and Blair.
It may have involved up to 135 separate projects.
What was it about? Why was it wound up inside that specific timeframe? (3+4)
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ANSWERS
Yellowbird or Siskin
Operation was aimed at helping dissidents
escape China via Hong Kong before it was
handed back in 1997.
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7
These are photographs from 2013 and 2017 respectively, arising from media attempts at
tracing somebody from the 1980s. They seem to show that he went from being sound
recordist to auto-driver in Bangalore.
Who/What is his claim to fame?
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ANSWERS
Shafiq Syed who played Chaipau in Mira
Nair’s Salaam Bombay
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8
In March 2019, the editors of The Economist compared a two-
year effort that had just been completed to a slightly more
literary 1850-51 effort, similar only in that the target got away.
What was the contemporary effort? What was the target in
the 1850-51 effort?
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ANSWERS
Mueller Report
Moby Dick/The Great White Whale
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9
The photographer Nan Goldin and her group PAIN led this protest
earlier this year.
Where was it held? What ‘form’ did their protest take? What
were they protesting? (3+3+4)
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ANSWERS
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Die-in, protesting the Sackler family’s role
in marketing Oxycontin—leading to the
opioid crisis.
The Sacklers are benefactors of the
Guggenheim
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10
This is the last stanza of a poem by Diana Ferrus, titled” I’ve come to take
you home”.
I have come to take you home
where the ancient mountains shout your name.
I have made your bed at the foot of the hill,
your blankets are covered in buchu and mint,
the proteas stand in yellow and white –
I have come to take you home
where I will sing for you
for you have brought me peace.
The poem is said to have spurred an international effort since its publication
in 1978 that finally .succeeded in 2002, on Women’s Day.
Who is the poem addressed to? What happened in 2002? (5+5)
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ANSWERS
Sarah Baartman, also called The Hottentot
Venus
France returned her remains to South Africa
for burial
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UNITHREE
PHASE THREE
SNOWBALL
5X10 POINTS EACH
IF THEY PASS, THEY GATHER +1 EACH TIME
NO POUNCE
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1.
This is sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon’s tribute to a
contemporary, finished in the 1770s. Who was this?
Where would you have seen it?
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ANSWERS
Disappearing Head of Voltaire by Dali
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2. What’s missing? What connects these images?
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ANSWERS
Kunal Kamra’s don’t vote Modi campaign.
The fourth photograph was of the Bombay
Stock Exchange
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3. What are these crucial for in cinema?
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ANSWERS
Tracks, for tracking shots
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4
Identify the publisher, and name the periodical that they launched in order to compete
with Nandan, published by the HT Group. Their content promoted rationalism and
breaking away from superstition, in sharp contrast to Nandan’s focus on Indian
mythology.
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ANSWERS
Delhi Press
Champak
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5
Identify artist and the object of curiosity here.,
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ANSWERS
Da Vinci and the Camera Obscura
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UNITHREE
PHASE FOUR
NO QUARTER GIVEN
6 WRITTEN X10 POINTS EACH
STAKE +5/+10 FOR EQUAL NEGS
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2. Legendary location.
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6. Historical incident or its consequence.
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ANSWERS
1. GETTYSBURG
2. ELLIS ISLAND
3. BRISTLECONE PINES/METHUSELAH
4. HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES
5. SARATOGA
6. THE DEFENCE OF FORT
McHENRY/STAR SPANGLED BANNER
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UNITHREE
PHASE FIVE
ANTICLOCKWISE
10 X10 POINTS EACH
Pounce 10+/-5
Complete answers necessary for pounce
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1
The original X was an appreciative 2012 mash up on a T-shirt that was banned at the last
minute in order not to give offence. The X seen here was a hostile but opportunistic
spinoff in another context.
What 2012 mash-up is this? Where did it occur? Where did it travel to? (3+3+4)
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ANSWERS
ObaMao
In China,but travelled to the US where the
ultra-right seized it.
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2
Identify this alliance described by Edward Snowden as a “supra-national organisation
that does not answer to the known laws of its own countries”. It takes its name from a
restrictive information-sharing arrangement.
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ANSWERS
Five Eyes—US, UK, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand
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3.
X is the latest in a line of Y to have Z. Others
include José Manuel Balmaceda and Salvador
Allende; Germán Busch of Bolivia; and Brazil’s
Getúlio Vargas.
Give X, Y and Z. (4+3+3)
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ANSWERS
Alan Garcia of Peru
President/former such in Latin America to
have taken their own lives
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4
Since about February this year, the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation has
focused its energies on a site in Pathum Thani province, north of the capital,.
The enterprise is known to have put them back by $3.1m—it covers 100 square
metres and within the highly secure area, an aeroponic system bathes the area in
pinkish light for up to 20 hours a day.
A batch of 2,500 bottles of sublingual allergy will appear in July as a result.
Which country?
What are they trying to do? (5+5)
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ANSWERS
Thailand
Medical marijuana
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5
In this scene from a national epic, a mermaid is sent to prevent X from completing a task,
but ends up falling in love. The work itself fuses two familiar words—the protagonist’s
name and the word for fame.
Identify the work, and the country (3+2).
Also who is X? What is the mermaid supposed to prevent? (2+3)
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ANSWERS
Ramker, derived from Rama Kirti
Cambodia
Hanuman
The mermaid is supposed to prevent him
from crossing to Lanka.
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6
In 2017, this gentleman re-renacted a moment from 40 years ago that resulted in his
country being occupied by a foreign power for more than ten years. They finally left
in 1989.
Who? What is he re-enacting? What did this act lead to? (3+3+4)
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ANSWER
Hun Sen, crossing over to Vietnam from
Cambodia.
Vietnam invaded, bringing down Pol Pot.
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7
Yama Zatdaw was an import brought back to X either by
sculptors hired to work in Bagan or as the aftereffect of an
invasion of Siam by Alaungapaya.
What is Yama Zatdaw? From what familiar source does the
suffix derive? (5+5)
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ANSWER
Dance-drama based on the Ramayana.
(Ravana is called Yavana here)
Zatdaw is said to be a corruption of Jataka
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8.
This graph depicts a particular fall in the last 100-odd years, from 169 to about 40. Some
specific incidents have been hidden.
What does the graph represent? Name any two of the missing events.
(5+3+2)
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ANSWER
Decline in monarchies
1. Russian Revolution
2. Iranian Revolution
3. Massacre of the Nepalese Royal Family
by Dipendra in 2001.
ANY TWO
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9
Theophrastus coined a word derived from the Greek for to lick. He applied to phenomena
found on rock and on trees, and the form he created meant ‘ to eat around itself’.
The curious dual nature of this phenomenon was explained centuries later in 1867 by
Simon Schwendener.
The sense of consumption was later borrowed to describe a certain set of skin diseases.
What term did Thephrastus coin?
What discovery did Schwendener make?
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ANSWER
Lichen
That they were a symbiosis between fungus
and alga
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10.
The London Transit Workers Study was conducted by Jeremy
N. Morris, a British epidemiologist in the late 1940s and early
’50s.
It laid the scientific groundwork for something that is part of
the urban lifestyle across the world. He was awarded an IOC
medal for his work in 1972.
What did his study conclude? What developed as a result
of the study?
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ANSWER
He compared conductors
and bus-drivers, and found
that heart disease was more
common amongst the latter
because they had a more
sedentary routine.
Aerobics is said to have its
origins in his ideas.
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UNITHREE
PHASE SIX
SNOWBALL
5X10 POINTS EACH
IF THEY PASS, THEY GATHER +1 EACH TIE
NO POUNCE
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1
What specifically would the letters AQ lead to
if you were emoji-minded, on most platforms?
The shape of at least one letter is crucial as a
visual cue. The other signposts the name.
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ANSWER
Antarctica or the Flag of Antarctica
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ANSWER
Connect: Majlis
Owaisi is from the Majlis Ittehadul
Muslimeen
Oxford and Cambridge had student societies
for South Asians known as the Majlis.
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3
Identify and Connect.
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ANSWER
Connect:Bombay in the title
Bombay Velvet
Bombay Talkie by Merchant-Ivory
Humma sequence from Manirathnam’s
Bombay
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4
Identify and connect
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ANSWER
Winona Ryder
Gary Cooper
Connect: Both named after American
towns—Gary, Indiana and Winona,
Minnesota.
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5. Just give the one-word title for this non-fiction work.
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UNITHREE
PHASE SEVEN
MEAT IS MEET
5X10 POINTS EACH
Stake 10+/-5 for equal negs
Complete answers for pounce
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1
X is from Turkish, Y is Persian in origin.
The words mean the same—a sharp, pointed object.
X sounds like an sound made in disappointment, or perhaps a minced oath.
Y sounds like it is fashionable, or like you want to learn, depending on how
you aspirate.
Give X and Y.
Order is important.
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2
X
Dhal
Baccha paal
Is apparently a common expression among Bangalore Muslims.
The X is also present in the visuals below. Identify X.
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3. This ad for Athena, a meat major, features a distinctive cut cooked in Italian, specifically
Florentine style. The cut has a generic name X derived from a visible shape. The Italian
word for this preparation Y comes from the corruption of an English word Z. Give X, Y
and Z. (5+3+2)
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4
In Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala, these spare parts X and Y, sourced from the goat, are
referred to by metaphors signifying rock and mud. Y is sometimes also referred to by a
name meaning ‘stick-to-the-wall’ in Tamizh.
Give English names for X and Y, both closely associated organs in anatomy. The
pictures are of Y, raw and cooked.
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5
The X and Y of the previous question are combined into one lethal, sticky preparation
that is actually meatball, but is called Batti Chutney because X and Y are crushed
together.
Which Karnataka Bahujan community is known for this combinatory dish? If
you can hear the clock ticking, who is the most well-known member of this
community? (5+5)
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ANSWERS
1. X: SHEESH/SHISH Y: SHEEK/SEEKH
2. PHAAL
3. T-BONE; BISTECCA; BEEFSTEAK
4. LIVER AND SPLEEN
5. IDIGA & DR. RAJKUMAR
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