Cadence Quiz on History, Geography and Current Events

CADENCE: A GENERAL QUIZ
Quizmaster: Ashish Thakur
Technical Support: Chi Chi Panda
Date: November 5, 2014

Remember, remember the fifth of November

Rounds
Prelims
Prelims’ Answers
Infinite Bounce/Pounce
Differential
Long Visual Connect

0.
Identify the missing person (Most Famous person of the group).
• Robert Catesby
• John Wright
• Thomas Wintour
• Thomas Percy
• ___________
• Robert Keyes
• Thomas Bates
• Robert Wintour
• Christopher Wright
• John GrantAmbrose Rookwood
• Sir Everard Digby
• Francis Tresham

Guy Fawkes
Members of the Gunpowder Plot

1.
• If the rugby team of New Zealand in known as ‘All
Blacks’, what’s the nickname of their basketball
team?

4.
• In the movie ‘Die Another Day’, reportedly 20
companies, paid $70 million to have their products
featured in the film, a record at that time (2002).
The amount of product placement in the film was a
point of criticism, specifically from various news
outlets such as the BBC, Time and Reuters who all
used the pun “ “ .
• Fill in the blanks.

5*.
• “X Scheme” was introduced by the State
Government to the Co-operative farmers of
Karnataka. Then the Hon’ble Chief Minister of
Karnataka Sri S.M.Krishna inaugurated the scheme
on 14th of November 2002 and the scheme was
operationalised with effect from 1st June 2003.
The concept of “rural health care scheme” was
initiated by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty of Narayana
Hrudayalaya, Bangalore. “X” is the world's cheapest
comprehensive health insurance scheme, at Rs.10
per month.

6.
• The ____ ______ Foundation is a non-profit
organization in India that runs school lunch programme
across India. The organisation was established in 2000. It was one
of those life-changing encounters of His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada when he saw a group of children
fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. This heartbreaking
incident brought to fore the determination that: No one within a
ten mile radius of our centre should go hungry. In June 2000, this
inspiration was given the form of ______ ______
Foundation to feed the children of Government schools with a
thoughtful and conscientious vision of “No child in India shall be
deprived of education because of hunger”.
• Hint: Surya had given Draupadi something during the exile of the
Pandavas.
The name of that thing and the name of the organization is
the same.

7.
• X is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs,
whose worship spread throughout the Greco-
Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal
mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature
and magic. She was the friend
of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden,
but she also listened to the prayers of the
wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers.
The name X means “Throne”.
• Hint: The abbreviated name of a terrorist
organization which is often in news these days.

8.
Complete the list (1 person remaining)
• Ottmar Hitzfeld
• Ernst Happel
• José Mourinho
• Jupp Heynckes
• ____________

Carlo Ancelotti
Managers to win UEFA Champions League with two
different clubs

9.
• Times Magzine’s list of the 100 most influential
people of the 20th century contained heavyweights
such as Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra.
• The person I’m talking about, let us call him/her X,
was also on that list, and was the only person of
his/her kind to make the cut. X was labeled as an
‘underachiever’ by authority figures during
childhood, and was prankster-in-chief back in
elementary school. More than once, X has survived
assassination attempts. Give me X.

11.
• The term “Cadence” is associated with which
sport?

12.
What is this list?
• 1994 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• 1995 - Chandra Shekhar
• 1996 - Somnath Chatterjee
• 1997 - Pranab Mukherjee
• 1998 - S. Jaipal Reddy
• 1999 - Lal Krishna Advani
• 2000 - Arjun Singh
• 2001 - Jaswant Singh
• 2002 - Manmohan Singh
• 2003 - Sharad Pawar
• 2004 - Sushma Swaraj
• 2005 - P. Chidambaram
• 2006 - Mani Shankar Aiyar
• 2007 - Priyaranjan Das
Munshi
• 2008 - Mohan Singh
• 2009 - Murli Manohar Joshi
• 2010 - Arun Jaitley
• 2011 - Karan Singh
• 2012 - Sharad Yadav

Winners of “Best Parliamentarian Award”

13.
• What’s so special about these stamps?

First postage stamps ever to be issued by India Post
to commemorate FIFA World Cup

14.
• Draupadi once plucked a low-hanging fruit from a rose apple tree. As
soon as she plucked it, the tree spoke, "This fruit has been hanging for
the last 12 years. It was being reserved for the Rishi who has been
performing meditation for as many years and he was going to finally
open his eyes later today. He was supposed to eat this fruit, his first
meal in the last 12 but now you have contaminated it. He will go hungry
now and you will earn the demerit for this deed". Drauapdi calls out to
her husbands and seeks help but no one can fix the fruit back to the
tree. This is when the tree states that if you had the power of chastity,
then you could have done it yourself. Draupadi was surprised and she
states that she is completely faithful to her five husbands. The tree
accuses her that she loves someone else. Draupadi states that she loves
Krishna but only as a friend or a brother but never as a lover. The tree
states again that there is someone else. This when Draupadi confesses,
• "I love X. If I had married him, I would not have been gambled away,
publicly humiliated and called a whore.”
• ID X.

15*.
• ID the movie from its minimal poster.

16.
• Who are these people?

17.
• The Eisner Awards are considered the highest prize
in the field of American comic books, and are given
away at the annual 'Comic-Con' in San Diego.2014's
award for Best Digital Comic went to a website
(known for its comics) run by Matthew Inman, who
named it after something he didn't particularly like
eating.
Which website?

19.
• This Cricket match was played in September 2014.
Identify both the teams in the video.

Vatican City & Church of England

20*.
• Identify the tournament.

21.
• Identify the organization.

Rules
• +10/-5 on pounce.
• +10 on IB.
• For the first six questions IB will go clockwise, for the
next six counterclockwise.

1.
• These pictures are from a recently concluded event.
ID the event.

World First Nomad Games held in Kyrgyzstan in
September 2014

2.
• ID the connection among these logos.

Logos of Wikipedia’s Sister Projects

3.
• In the 17th century, this structure formed the northern
boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. In the
1640s basic picket and plank fences denoted plots and
residences in the colony. Later, on behalf of the Dutch
West India Company, construction of a stronger
stockade was done. A strengthened 12-foot (4 m)
structure of timber and earth, fortified by palisades,
was created by 1653 . It was created, and strengthened
over time, as a defense against attack from various
native tribes. In 1685 surveyors laid out the present
structure along the lines of the original stockade.
What structure which has also “crashed" many times?

4.
Find the missing one.
• Edward Donne
• Bill Fairbanks
• Jack Mason
• Scarlett Papava
• Stuart Thomas
• Alec Trevelyan
• _____ ______
• Bill
• Unknown
• John Wolfgramm
• Cederic
• Sam Johnston
• Briony Thorne
• The list is somewhat incomplete but there are enough hints.

James Bond
List of “Double O” Agents

5.
• X is a large electronic music festival held in Belgium.
It used to be organized as a joint venture by the
original founders together with ID&T. The festival
takes place in the town of Boom, 16 kilometers south
of Antwerp, 32 kilometers north of Brussels, and has
been organized since 2005.
X has since become one of the most notable global
music festivals.

6.
• The X laws were racial segregation laws enacted
between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the
state and local level. They mandated racial
segregation in all public facilities in Southern states
of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a
"separate but equal" status for African
Americans. Some examples of X laws were the
segregation of public schools, public places and
public transportation, and the segregation of
restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for
whites and blacks.

7.
• X was an English professional association
football club from south-west London. Founded in
1889, the club spent most of its history in amateur
and semi-professional non-League football before
being elected to the Football League in 1977 and
reaching the First Division in 1986. The club moved
to Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire in 2003, and
became Milton Keynes Dons in June 2004.
ID X.

8.
• The first map to be produced by them was called "The
Western Theatre of War" and served as a reference for
overseas military personnel and soldiers' families alike. On
some occasions, the maps archives have been used by the
United States government in instances where its own
cartographic resources were limited. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's White House map room was filled with maps
from them.
A map of Europe produced by them was used by Churchill
at the Yalta Conference where the Allied leaders divided
post-war Europe.
Who "also" produced these maps?

9.
• What is being performed by the “All Blacks” in the
video?

Haka
A haka is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge of
the Māori people of New Zealand which the New Zealand
national rugby union team, the "All Blacks", and a number of
other New Zealand national teams perform before their
international matches.

10.
• X is a word of Madras Bashai, a salng of Tamil language
spoken in Chennai. The word is from English.
During East India Company rule, official communication
was stamped “X" meaning "On Company's Service" and
exempted from postage charges or stamps.
The word “X" means something which is offered free-of-cost.
Identify X.

“O.C.” meaning “On Company’s Service”

11
• 'X' was a British diplomat and civil servant of colonial British
India. Among his numerable works is the negotiations with
Abdur Rehman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan in 1893 on
boundary issues. The territorial exchanges were amicably
agreed upon; the relations between the British Indian and
Afghan governments, as previously arranged, were confirmed;
and an understanding was reached upon the important and
difficult subject of the borderline of Afghanistan on the east,
towards India, leading to the formation of 'Y'. 'X' is also
credited for the institution of 'Z', a recreational tournament
for British troops in India, in 1888. This induced a tradition
which continues to be followed today. Deservedly both 'Y' and
'Z' are named after 'X'.
Identify X, Y & Z.

X → Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
Y → Durand Line
Z → Durand Cup

12.
• X is a Nguni Bantu term roughly translating to "human
kindness." It is an idea from the Southern African region
which means literally "human-ness," and is often
translated as "humanity toward others," but is often used
in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a
universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
Defence lawyer Barry Roux asked judge Thokozile
Masipa to consider the South African principle of “X",
roughly translated as kindness towards others, in her
sentencing. (Oscar Pistorious Trial)

14.
• What unique achievement is being held only by
these four teams?

These teams have won all three main UEFA club
competitions.
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Europa League

15.
• A very bad question but for TATA Crucible
enthusiasts…
What is the nationality of Cyrus Pallonji Mistry?

16.
• Which event being shown in the video?

Unveiling of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Logo
The official emblem of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia was
unveiled by the cosmonauts at the International Space Station.
The logo was then projected onto the iconic Bolshoi Theater
building in the heart of Russian capital, Moscow.

17.
• X festival is a month-long Hindu festival that is held once
every five years at the X temple of Bariyarpur, in Bara
District, Nepal by mostly Indian immigrants and
madheshi people.
The event involves the world's third largest sacrificial
slaughter of animals including water buffaloes, pigs,
goats, chicken and pigeons – with the goal of pleasing X,
the goddess of power.
The festival will begin on November 28, 2014.
Identify X.

18
• In Oct 2014, the British TV series "Top Gear" team
were forced to leave this country where they were
shooting. Angry crowds had thrown stones at them,
and 'certain veterans' held strikes outside their hotel.
This fuss was over the number plate of the team's
Porsche, which read "H982 FKL".
Which country, and what was the problem?

Argentina is the country - many felt that "H982 FKL"
was a clear reference to the Falkland War (1982) which
the Argentines lost to the British. And Top Gear being
British worsened the situation.

19.
• X was conceived by architect and graphic designer Richard
Saul Wurman, who observed a convergence of the fields of
technology, entertainment and design. The first conference,
organized by Harry Marks and Wurman in 1984, featured
demos of the Sony compact disc, and one of the first
demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer. The event
was financially unsuccessful; it took six years before the
second conference was organized.
In 2000, Wurman, looking for a successor at age 65, met with
new-media entrepreneur and X enthusiast Chris Anderson to
discuss future happenings. In November 2001, Anderson's
non-profit ‘The Sapling Foundation’ became the owner of X.
Identify X.

20.
• “I see no need for any further evolution on my behalf. I have humans
for that. Their technologies and modernisation should take care of
everything. Too many of my relatives can't see past their whiskers in
believing that the primary responsibility of humans is to keep us in
the style to which we ought to be accustomed. I however regard
that as secondary to their wider responsibilities in advancing our
species. There are inconvenient hitches of course. Today for one. On
a day when, at long last, the sun has succeeded in lightening Berlin's
sludge of a sky I have been removed from my warming window sill
and deposited in a box. My midmorning snooze was interrupted
without so much as a please or a thank you and I was transported in
an undignified, dangling midriff lift into the chilly laboratory and
dumped askew into a second-hand, cardboard box.”
This the first paragraph of a story by Glynne MacLean, titled
Viennese ________. The story was published on January 31, 2009.
Who is the narrator?

1.
• 'Orient Airways', was registered in Calcutta on 23
October 1946. In February 1947, the airline bought 3
DC-3 airplanes from a company in Texas and
obtained a license to fly in May of the same year. The
airline started its operations in June, offering services
from Kolkata to Sittwe and Yangon. This was the first
post second-world-war airline flight by a South Asian
registered airline company.
How is this airline better known?

Rules
• 2n + 5 marking scheme.
• “n” is the number of teams not/incorrectly
answering.

1.
• It is a well known fact that Coca Cola’s recipe is a well
guarded trade secret, and if rumors are to be believed, only
two executives from the company are told the formula, with
some even claiming that each knows only one half. Despite
this utter secrecy, in the early 1900s, a gentleman from
Atlanta, where the headquarters of the company were
based, was allowed to have knowledge of all the ingredients
and the exact recipe to make a bottle of Coke, after he
wrote a letter to the company asking for the same. This
makes it perhaps the first and only incident that the formula
was divulged to someone outside the company. All of this
happened for a very specific reason.
Why was this done, and why did the gentleman seek
permission?

In the early 1930s Tobias Geffen, an Orthodox rabbi,
began to receive a steady stream of letters from
rabbis across the United States asking whether Coca-
Cola was kosher. Coke was a popular beverage
among Jews, and rabbis were worried. Mr. Geffen
asked for permission to check whether Coke was
kosher, and the company complied, given that it had
a large Jewish consumer base.

2.
ID the funda.
1.Ealing Art College, Art/Design.
2.Imperial College London, Physics and Maths.
3.London Hospital Medical College, Biology.
4.Chelsea College London, Electronics.

Queen members’ degrees and their colleges.
Freddie Mercury : Ealing, Art & Design
Brian May : Imperial College, Physics and Math
Roger Taylor : London Hospital, Biology
John Deacon : Chelsea, Electronics

3.
• X was very good in Astrology. Duryodhana, on the
advice of Shakuni approached X in order to seek
the right time (muhurta) to start the Mahabharata
war so that the Kauravas will be victorious.
X disclosed the same for the Kauravas in spite of
knowing that Kauravas were their enemy, as X was
known to be very honest. The flag of X's chariot
bore the image of a silver swan.

4.
• The X World Cup has been held every four years
since 1473. The competition sees X teams
representing countries around the world compete
for the World Cup. In the 1994 edition, the English,
Scottish and Welsh fared very badly, while the Irish
outperformed them. In the 2006 edition, France
were the losing finalists. Moldova won
against China in 2010. Bulgaria beat Brazil, 170-60
in 2014.

5.
• X is a start-up toy company using dolls and apps to empower
girls to dream big and achieve. It's a line of dolls being
developed by Supriya Hobbs, a 22-year-old who graduated
from the University of Illinois in May with a degree in chemical
engineering, and Janna Eaves, a 21-year-old senior at the
school who is majoring in materials science and engineering.
This summer the duo launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise
the funds needed to produce the first batch of dolls. They
smashed their $75,000 fund-raising goal and will now begin
production on the Marie Curie doll.
• Once the Marie Curie doll is available online in 2015, the X’s
team plans to add a diverse lineup of STEM heroines to its
roster—women such as computer programmer Ada Lovelace
and African American aviator Bessie Coleman.

6.
• Shown here is the cover of “Psmith, Journalist”, a novel
by PG Wodehouse, which continues the adventures of
his much loved character, Psmith. Famous in its own
right, what is perhaps its (probably inadvertent) most
famous impact on popular culture?

"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,"
murmured Psmith.

7.
• Maurice Tillet was a Russian born French professional
wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel.
Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and
was twice recognized world heavyweight champion by the
American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in
Boston.
There have been rumours that the ogre from the X film
series was modeled after Tillet.
Image on the next slide.

8.
• X is a chain of British supermarkets, which forms
the food retail division of Britain's largest
employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis
Partnership. Its head office is located in Bracknell,
Berkshire, England. As of February 2014, X has 317
branches across the United Kingdom.
The company has a royal warrant to supply
groceries, wine, and spirits to Queen Elizabeth II
and, as of 1 January 2011, to Prince Charles.

Current sponsor of the England Cricket Team

9.
• Young Bosnia was a revolutionary movement active
before World War I. The members were predominantly
school students. It included primarily Serbs but also
Bosniaks and Croats.
• Gavrilo Princip, Young Bosnia member.
Why is he so famous?

He assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
which led to the First World War.

10.
• This European chocolate and confectionary brand's
tagline in English is "Sweet mark of quality". It gets
its name from the last name of its founder who is
currently the head of state of his country.
Name the brand and its founder.

11.
• X was an English-language Web-based
encyclopedia whose articles were written by
volunteer contributors with appropriate subject
matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before
publication and licensed as free content. It was
founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten
by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. X
lasted from March 2000 until September 2003.
It is mostly known now as the predecessor
of Wikipedia.

12.
• For the first time in club’s history, FC Barcelona
didn’t wear their home kit, against Athletic Bilbao
at Camp Nou on September 13.
Why?

To support Catalonia Independence Movement.
Their yellow and red change kit features the colours
of the Catalan flag, the Senyera.

1.
• The 1993 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was given to X Company of
the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a
millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning
number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously
expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions
together for the first time in their nation's history.
The company had announced that anyone holding a bottle
cap marked 349 had won up to 1 million pesos, about
$40,000, tax-free.
Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000
bottle caps marked 349 had been printed and tens of
thousands of Filipinos soon began demanding billions of
dollars that X refused to pay.

2.
• Where? (Specific Answer Required)

Old Trafford (in memory of the Munich air disaster)

Rules
• There are four slides in total.
• No marks for individual identification.
• Specific answer required.

Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement
The Red Lion with Sun
The Red Crystal
The Red Crescent
The Red Cross

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