ASHOKA AUDIO VISUAL QUIZ FINALS

Format

• 2 rounds of Dries (10 questions each)

• 2 written theme rounds

• Thas all!

• Let the games begin!

THEME - I

• 5 audio clips

• Indian tributes to famous themes

• +10 for each correct answer

• +10 for all correct

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EXCHANGE!

ANSWERS

ANSWERS

• Sherlock

• Game of Thrones

• Harry Potter

• Pirates of the Carribean

• Interstellar

INFI POUNCE - I

CLOCKWISE

+10/-10 ON THE POUNCE

+10/0 ON THE BOUNCE

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• Who lived in this building in London during the 1920s? Who is the current owner?

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ANSWER

• Ambedkar; Government of Maharashtra

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• To take this photo, Philipp Shmidli from Lucerne waited for 4 months. After bad weather thwarted his attempts to take the picture in January, February and March, the persevering photographer finally took the photo in the 3rd week of April.

• He was lucky enough for the weather to clear over his chosen scene just as the _____ cycle reached its April climax. He spent hours of exploration on Google Earth, searching for the perfect location on which to frame the image, and from which to shoot it.

• Since _____ changes its relative position every month it meant that for every attempt foiled by the weather Mr Schmidli had to plan a new shoot in the next month.

• And in order to have the desired effect, Mr Schmidli needed a large gap between the camera and the hill with no trees, fences, telephone or power lines in the way.

• Which famous scene was he trying to recreate?

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ANSWER

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• This is a NASA satellite image taken on 24 September 2015. Put funda.

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ANSWER

• Haze over South East Asia

4 Whose playlist?

• This playlist was a part of a series of celebrity playlists, put together for the launch of Myspace's UK site. Most of the playlist features expected tracks such as Mozart's "Don Giovanni," but things get interesting with the inclusion of Tupac's "Changes," and Muse's "Uprising."

• _____ explained the choices at the time as “A perfect mix of classical, world and contemporary music. The genres are very different form each other, but all these artists share the aim to reach the heart of good minded people.”

• "Advocata Nostra" – X• "Uprising" – Muse• "Causa Nostrae Laetitiae" – X• "Il Mare Mi Salva" – Rossomalpelo• "After The Rain" – Dame Shirley Bassey• "Coexist" – Nour Eddine• "Don Giovanni" – Mozart• "He Doesn’t Know Why" – Fleet Foxes• "Changes" – Tupac Shakur• "Regina Coeli" – X

• Whose playlist is this?

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ANSWER

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Give the name of this monument located in the southern part of the Czech Republic.

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ANSWER

• IRON CURTAIN

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• The VP of the company was quoted saying, “This is a product we’d LOVE to bring to India soon – X Water Purifier. Just declared today, it makes tap water filtered with Reverse Osmosis (RO), is supercompact, shows real-time water quality, and reminds you on your smartphonewhen it’s time to replace the filter.”

• ID the company.

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ANSWER

• Xiaomi

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• The man in the chair X was born on December 5, 1927. Rumors about his ill-health caused financial markets in _____ to tumble in October 2009. Although he is a little ill, he has been very much alive for a long time now.

• ID X and what unique distinction does he have now?

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ANSWER

• Bhumibol Adulyadej; King of Thailand

• Longest reigning monarch as of now

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• X and the award-winning Japanese electronics company OnkyoCorporation have revealed the name of their new on-ear headphone collaboration, Ed-Ph0n3s.

• Earlier this year, a visual mock-up of the headphones was displayed on X's iconic mascot Y at C.E.S in Las Vegas, sparking huge international interest among the attendees.

• Onkyo's engineers have worked with X to 'fine tune' the product. They made the production samples available exclusively at IFA in Berlin for people to touch, hold and test out the sound. (Image on the next slide)

• ID X.

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ANSWER

• IRON MAIDEN

9

• The old logo of X uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB (2,145 bytes).

• A simplified version of the new logo, on the other hand, can be constructed almost entirely from circles and rectangles. The entire logo consists of:

• 10 circles,5 rectangles and 1 shape made with 7 anchor points. The size of the new logo is close to 305 bytes

• ID X.

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ANSWER

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• Kim Phuc, born in 1963 in _______ now lives in Toronto with her family. She recently went to Miami to get a free course of laser treatment to her skin condition.

• She has been living like this for more than 40 years and this treatment now is expected to put an end to her chronic pain.

• What had happened to her? (Image next slide)

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ANSWER

• Napalm effect. Vietnam girl.

THEME ROUND - II

• 10 Visiting cards.

• 5 points for each.

• +10 bonus for all correct

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ANSWERS

EXCHANGE!

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger

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• ALBERT EINSTEIN

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• LADY GAGA

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• HARRY HOUDINI

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• ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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• BARACK OBAMA

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• WALT DISNEY

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• ANDY WARHOL

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• WRIGHT

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• MARK ZUCKERBERG

SCORES

INFI BOUNCE - II

COUNTER CLOCKWISE

+10/-10 ON THE POUNCE

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• The name of this product is _____ which is a play on what it produces and the place this product is meant to be used at.

• Give me the name for full points.

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ANSWER

• ISSPRESSO

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• This photo was shot in Australia in 2006. Weave a story about this.

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ANSWER

• Tommie Smith and John Carlos at Peter Norman’s funeral in Australia.

• Black Power Salute, 1968 Olympics, Mexico.

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• In late 1920s, X was being marketed by maker X Incorporated and distributor Lehn & Fink, Inc as a feminine hygiene product. They pronounced that vaginal douching with a diluted X solution prevented infections and vaginal odour and thereby preserved youth and marital bliss. The same solution was also used as birth control agent, as post-coital douching was a popular method of preventing pregnancy at that time.

• The use of X was later discouraged by the medical community as it tended to eliminate the bacteria normal to healthy vagina, thus allowing more robust health threatening bacteria to thrive.

• X is now used for a different purpose altogether. (Image next slide)

• ID X.

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ANSWER

• Lysol

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• This is a picture of a razor wire. Of late, German companies like Mutanox have refused to sell this item to the Hungarian government forgoing profits to the tune of 0.5 million Euro for a specific reason.

• Why?

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ANSWER

These razor wires were used in fences that often wounded refugees and prevented them from crossing the boundary.

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• What has been depicted in the painting?

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ANSWER

• Hell. Court of Yama.

• ID the river, anyone?

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• Ida May Fuller was born on a farm in Vermont in 1874. She spent much of her life there, workingas a legal secretary and later retired in 1939. She died in January, 1975, at age 100.

• She later said,"It wasn't that I expected anything, mind you, but I knew I'd been paying for something called _______ and I wanted to ask the people in Rutland about it.” (Image)

• What did she become famous for?

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ANSWER

• First person to receive the cheque for social security.

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• An ambitious team of architects and structural engineers is campaigning to raise funds for building something. Their goal is to raise £1.85 Billions within 60 days.

• They say, "We all share a love of ______'s work, and a desire to challenge the common perception of community and architecture. We believe that, in realising X, we could create not only the most remarkable tourist attraction on the planet, but also a wonderfully unique place to live and work. We'd love to create both residential and commercial properties, allowing for sustainable growth and a high quality of life. Residential properties would be categorised by tier, quality and size. Tiers vary from 1-5, quality varies from 2-5 stars, with the higher star denoting higher quality, and size varies from 1-4 bedrooms. A "3.4.2 property", for instance, would be located in the 3rd tier of the city, be of a 4 star quality and have 2 bedrooms - perfect for a young family."

• ID X.

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ANSWER

• Minas Tirith

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• This has an average blade length of around 12 inches.

• The blades are often completely blunt.

• It gained popularity in Napolean's France for a very specific purpose.

• What is it used for? (image on the next slide)

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ANSWER

• Opening champagne bottles

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• Lucky Diamond Rich, born in 1971, is a performance artist, street performer, and international arts festival performer whose act includes sword swallowing and juggling a variety of items while on a unicycle.He has held the certified Guinness World Record since 2006 for a very specific reason. Kya hai?

(image on the next slide)

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ANSWER

• Only person to have his entire body tattooed.

• Like 100%.

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• Sesame Street Parody of which famous personality?

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ANSWER

• Donald Trump

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